he does the top of the hour i'm brianna skeerl. in moments president biden and vice-president kamala harris will visit the cdc as they set guidelines for reopening schools safely. one big change is the six feet of social zanlsing is becoming three for elementary school students. for middle school children and older in communities with higher transmission rates, six feet is still recommended. and moments ago, the cdc director emphasized masks are a must no matter the age of the student. >> i want to emphasize that these recommendations are specific to students in classrooms with universal mask wearing. cdc continues to recommend at least six feet of distance between teachers and staff and other adults in the school buildings and between the adults and students. >> let's go to atlanta now where cnn's jeff zeleny is. we know, jeff that the president and vice-president use the time in atlanta to meet with asian-american leaders following that devastating shooting spree that killed eight people including six asian women. who exactly are the president and vice-president meeting with? >> well, brianna, president biden and vice-president harris will be on the camp of emery university meeting with asian leaders several state legislators as well pb the rising flikting influence here in georgia makes it about 3% of the population. they were critical in the election and they are speaking out very forcefully about the horrific shootings earlier this week but the president and vice-president will be sitting down with the community leaders to hear about the rising violent cases long before the shootings. and they are calling for the white house to draw more attention to this. there's been much discussion about is this a hate crime? is this not a hate crime? the white house stopped short of saying it is. officials tell me one reason they do that is they do not want to interfere in the investigation of the case. but the -- there are other officials saying this should be investigated as a hate crime. that is one certainly point of discussion. but first and foremost, as the white house is drawing attention to the rising episodes of violence really over the last year in the pandemic, targeting asian-americans. that is what president biden and vice-president harris are doing here. certainly interrupting their previously scheduled trip really throwing out the schedule. they were going to be here to talk about the covid relief bill to tout the benefits of that. that rally was postponed. >> jeff i'm going of you pause a moment so we can listen to to the cdc director. >> we invigorated our whole of government response. it reinvigorated me perm and this entire agency. your support for cdc is so important to the hundreds of cdc staff and leaders listening today into this session. cdc has a long history of leading our nation through unprecedented public health challenges. we are so grateful for your working so hard, fighting to provide the critical resources we need to end this pandemic. as you know, cdc has provided substantial support for vaccination implementation, which is achieving increasing number of shots in arms week by week and doing so in an equitable way. today, day 58, we hit our goal of 100 million vaccinations in arms. i'm so energized by the future. and yet we still have so much more work to do. while you're here i'd like to give you a few updates regarding some of our other covid-19 response activities. those you may be less familiar with. first, dr. henry wak, the tireless and completely unflappable incident manager will give as you brief update on the state of the pandemic and the cdc response and then dr. lan landers. chief equity officer will talk about some of the early community-based engagements supporting our response. with that, thank you. and i will turn it over to dr. wok. >> thank you dr. walensky. wow what a pleasure. thank you for coming and welcome to the cdc. before i get started i had the pleasure trl to speak here. but there are responders in this room and thousands of responders on the phone who really have worked tirelessly, worked hard, sacrificed and their families have surprised as well. i really want to acknowledge that. i want to go over three slides with you. this one is looking at cases per 100,000 population. and it's in the -- in a pattern of the u.s. so each p. o. box -- the small box is a state or a jurisdiction. so maine is up here. florida is here. alaska on the top left there. california on the top -- on the lower left. and then puerto rico and the virgin islands here in the ocean somewhere. so on the x axis of each box is cases per 100,000. and on the y axis is case per 100,000 opinion then time. over 30 days. the colors are really indicating the level of transmission. red and orange, high levels, alarming of transmission. yellow and blue are more reassuring. so a couple of things to point out here. one is there is a lot of red. there is a lot of orange. still a lot of transmission throughout the country at the moment. but you'll see in the northeast region over time really high elevation of case rates and sustained over time. if we look at new york city and new york or rhode island we have high case rates that are maintained over time. versus the southeast, georgia and south carolina have high rates but in the last two weeks we see a decline. oregon, over there is in the yellow and then california, the rates are lower and continue to come down. so there is a lot of regional variability across the country. and we're tracking this and reaching out to individual states as we see increases. also, lately, in the past week and a half michigan and minnesota start to have a slight increase in case rates. and so we are reaching out to those states trying to understand what's happening and see if we can help them more. let's move to this one, the community transmission levels. that's by state and territory. this is by county. so on the y axis we have over 3,000 counties in the country. so that's -- of counties. and then on the x axis we have time from january 2020 to march of 2021. and the colors here are similar to the other slide. red and orange are alarming. yellow and blue are reassuring. and so you'll see in terms of counties low transmission -- and this community transmission, i should say, also includes cases per 00,000 but also percent positivity. so in each county of all the tests done percent with positive. 