The president spent this morning on one of his golf courses, but it wasnt before blasting out a barrage of tweets. Most of them completely untrue. Like insisting the election was rigged, that Voting Machines were glitchy and that the media is working against him. Now, theres no evidence of any of that. Bottom line, the American People picked joe biden. Yet at one point the president tweeted, quote, i concede nothing. Ill take you live to the white house in just a moment. We also have our eyes fixed on florida right now and the launch thats coming up where the Spacex Falcon 9 rocket will lift off a short time from now with four astronauts on board. This launch was supposed to happen yesterday but the weather didnt cooperate. Well keep you updated. For now the countdown is still on. Lets go to the white house with cnns jeremy diamond. Its been a week and a day since the election was called. It did not go how President Trump had hoped. Even now hes still telling his supporters that theyre still in this race. Whats his explanation . You know, ana, there was a brief moment where the president seemed to acknowledge reality with two words, he won, referring to joe bidens victory last week, but then it was back to the sea of misinformation we have seen so ofsh from this president and his twitter feed. The president saying he won, but then adding that joe biden only won this election, claiming falsely, because this was a rigged election. And then the president in a followup tweet a couple of hours later saying he will not concede this election, saying, i concede nothing. And that was very clear as the day continued to go on s, as th president returned from his golf course, he continued to tweet a series of lies and false statements, conspiracy theories that hes alleging about this 2020 election. It was representative what weve seen from the president over the last week. Our sources say the president seems to be coming to grips with reality, the reality that all of these legal challenges will not overturn the results of the 2020 election. And then at other moments hes encouraging his legal team to continue pursuing every possible legal venue in the hopes that perhaps something can happen to change the results of this election. Yesterday the president putting former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani in charge of his reelection efforts but the track record so far is not on the president s side. On friday alone, nine cases brought by the president or his allies intended to overturn joe bidens victory in the president ial election were either dropped or dismissed by courts in several key battleground states. And what else is clear, while the president is focused on trying to overturn the results of this election, he is not focusing on the coronavirus pandemic. An explosion of cases we have seen over the last couple of weeks. The president on friday was very glad to take credit for some of the vaccine progress thats been taking place but he returned to his same lies and misinformation as it relates to the increase in cases, saying its because of an increase in testing. Yet weve seen no leadership from this president as the coronavirus continues in the United States. His Task Force Says its been at least five months since the president attended one of these Coronavirus Task force meetings but Vice President pence has been there. As the president continues to deny reality, the president elect is at his home in delaware and hes continuing to plan his transition. Cnns jessica dean is in delaware, joins us now. Jessica, what are you hearing about how the biden team is continuing on with this transition . Reporter well, theyre continuing to press forward as quickly, rapidly and effectively as they possibly can. The fact remains that the General Services administration, which is the federal office responsible for officially validating joe biden president elect and setting off the official transition process has yet to do that. And bidens newly named chief of staff, ron klain, called on the gsa to do so as soon as possible because right now theyre not allowed access to any of the federal agencies. That is of particular concern for them for a number of reasons. He really highlighted the covid situation, how theyre trying to plan for Vaccine Distribution. Take a listen. Were going to have meetings between our top scientific advisers and the officials of these drug ifieser but there ar other promising vaccines as well. Its great to have a vaccine, but vaccines dont save lives. Vaccinations save lives. That means you have to get that vaccine into peoples arms all over this country. Its a giant logistical project. Reporter its a project they know theyve got to plan for right now. And they feel like any day that is delaying that is putting them behind when it comes to Joe Biden Taking Office on january 20th and then being ready to distribute a vaccine. It is a large, logistical project, its massive, and they cant even speak to hhs right now, health and human services, in order to coordinate with them. We know theyre backchannelling with local officials with the medical community, but when it comes to intelligence, ana, president elect biden is still not getting daily intelligence reports. Thats also setting them behind as well. Typically by now the new president elect would be getting those. If is simply not happening. So ron klain again calling on the gsa to validate joe biden as the winner, begin this process. The Transition Team says theyll continue to put pressure on them and that all options remain on the table, including legal action. Well see how it unfolds in the coming days. What can