She needs to get rid of that doctor title. Nobody said that. So much hypocrisy going around. Sometimes they dont know that they are just mad that its a woman, you know . We shouldnt call dr. King anymore . I mean, you know, they are not mad about that, are they . I dont think its mad. I just think that its become so reductive. Opposition and politics is such currency. This stuff i learned today, i almost cried on the show tonight. Why . You were channeling me . I actually believe that part of the nonshal auns, forget the masks, come on, come to the rally, come together, we got to live, i think it was this herd immunity thing. I think that they were trying to get people sick. Now, i know all the fringe rightys will say i am accusing somebody of homicide. Thats not what i mean. I am saying their policy at the end of the day was it doesnt matter if people get sick. Well work our way through it. Thats what herd immunity is. And time matters more than the toll because if we get through it faster, the economy will recover sooner, life will be better sooner, so let them die, if they die, it is what it is. You are not wrong. Let them comfort you. I am going to talk about it in a couple of minutes here. It hurts me. The quote says, we want them infected. What does that mean . You are trying to get people sick. Explains why you would Say Something that seemed irrational, which dont worry about the masks. It never made sense. It does if you want people to get sick. We had this conversation not that long ago, and i said some of my friends who are in red states, and we were talking specifically about the virus, right, and i said i cant talk to them. I have to get rid of them because they werent making sense, right . One of my dear friends started talking about herd immunity. And i kept telling him thats not how herd immunity works. Herd immunity works with a vaccine. You dont just send people out to get sick and die in droves. You can, but thats what happens. People die in droves. Thats what happens. S so im with you. I dont understand it. I am going to pull a chris cuomo on this and be a Glass Half Full and i am going to hope that we can come back to reality. I am hope. Lets put it that way, that we can get people to actually start believing in science again, to believe in doctors and the scientists and to become honorable again. How does that sound to you . It sounds great because they are acting with no honor. No. That senator ron johnson, i will give you half my show to come on and you make me a case that that hearing was worthwhile and the basis of what it brought forward for people. I will give you half the show, senator, because you are just going to smile your way through and say, i dont know whats wrong. You know that was a grievance hearing. You know whats wrong. He wanted to, you know, i cant believe you did this. Its like not even worth watching. I didnt watch it. Its ridiculous. You know what it was. Don lemon, come on the show. Id love to have the conversation. You know we feel differently about that. You like to challenge them. I dont like to give them the air time. I think youve got to expose it. If anybody has a chance of being open, when you see the frag lenzy, even someone like ted cruz, they will never talk about it again after the election, he is a liar and he knew it. You said genius. The guy has a crazy pedigree. Dershowitz said he is one of the smartest guy he taught at harvard law. Okay. There is a thin line the song goes between love and hate. I know, thanks. Thin line between that and crazy. Thank you, chris. I shall see you soon. I love you, d. Lemon. More than you know. You are honorable. I got to tell you, be careful out there. The weathers bad in new york. We are in the middle of a noreaster. Wherever you are going, whereatr you are about to do, be safe. I am going to push cars out of snowdrifts. This is cnn tonight. I am don lemon. We have got entreprenebreaking tonight. I have to get it out of the way and then i will tell you. The news is terrible. Okay . Just being honest. It is the deadliest day of the pandemic so far with more than 3500 deaths reported today. We also hit the highest number of new reported cases today. I dont have to tell you, you know, youre experiencing along with me that its been a rough couple of weeks, rough couple of months. Really its been a rough year, okay . But its almost over. This is the part i am trying to be homeful and positive because we are getting there. America is moving ahead. We have a new president elect. He is making history. While the current president is hunkered down in the white house plotting revenge, but no matter what he does, he cannot turn back the clock. Cant do it. He cant change the reality that joe biden is about to become the president. He is the president elect now. He is going to take office in 35 days and he is forming his government. Our cabinet doesnt just have one first or just two of these firsts, but eight precedentbusting appointments. And today a ninth. The first ever openly gay nominee to lead the cabinet department. And one of the youngest cabinet members ever. The biden harris cabinet will be an historic cabinet. Bidens former rival Pete Buttigieg saying this today about his historymaking nomination. I am mindful that the eyes of history are on this appointment knowing that this is the first time an american president has ever sent an openly lbgtq cabinet to the senate for confirmation. And as, again, on the positive side, as america moves ahead, we are moving ahead, the current president wallowing in revenge in the final days of his administration. He is angry at anyone who doesnt stand by his dying cause. Angry at Mitch Mcconnell. Mitch mcconnell of all people. For admitting the reality that joe biden won. Angry at biden for winning, plotting revenge with demands for a special counsel to investigate his baseless allegations of voter fraud. Even though his own soon to be former attorney general said there is no there, there. And demanding another special counsel to investigate joe bidens son hunter. And if you are not