10%, 2%, 10%. and we come up with the transmission level. the good news is it's going down over here. here is where we are now. but your eyes follow the contour of the red you see the three peaks of the epidemic in the u.s. now we have about 27% of counties in the u.s. are moderate or low. and that continues to increase every week. this is important to us, because we connect these community transmission levels to our guidance. so we released -- or updated our k-12 guidance. allowing at least three feet in the classroom for children. but as community transmission levels increase we have additional recommendations. and more testing of teachers and staff and students. as well as more restrictions around extracurricular activities, because we have seen a lot of outbreaks basically with sports in schools. the last slide i wanted to talk about is this one. and you may have heard a lot about variants. and the virus that causes covid-19 continues to mutate. and some of the mutations are worrisome. and so we've been following the mutations over time. and some of the mutations may affect vaccine efficacy. therapeutics, whether or not they are effective. ands are tests, are they useful or not? and we're tracking using whole again only sequencing the variants across the country and trying to escalate and expand the capacity now and hope a lot more capacity in the future. so the just looking -- this is nationwide. we are looking at variants nationwide. so this is -- we are looking on the y axis is the variant share. on the x axis is week. this is time zero today. we are looking back six weeks, 12 weeks, so this is -- this is three months ago. so three months ago this variant in her teal let's call it b 1.2 was wild type. so circulating in the u.s. a long time. but you see it's being replaced with in variant in olive here, the b. 1117. this is the one we are concerned about in the uk and europe, more transmissible and infectious. we're in a race with our vaccination rates. our mitigation continuing to mask and distance as we get this type of emerging variant like b. 117. we think b. 117 will be the predominant variant in the u.s. by the end of this month, march. here in region 2 i wanted to show the variability in the regions. region 2 includes new york and new jersey primarily. in region 2 we see a pattern where this is wild type many placed by b. 117 but in orange there is another variant. b. 1526. why is this important? because -- so you me it's a pretty substantial proportion now. this -- this particular variant is resistant against one of our monoclonals, one of our drugs that we are using for therapeutics to treat. so right now we are discussing within the u.s. government -- big u.s. government. >> make it clear it's the therapeutic not the vaccine. because these guys are picking that up. >> so it's a drug, a drug that's used early even before you go into pa hospital one of these drugs that kind of prevent hospitalizations or might prevent death. >> please understand -- i wasn't correcting you i i just know from experience. >> right. >> no, thank you very much. anyway, this one -- the 526 is resistance against one ever the morn cloenl drugs. and we're going to give recommendations around changing to a separate drugs, maybe combination drugs that are -- that will be effective against this particular variant. so i just want to end there. and we can talk more if you have questions. do you have any questions? okay thank you. let me turn it over to dr. rhee bird. >> thank, and let me add my welcome to you president biden and vice-president harris for being with us in this historic moment in public health. it's such an honor. it will in our history forever so thank you for your presence. we observed early in the pandemic that racial and ethnic minority populations were experiencing a disproportionate burden of covid-19, not only infection but also severe illness and death. and so with a mission focused on testing and educating communities about covid-19 and the mitigation measures, last summer we funded three national organizations to accelerate the dissemination or prevention messages in communities of color. and if you look at the full slide, the organizations were the asian and pacific islander american health forum, proceed incorporated, which is a national hispanic and latino-serving organization and the cdc foundation which allowed us to reach historically black colleges and universities and other academic institutions. these organizations were uniquely situated to connect with other national minority organizations that were longstanding institutions in african-american, hipsen and latino. and asian and pacific island are and native american communities. by partnering with just three national organizations and tapping into their networks, we were able to reach early on in the pandemic racial and ethnic mirpt communities in 14 states. and you can see that in the second slide. so with leadership from local organizations, including hbcus we were able to increase access to testing, help community members understand contact tracing, make available more isolation options and increase access to health care, particularly through federally qualified community health