you tell us about how the biden Coronavirus Team is trying to get around the obstructionism the obstruction behavior were seeing in the Trump Administration when it comes to the pandemic and trying to get the necessary information, specifically for Vaccine Distribution to go smoothly . Reporter well, its tough because, again, theyre not allowed to talk to the people who are making these plans as we speak. They want a seamless transition. They know this is a giant undertaking, to get a vaccine to this many millions and millions of people. And you add in all the other things thats likely going to have to be kept at very cold temperatures, there might be multiple doses. How do you do all this . Again, theyre not able to liaison with the people making this plan. We have the covid19 Advisory Board talking mongs itself developing their plans. Theyre backchannelling to the medical community, to local officials. But until they get that green light, theyre kind of in this holding pattern. I think i read they were reaching out directly to some of these Companies Like pfizer to try to communicate directly with them because obviously theyre not controlled by the government. Jessica dean, thank you for your reporting. Joining us is cnn senior political analyst john avlon and host of pbs firing line, margaret hoover. Guys, these tweets from the president , not exactly a concession but at least in one of them he did appear to acknowledge that biden won. Has he, at minimum, john, ripped off the bandaid . No. He acknowledged by mistake. He made it very clear. He said he won only because of fraudulent votes baselessly and accurately the evidence of his own administration. And then when he realized, by mistake, conceded, he tried to fix it. At this point its not whether or not President Trump believes he won, its about his supporters believes that. His own administration and dhs has been very clear, these are baseless claims. This is an attempt to preserve the presidency at the expense of the integrity of our democracy and republicans need to start standing up and speaking the truth, or they will be complicit they are complicit in undermining the integrity of our elections. Margaret, here we are a week later. Last week when we were talking, it was relatively fresh, we were asking when will republicans acknowledge joe biden as president elect. But a week later, legal battles are all fizzling, every state has now been called. Hello, when are republicans going to acknowledge reality . I hope soon. Look, it is no secret to the country that or, rather, to the Political Party that so easily wraps itself in the american flag, the fundamental bedrock principle of the democracy and our democracy is the peaceful transition of power. And we absolutely the reason a concession is important from the president is for what john said, it signals to his supporters that we are going to continue in this great tradition of 240 years of a peaceful transition of power to the next person. A presidency would live in infamy if donald trump were the first u. S. President to not continue that tradition. But what would be worse is how divisive it could be not divisive. Truly, 72 million americans need to understand that donald trump lost fair and square, that in the continuation of this great tradition of a peaceful transition of power, he is going to step down peacefully and they dont need to take to the streets. He should not encourage that. That is the worst thing we could have for joe biden who is to be a uniter, it will make his job so much harder. When you talk about unity and, you know, compromise, i talk to a lot of voters prior to the elections saying, thats what they were seeking, thats what they were craving. And so i want you to listen to president obama in this new interview where he talked about obstruction that he encountered from republicans when he took office. Listen. Were going to make you a oneterm president. Mitch mcconnell said that out loud. How do you deal with that hostility . Part of what i try to describe is how early that obstructionist attitude starts. It started on day one. It started on day one because we were trying to pass the recovery act, the stimulus package. People were losing their jobs, their homes and the economy was collapsing president at the time i thought, all right, obviously republicans arent going to agree with me on everything, but on this all the economists agreed, this is what we need, theyll give some cooperation on this. And we didnt get any. A wrecked economy, a country in need of relief, a new democratic president. Mcconnell in power. This feels like deja vu. Is bipartisanship a fantasy . It shouldnt be. It cant be. And i dont think its pollyanna itch to hope that some republicans want joe biden sworn in as president elect, become president on january 20th. Maybe he can work with them on a couple of issues in which theres Common Ground. But theres been enormous bad faith in our politics. Trust has been eroded. Republicans need to decide whether they want to benefit the country and enhance their own legacy or whether they want to try to burn it all down again for some political victory in the future. Theres an obligation to govern and republicans need to stop screwing around. They cant pretend theyre the party of super patriots if theyre not just undercutting the legitimacy of elections, which they know to be false, and stopping the ability of any Common Ground to be built on. I think thats joe bidens intention. He understands hes not going to be able to push through a progressive a boat load of legislation given the reality of where the senate is but it will require republicans