a deadender like the Senate Republicans who held a hearing today to give oxygen to his utterly debunked election claims, prepare for an onslaught of mean tweets. One trump advisor telling cnn, quote, he is throwing an fing tantrum. I didnt say it. Thats what they said. Throwing an fing tantrum about leaving the white house. What do you expect from a president who never can accept reality, who calls everything he loses, even elections he won, rigged. Its a rigged election. I am winning by a lot. I am afraid the election will be rigged. I have to be honest. Watch the polls because this is part of the crooked rigged system i have been talking about since i entered the race. I understand it. Its a rigged system. This is, as i have been saying, a rigged system. This is a rigged this is a rigged system. This is a sick system from the inside. We have a rigged system in this country and we have to change it. Terrible. Terrible. They call it the rigged witch hunt. I think that really hurts our country and it really hurts our relationship with russia. I mean, what kind of a rigged deal is this . It will be a rigged election or they will never come out with an outcome. They will have do it again, and nobody wants that. There was a time when he didnt get an emmy for his tv Program Three years in a row and he started tweeting the emmys were rigged. Should have gotten it. I know it hurts, doesnt it, when you look at that . Its embarrassing if you fell for it. If you fell for that, you are like, oh, how did i fall for that . Look at that guy. Its pathetic. Reeks of desperation. Everything is rigged. Its rigged. I was robbed. Come on. Its rigged. Now he is angry about losing a job that he isnt even doing. He is surrounding himself with yes men and women at a sad cabinet meeting. No one from the doj, no one from the pentagon, no one from the state department or cia even showed up. Nope. Its over. 35 days. The only thing that seems to interest him is handing out pardons like some kind of santa claus. So many people lobbying for pardons. The white house has a spreadsheet just to keep track. And to the surprise of absolutely no one, Officials Say a preemptive pardon for trump himself has not been ruled out. Even his maralago neighbors dont want him. They say he is not allowed to live there. He cant live there permanently under an agreement that he made even when he converted the state to a private club. He did it himself. And that on the eve of what could be emergency use authorization for a second vaccine, with shots going into arms across the country on the deadliest day of the pandemic so far, we are learning more tonight about just how callous his administration, this president has been about the lives of millions of americans. We talked about this, chris and i. If you thought they were just negligent, incompetent, its really worse. Its deliberate. Internal emails now revealing a former top trump appointee repeatedly urging herd immunity to the cdc and hhs and encouraging more infections, saying this. And i quote, okay . This is a quote. Infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle age with no conditions, et cetera, have zero to little risk. So we use them to develop herd. We want them infected. We want them infected. We use them. We use them. Hang on to that one. That happens a lot. Its happening now, as a matter of fact. I guess we could tell that by their actions, right . But if its so shocking to see, its really a shock still to see it in black and white. Even though they said it, while at the same time denying it for months, listen. We like the fact that there is a lot of cases in lowrisk populations because thats exactly how we are going to get herd immunity. Population immunity. The more immunity thin the community, the better we can eradicate the threat of the virus, including the threat to people who are vulnerable. Thats what herd immunity is. Once you get to a certain number, you know, we use the word herd, right . Its going to go away. I have never advised the president to push a herd immunity strategy. I have never told the task force that i advocated a herd immunity strategy. You will develop like a herd mentality. Its going to be herd developed and thats going to happen. No one is advocating pursuing a herd immunity strategy. That has never been advocated to the president by me. He never advocated that. And these people, right . What else could you possibly expect from a president who said this . People were saying maybe we shouldnt do anything, just ride it. They say, ride it like a cowboy. Just ride it. Ride that sucker right through. You are going to miss that, right . This president and his administration didnt just stand by and watch. They advocated a policy that said we want them infected. Did you get what you wanted . Do you know that is a pandemic, right . This is a pandemic right now. That infections lead to deaths. That you cannot control who lives and who dies from a deadly virus on the loose. Every real expert said herd immunity was a farce. Every real expert said let me do that again. Every real expert said that there would be a second wave. What do you need experts for when you have the Trump Administration . Exactly, here is the proof, there is always a receipt for everything. Exactly six months ago tonight the Vice President wrote this in a wall street journal oped, and i quote, the media has tried to scare the American People every step of the way and these grim predictions of a second wave are no different. The truth is whatever the media says our whole of america approach has been a success. Oh, really . Vice president pence, chairman of the Coronavirus Task force. Lets take a closer look at your record of success. On the day the Vice President wrote that six months ago, 23,693 daily cases were reported. Now we are seeing almost ten times that number. Every day. On that day six months ago, 119,881 americans were dead from this virus. Tonight more than 307,000 americans are dead. Even for a white house full of liars, its really hard to swallow that. Like i said,et beenits