centers. and forepersons without a regular source of care. these community partners were able to reach persons, if you look at our third slide, they were able to reach persons with underlying medical conditions, essential and front line workers in addition to health care workers. but restaurant and grocery store workers, construction workers, farm workers. and they were able to reach immigrants and migrants and also to be able to engage early on faith-based organizations. so because of the level of community engagement there was increased language access by translating materials. and we have translated our prechgs messages into dozens of languages prevention messages into dozens of languages. and also using spokespersons who were known and trusted. and then the national organizations and the academic partners were there to ensure that the information was both medically and scientifically sound. i'm sure you're aware that cdc just announced that we will be awarding $2.25 billion to address covid-19 health disparities and communities at high risk for infection and severe illness. and the lessons that we have learned through these projects can be applied to both enhance and accelerate reducing the disparities and the achieving of health equity in underserved populations. >> one of the things that kault my attention, i think we talked about this. very early on within the first six weeks of the virus becoming aware to everybody and people starting to get sick and some of them die. was that i got a call from a mayor, a really great guy, real hard working fellow in detroit, saying to me, mr. president, you don't understand, this is even before i wasn't president then actually. calling me mr. mr. president. he said i don't think people understand. you know, my community is now about 80% african-american. and we're dying and getting sick at a much higher rate than the white community here or any other community. and i brought that up initially before i put together the group that you're leading and helping lead. and no one wanted to hear it. and i remember we had trouble getting your predecessors to track it. but what you're doing really makes a difference makes a gigantic difference as the vice-president knows better than anybody. it really really makes a difference. so thank you. >> thank you. dr. walensky. >> any questions for us. >> no, but why you all standing? that's the first one. you don't have to stand for us. why don't you sit down. get comfortable. they have chairs. they have chairs. but, you know, that's the first question. and the second question is why did only one person clap? i don't know. you know what i mean? [ applause ] >> the reason i do this -- the doc knows we are all too serious here. we owe you a gigantic debt of gratitude and we will for a long, long, long time. because i hope this is the beginning of the end of not paying attention to what's going to come again and again and again and again. we can build all the walls we want. have the most powerful armies in the world but we cannot stop -- we cannot stop these viruss other than be where they are and move quickly on them when we find them. and the one thing that i -- the reason i am so happy to have been able to -- anyway, to have doc here is that science is back. all kidding aside. think about it. for the longest time, not just as it relates to cdc but science -- science was viewed as sort of an appendage to anything else we were talking about. but it's back. and i just want you to have some confidence that it's not only are the president vice-president and i and the whole team and the whole covid team writ large committed, but the american people have moved. the american people have moved. this is a bipartisan effort now. it isn't showing itself in the way senators and congressman vote. but the public -- the public -- we were talking about it on a helicopter -- on the airplane. >> yeah. >> the public and in a bipartisan way when i came up with this $1 the$.9 billion for the covid -- and the economic relief side of it as well, we were told it could never pass. we'd never get any help. well we didn't get any help in the senate or the house. but they have 5 a% of the republicans in america supporting it. you have 90 some% of the democrats. 80 some -- the point is the public is thankful to you. because it's about science. that's what they understand. they understand. and we're not going back to the old days, even if tomorrow the whole administration changed, i think things have -- you've changed things. you've changed them in a way that are going to make everybody healthier in this country. and when we have a crisis you're prepared to meet it. because you speak truth and science to power. >> yes. >> and that is the power. so all the folks listening, i guess you said there is hundreds or if not thousands listening. >> yes. >> thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. there is an entire generation coming up that is learning it from what you've done. i don't just mean learning about how to deal with the virus, learning about it makes a difference to tell the truth, to follow the science, and just wherever it takes you and just be honest about it. that's what you've all done. so we owe you a debt of gratitude for the all the lives you change. i carry in my pocket as doc knows my schedule on the back of my schedule i have listed every single day, the exact number of people who have died from covid the day before i mean cumulative. we're at 535217 dead as of yesterday -- last night. it's got to stop. but you're slowing it. it's stopping. >> yes. >> and it really, really matters. you know that's more people than have died in all of -- americans, all of world war i, world war ii, vietnam war and 9/11 combined. combined. in a year. in a year. and you are the army. you're