finding some areas where they can work in good faith with joe biden and follow through on it. I want to add something here. Theres nothing fundamentally different about the beginning of joe bidens term in presidency a few a couple of things fundamentally about the beginning of Barack Obamas but one basic thing. I know democrats will say it was racism, the republicans never wanted to work with him in the first place. There are some elements that are true. But whats fundamentally different here, what Mitch Mcconnell said is his goal was to make barack obama a oneterm president. Fast forward to now. Nobody on the republican side thinks joe biden is going to be a twoterm president. In four years, in one term, what can republicans do because they dont have anything to lose . They might be willing to actually give a democratic president some wins in order to also advance some legislation and policy priorities themselves. I think theres a real chance we could see legislation and washington work in a way we havent for many years. And i dont think its pollyannaish. Mitch mcconnell and joe biden have known each other and liked each other for decades. When you said theres one thing fundamentally different here, i thought you were going to talk about how whats fundamentally here is republicans wont even acknowledge joe biden as president elect. I mean, at the they were already doing that okay, so there are we could write a chapter book about all the things that are different. But republicans will acknowledge this because it will happen. What is going to happen on january 20th i hope. Is that joe biden is going to be inaugurated president of the United States, whether republicans or donald trump acknowledge or concede or recognize or not. Thats going to happen. And then governing is going to the problem is some republicans running in 2024 will try to claim the mantel by playing to the crowd by insinuating that this is not a legitimate election and there will be a rush to the right on some folks to try to stoke fear and confusion and disinformation and that will be to their eternal discredit. Do you think President Trump will be, again, running for president in 2024, potentially on the republican ticket . He wants the attention, not the responsibility. He wants the he wants to remain relevant and to keep having attention. Thats the thing he craves more than anything else. Clearly, he doesnt actually want the job. He doesnt want to do the job. He hasnt in five months been to a coronavirus meeting when the pandemic is out of control. He will troll as he trolls and do anything he can to keep the attention on him. And then it becomes incumbent upon us as well as the Republican Party not simply to Pay Attention when bleeding desiring it, doing anything to achieve it at the expense of the country or his own Political Party. Quick final thought, margaret. I mean, donald trump will do anything he can to remain relevant and lead the headlines, but i think hes going to find its going to be a lot more difficult to lead the headlines when hes want the president of the United States anymore. Absolutely. Good to see you guys. Thanks. Take care. Coming up, the stunning covid surge. New cases at new highs, hospitals under siege and the u. S. Just surpassed 11 million coronavirus infections. Were entering a very dark phase in this pandemic. Our house is on fire and the president has basically locked himself in his bedroom. When we started carvana, they told us that selling cars 100 online wouldnt work. But we went to work. Building an experience that lets you shop over 17,000 cars from home. 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Yesterday saw the second highest number of new daily covid cases, second only to the day before. The Nations Health care system is overrun, as hospitalizations continue to soar. The u. S. Set a new record high number of patients hospitalized with the virus just yesterday. More than 69,000. In fact, weve been above 60,000 people hospitalized five days in a row now. We didnt even get that high last spring or during the summer surge. And it is everywhere. But dont just take my word for it. Our hospitals are telling us, it is only a matter of weeks at the current rate of spread before they must start rationing care. I dont sugar coat things and im not going to start now. We are in the worst part of this pandemic to date. Our case numbers are skyrocketing here in michigan. If things dont take a turn in the coming days, we will quickly reach the point when some form of a mandatory stayathome order is all that will be left. Its time that wyoming woke up and got serious about what its doing. Our state is at a feverpitch. Just a few of the nations governors there raising the alarm about the dangerous trajectory of this virus. I want to bring in dr. Jonathan reiner from George Washington university. We heard from the governors who sound like theyre starting to panic, but as a doctor, what are you feeling right now . Im feeling a sense of urgency to tell everyone in this country to mask up. You know, what i would suggest to folks around the country who have maybe not gotten this sense of urgency, why dont you just ask your doctor what he or she thinks about this. Why dont you ask your doctor if they think you should wear a mask. I think i know what theyre going to say. Theyre going to say, yes. Were seeing really explosive growth of infections in the United States. We had yesterday 163,000 new cases. If you look at our volume this past week, its up 38 compared to the week before. Hospitalizations are up 25 and deaths are up almost 20 also. 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