been a h year. But its almost over. There is hope. And i am not the only one who thinks that. Take a look at the Christmas Card from the former president george w. Bush and former first lady laura bush. A painting by the former president of the statue of liberty. Its right on the front. Part of his Art Collection celebrating immigrants with a message, may the light of the Holiday Season shine bright in your heart now and throughout the new year. A pointed message about a hopeful new year from the former president. And the current president cant turn back the clock. No matter how hard he tries. He is a defeated president who is still fighting a battle he lost, but is he ever going to accept reality with his enablers putting on a show like todays Senate Hearing over his bogus Election Fraud claims . I think we are past the point where we need to be having conversations about the outcome of this election. I would appreciate more support from my own party, the Republican Party, to call this stuff out and end it. Election fraud claims . When i noticed my sister moving differently, she said it was like someone else was controlling her mouth. Her doctor said she has tardive dyskinesia, which may be related to important medication she takes for her depression. Td can affect different parts of the body. [narrator] in todays trying times, were here to help you manage td. Visit talkabouttd. Com for a doctor discussion guide to prep for your next appointment in person, over the phone, or online. We were so relieved to learn there are treatments for td. Well, audreys expecting. Twins grandparents we want to put money aside for them, so. Change in plans. Alright, lets see what we can adjust. Wed be closer to the twins. Change in plans. Okay. Mom, are you painting again . You could sell these. Lemme guess, change in plans . At fidelity, a change in plans is always part of the plan. When youre camping with friends and you get the biggest spot, and you swam in the river all day in the warm afternoon sun. Thats pure gold. Ill be eating chicken tikka masala with garlic naan. [doorbell chimes] cheers. I win again, patrick. Thats siiir patrick. Oooooow. Sir. Left in office, and sources say President Trump is trying to weaponize the justice department. He wants two special counsels appointed. One to investigate joe bidens son hunter biden and another to look into the president s false claims of massive Election Fraud. The outgoing attorney general bill barr says there is no evidence of fraud. Trump set to be lashing out and throwing temper tantrums inside the white house. I want to bring in jim messina, a former Obama Campaign manager. So good to see you. Thank you for joining. I hope that you are being safe. You are not part of the noreaster, so you are doing okay. But thank you. Good to see both of you. Jim, president elect biden, he is moving forward, adding to his cabinet. Congress trying trying to get the stimulus deal done. Trump has been on revenge, settling scars, but the clock is ticking, right . Absolutely. If you look at the economic numbers and look at all of the things that we have to do, it is unbelievable that you got a president who is spending all of his time sort of in this selfdiatribe acting like a child, racing around the west wing of the white house throwing a fit instead of digging in and figuring out how to move these negotiations forward on a stimulus packaging. The reason why they are going to get to a deal tonight or tomorrow is because he stayed out of it. But its pathetic. At the same time, you have a president elect who is doing exactly what he promised, which is appointing a coulabinet that reflects america, moderate, mainstream, focused on science and actually getting together a government that can fix some of these problems that this guy has caused over four tumultuous years. You know, to you again, joe bidens Vice President is really one of his top rivals now. Today he is officially named another top rival, Pete Buttigieg. This is going to be a very different presidency and its going to happen in just a few weeks. Yeah, really true. Barack obama give me a second, ill get to you. Yeah, one of the first books that barack obama asked us to read in the white house was team of rivals, about a bunch of people from different political persuasions who all were working together to get something done. I think biden has done exactly what he had to do, which is pick the best and the brightest. So its okay that Pete Buttigieg was against him, okay that Kamala Harris was against him in the primary. He said what are the best people to do these jobs. And i think he is building a cabinet that makes me so hopeful about the future. Governor granholm, the former michigan governor, is pro probably the most competent and one of the best people i ever worked with in world politics. The fact that she is in this cabinet fills me with hope about what we can actually get done in the next four years. Go ahead, stuart. I know you want to weigh in. I think probably if you took an general iq test, probably 30 or 40 points it just went up. This is a government that is competent and people who actually want the job because they want to do something. I have always been a believer that one of the great benefits of a Civil Society is not having to think about who is president and not having to think about the government and donald trump has denied us all of that pleasure. Amen. To just go about our lives. So my hope is in three, four, five months every story isnt a washington story. That the government is going to be running, its going to be doing what its going to do, they will have serious people and we will have Serious Problems being solved. Its just a night and day difference as to which party sees itself as a governing party. Republicans are having these absurd hearings. When more people are dying every day than 9 11, its just an absolute abdication of the oath of office, i think. Its a Holiday Season, and i know the man upstairs is very busy, but i hope he is listening to you because of what you said, it makes total sense. I