the navy. you're the marines. you're the coast guard. i really mean it. this is a war. and you are the front line troops. sounds silly to say it that way. sounds sort of grand. but think about it. finally we got the vaccines, we got the companies together and they didn't have the where with alto produce all the vaccines. so the thing called the defense production act. as president i'm allowed to enforce it. so i had people saying stop making that and start making these. we found we put together -- did you ever think you'd see the day because you've been involved in medicine. two major drug companies cooperate for the good of the country? one invent -- one come up with the drug and the other said we'll manufacture for it. so what you're doing really really matters. not only -- and i'll end with this, not holman in saving lives but changing the mindset of the country. changing the mindset of the country. it's affected everything. not just affected people's health. it's affected their attitude. about what we can do as a country. everybody thought that i was didn't quite understand when i announced that we were going -- we had over 100 million shots in less than -- you remember when i said we're going to -- my goal was to have 100 million shots in people's arms in the first 100 days as president. and everybody said, oh that sounds -- yeah, right. it should have been more. why didn't they say more? you know what i mean? but here is the point. the point is that it is changing the way we look at a whole range of things. and when i announced it, everybody but the vice-president wondered why i also pointed out that we landed a rover on mars at the same time. because this is the united states of america, for god sake. there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot do when we do it together. and that's what you're showing everybody. so i came to say thank you. i really mean it. i have a whole lot of nice notes on here about the science. but i came here to say thank you. because you're not only changing the psyche of the country, you're saving lives. you're saving lives. but you're changing the psyche of the country. and this is, as i said -- it's not being -- i don't think i'm being chauvinistic about our country. but think about it. we're the only country in the world that is every time we've gone into a crisis have come out stronger after the crisis than before the crisis. think about it. that's what we are. closing comment. i was with xi jinping from china. i spent more time with him than any other world leader. he was vice-president i was vice-president-elect preponderate his president and mine wanted to get to know one another. because it was clear he was to become the president. i spent 17,000 miles with him in china and the united states and asia generally. i met with him 24 hours with him alone. me and an interpreter and he and an interpreter. by the way, i handed in all my notes. minor point. but all kidding aside, he asked me on the tibetan plateau -- he actually said to me can you define america for me? and i said, yeah. in one word -- and i mean it -- one word. possibilities. possibilities. that's what you guys believe in, possibilities. based on science and hard data. and so i just thank you for not only your intellectual skills but your heart, your heart. your determination. thank you, thank you, thank you. and i shouldn't have done that because i wanted to yield to my vice-president who is smarter than i am. >> there is not much to add to that mr. president. >> no, but i will say that i do believe that this administration with the leadership of our president is without any question about science. and everyone here knows before the president was president he was dedicated to science. the moon shot. and so -- my mother was a scientist. i grew up -- the first job i had little known fact was cleaning pipettes in her lab. i was awful. she fired me. and then there was this moment of global crisis. and the president takes calls with leaders around the world. we talk with people around the world. and they have named their centers ever disease control after this center of disease control. they put their -- the name of their country and they call it cdc. you all are a model for the world around what can be done based on a pursuit of that which will uplift and improve human condition and life. and you guys do this work around the clock. and sober here to say thank you, because it's not easy. you're making difficult decisions right now. some of the most difficult. but you are making those decisions based on science. based on hard work and based on a commitment to the public health. and therein lies the nobility of your work. you do this work on behalf of people you will never meet on behalf of people who will never know your names. because you care about our country. and their well being. so we are here to thank you. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you so very much. >> thank you. >> thank you for your visit. thank you for reinvigorating us. i can promise you as long as this team of people are here as long as i am here, we will bake into the cake of everything we do our commitment to equity, to science and to bring back the health of the american people. >> if you all don't learn to sit you're never going to make it. thank you, thank you, thank you. bottom line. thank you. >> thank you. >> [ applause ] >> i want to bring in -- arbor bring in dr. sanjay gupta. i want to bring in dr. sanjay gupta to talk about some of what we just heard. first off, just what stood out. there is one thing that stood out to me. but i want to know what stood out to you. >> first of all i've been in this sort of command center room many times at the cdc. that's the place where a lot of the planning and preparations go to deal with things like we are experiencing now not just the pandemic but ebola in the past. n 1 h 1 in the past. a few things stood out. i'm curious about you brianna. but he said science is back. that's one of the things he made a point of saying. you got the sense he was rallying the troops in fact sort of referring the doctors and scientists as the army, navy and marines, really sort of talking about the war metaphor. he carries the piece of paper in his pocket with the numbers of people who have died from this pandemic. and you know, just -- i think it shows his commitment. he also made a point of pointing out that -- we talk a lot about the vaccines which are incredible scientific achievements. but also the fact that, you know, merck, typically a competing pharmaceutical company to j&j is now making that vaccine because of the defense production act. so getting pharmaceutical companies to work together, which, you know, you need the sort of crack about that typically doesn't happen it's a competitive industry. but it seemed like a big thank you, frankly, brianna to the cdc. >> yeah, it does. and he also said something about pandemics being more the norm. did you catch that just this idea. >> correct. >> can you speak about that? >> yeah, i mean, everyone is sort of talked about this as a once in a century sort of phenomenon because i think the last pandemic of this magnitude was really back in 1918. but if you start to look at sort of the viral surveillance, the idea that humans are increasingly encroaching on an animal has been i tats. and the jumps from animals to people happen frequently and eem people from the ecoalliance seem to telegraph and communicate to us that this is likely to happen more frequently. hopefully we can be further ahead of it. you know, find the zoo naughtic jvrp early so it doesn't turn into the pandemic. that risk seems high are as the population of the earth expands and enapproaches animal has been i tats it's a concern. >> thank you for touching on that. sand any, great to see you thanks. >> you got it thank you. ahead new details on the investigations into the deadly massage parler shootings in than. one of the husband's says he was detained by authorities and all the while unaware that his wife had been killed. plus former president george w. bush saying the attack on the capitol made him sick to his stomach and he is pushing back on the big lie. >> was the election stolen or not? 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>> we are at the cherokee county sheriff's in canton, georgia as you said not far from acworth where one ever the spa shootings happened and talking about delaina yan one of the four victims from this location. she and her husband were there for massage. and mario gonzalez mere husband spoke to a spanish language newspaper and told them right after the incident he was detained by authorities sitting in the back of a patrol car for some time. it's not clear how long he was detained. but what he told the spanish language newspaper is that they had him in the back of a patrol car until the investigation led them to the suspect and to what happened until finally they gave him news that his wife had died. he told the newspaper when they found out he was delaina's husband they told him she was dead. but he wanted to know before. so it tounds like he was really looking for information about what happened to his wife. and that he had wished that that information was given to him sooner. in this interview that he gave it sounds like he was in a separate spa room from his wife and had heard the gunshots. he was uninjured. and sort of took cover and got out of the situation safely. but he was very concerned whether his wife was safer and looking for that information. so of course very emotional situation for everyone for all the families involved. and we continue to try and reach out to the families and see that they're okay and learn more about the victim stories, brianna. >> yeah, and he is -- he obviously surviving his wife as well as their kids including an 8-month-old. natasha chen thank you so much. what is it like to be asian-american in america right now? cnn asked and asian-americans have answered, sharing stories of hate and racism that they have experienced during the pandemic and in some cases during their entire lives. and the responses are heart breaking. >> it must have been a month after lockdowns in new york city. >> i was going to my car with my cart. >> a lady started following us. >> and this guy this big giant suburban almost ran me over. he didn't -- he didn't yield to me. >> she started screaming things directed at me. >> about all kinds of terrible things. >> go back to china. you're so dirty. >> you f-ing [ bleep ]. >> there was a period of time i didn't want to be asian at all. i wished i was some other race because like -- it's like it's just so -- i feel so sick of being like -- oh, sorry, my gosh -- discriminated against. and back in school actually when i got bullied that too like the whole asian fever, it made me feel gross. like i couldn't be comfortable in my skin. >> joining me now to talk more about this is cnn senior national correspondent kyung lah also a dear friend of mine. kyung i wanted to have you on to talk about this. because we've been talking on the phone at times during the past year about some of the things you have experienced. and so i was hoping we could kind of put that out there so people could hear about some of this. tell us about some of the personal experiences that you have had both as you're traveling to do your job and just as you go about your personal life. >> well, brianna, you grew up with me here at cnn. we figured out what it's like to be an adult in the world here. and i think you have seen it firsthand through my eyes, that when you go to basically anywhere in this country, the assumption that people have about someone who looks like me who has a name like kyung is first of all you don't speak english doesn't matter who is surrounding you. that you may not understand everything that they're saying. any always want to know where i'm from. i'm from cnn, dude, what do you think? and it's -- it is a repeated question. and the way you're treated is that you're not fully american, that even though i speak english perfectly i am indeed american, the assumption is that somehow you are foreign. and that -- this doesn't even touch on the way that men try to sexualize you who don't even know you, who have certain thoughts about you or may say certain things to you. this isn't even touching on what's sent to me on social media and extent to a lot of asian-american journalists and social media. all of this is part of daily life and it's gotten worse in the past year, because people are frustrated. and they feel like they have a villain in some cases. and it is extremely difficult to try to constantly have to explain that you are not foreign. i feel like the exact same things that you feel. and we've got to figure out a solution without villifying people. but it is. it's the set that you don't matter as much and couldn't understand what we feel because of the way you look. >> which, i mean, it's painful as your friend to watch you have interactions like that. especially this last year, though, i think one of the things i've asked you about is your fears, especially because you do have kids. and i wonder what your fierce have been for yourself and if you've had fierce for your kids. >> so the best way to explain -- i think especially if you have grown up in a bilingual, bi cultural home. my parents owned a liquor store in chicago and this felt a lot like being trrnted back into being a little kid behind their counter, that someone might hurt you not because of what you have but because of how you look. and it's a defense that you have feel -- that you want to guard yourself from but you don't know exactly what td. that's -- that's a deep seated childhood fear that i've carried in past year. as far as my kids, it's a tough thing to talk about with your children. and i think any parent of color can, you know, explain this. we've heard a lot of people talking about the talk you have if you're a black parent, the talk you have with your children opinion and in the case of asian parents, you don't really have a language or a way to explain to your children what if feels like to be foreign in your own home. how to feel afraid without acting afraid, without living afraid. there are a good number of asian-americans and blended children who live here in california. it is a very diverse community. in my daughters' school it's a majority asian school because it's a language immerpgs school. and it was a part ever the program at school. it was a part of class that day. >> really? >> because there are so many children who need to have a way to cope with this. and right now we don't exactly have a language to explain that to our children. >> and that is -- you know, that's the sad reality, kyung. but i just -- i appreciate you giving us a glimpse into you know -- normally you report on the news. but i appreciate your sharing your personal story with us today. thank you so much. >> you bet. you bet. any moment now the british prime minister is set to get his first covid shot as the uk considers covid certificates, basically permission slips in order for brittons to attend live evens. plus france and italy bring a fresh round of coronavirus lockdowns as they experience a surge in new infections. ♪ ♪ we made usaa insurance for veterans like martin. when a hailstorm hit, he needed his insurance to get it done right, right away. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa out here, you're more than just a landowner. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. you're a gardener. a landscaper. a hunter. because you didn't settle for ordinary. same goes for your equipment. versatile, powerful, durable kubota equipment. more goes into it. so you get more out of it. i don't like veggies... what?! ♪ whatever you have at home, knorr sides can turn nutritious veggies into mouthwatering meals. ♪ veggies taste amazing with knorr. struggling to manage my type 2 diabetes was knocking me out of my zone, veggies taste amazing but lowering my a1c with once-weekly ozempic® helped me get back in it. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic® ♪ my zone? 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>> i disagree with the premise of your question. if you challenged arizona and pennsylvania, would that have changed and lowered president biden's numbers below 270? >> you supported the texas lawsuit -- >> no, no, you ask me questions every week. i just asked you a question. if you removed arizona -- but you weren't removing it. you were just asking a question about it. if arizona and pennsylvania were removed in the electoral college would president biden's lower below 270? >> no, but -- >> no, the answer is no. i'm not donald trump. you're asking me the question. you derrick -- i'm answering yo question. let me answer your question since you asked me. let me follow through. you gave a premise that's not true. >> donald trump tried to overturn the results in congress and you support that effort. >> well, now you're saying something that's not true either. let me answer your question and show you how your premise is not true. >> your losing candidate didn't organize a rally and say, stop the steal, we can overturn the certification of the electoral college on january 6th. >> do you want to talk to trump or do you want to ask me the question? 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