What the new York Attorney general is investigating and tonight she will be out front. Lets go out front. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Out front tonight the breaking news. President elect joe biden telling cnn that he will ask all americans to wear a mask during his first 100 days in office. Im going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask. Not forever. 100 days, and i think well see a significant reduction. It comes as one american is now dying of covid19 every 30 seconds. Every 30 seconds. It means two people have died since i began speaking. More than 275,000 americans have now died from the virus which is equivalent to losing the entire city of orlando, florida. It wasnt long ago that we reported an american was dying from covid every 90 seconds and i remember that day because when we were talking about the number and checking to make sure it was right, we thought it was incomprehensible and he kept checking it and checking it, could that possibly be . That was 35 days ago and now someone is dying every 30 seconds and what has the president been doing in that time . Well, he has been focused on other things like trying to overturn the election that he lost. If you count the legal votes, i easily win. We won the election easily. We won an election. Yes. But they dont like that. Just to be clear, he lost. In the last 35 days trump also fired off more than 800 tweets. 800 tweets, almost all of them baselessly claiming the election was rigged and now as an american is dying every 30 seconds today from covid, we are learning that there have been multiple white house meetings about pardoning trumps inner circle including his Adult Children, his soninlaw Jared Kushner and even kushners father and trump making an appearance at white House Holiday parties. So far there are invitt asiaatir 20 reported party, indoors, masks not required and even as the president s own task force is warning about indoor christmas celebrations and even as dr. Fauci has been very explicit to all of us that small family gatherings are responsible for the family spread right now. Again, spread that even as i speak is causing a record amount of deaths nine months into the onslaught. In the 35 days trump has spent a lot of time on social media, not talking about covid. No. Heres an example. On thanksgiving day, a day when 1,232 american deaths from covid were reported, trump accused twitter of sending out, quote, false trends. I remember that, i said what is he talking about . Guess what was trending at that time . Top trend was the hash tag diaper don which i suppose was because he was, you know, sitting at his desk, right . So people did that. So trump was upset as something as absurd and silly as diaper don trending on twitter, the twitter trends were made up and including raises for military troops, to obscure a rule thats in the same bill. Thats how upset he was about diaper don. That is how he spent meaningful time during these 35 days and he also spent time recording a 46minute video, a video filled with what he knows to be lies about the election and a video that he actually had the temerity to say, quote, may be the most important speech ive ever made. The only time he mentioned coronavirus in the 46 minutes was to attack democrats for encouraging their supporters to vote by mail during the pandemic. The 46minute rant released yesterday. In 46 minutes in those 46 minutes up to 90 americans died of coronavirus. He calls that the most important speech hes ever made. One of the only things trump does care about when it comes to the virus seems to be himself getting credit. Dont let joe biden take credit for the vaccines. Joe biden failed with the swine flu, h1n1, totally failed with the swine flu. Dont let him take credit for the vaccines because the vaccines were me. The vaccines were me. And his press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany took it further. Having a businessman as business, the trump vaccine. More americans are dying more than ever before from this virus and to be very clear here, the vast majority of these deaths at this point, these record deaths should not be happening and they would not be happening should there be clear, National Leadership and rules on things like masks. As america sets a death record, trump is silent on anything, but the election and on demanding credit for vaccines. Kaitlan collins is live outside the white house tonight. The president is focusing on everything, but the pandemic. Thats right. Erin, for the last several months the president was not that focused on the pandemic. If you talk to people who were talking to the president about what was important to him in the days leading up to the election, but in the last month since that election happened and since the president lost that election, sources say he has been more disengaged throughout this entire pandemic because it is just not something that the president wants to focus on, wants to talk about, has private meetings about and instead hes been completely consumed about this election loss and focusing on the efforts that why recording a 46minute video which im told was recorded at the white house last week, edited and of course yesterday was the day that the president decided to release it and was not talking about the number of covid19 deaths or what else we were seeing play out across the country and instead is focusing on that and the closest hes gotten to talking about the pandemic in the last few weeks was exactly what you said there, trying to say dont let joe biden take credit for the vaccines and something that joe biden has not attempted to do so far, but is the president s fear that people will start to get vaccinated and once joe biden is vaccinated and if you had to look at what the president is saying and what he is focused on in between his very rare public appearances these days and his trips to the golf course and tweets. You see such a different message coming from his task force to state officials because if you look at the reports we got yesterday, what the task force sent to governors and state officials who are figuring out how to get this under control, they say the risk to americans is at an alltime high and we are at an incredibly dangerous place in the country and those are in private reports that cnn is trying to go through loops and hoops to obtain, but youre not hearing it from the president himself. Kaitlan, thank you very much. The lack of leadership at the federal level has been putting the burden on fighting the virus state and local leaders such as roy cooper who is out front now, and governor, so this is what youre dealing with in north carolina. A Record Number of hospitalizations and new cases. How bad is it in your state right now, sir . Our numbers are at alarming rates. Its one of the reasons why we put in a mandatory mask mandate, why we have put in capacity restrictions, why we closed bars, enforced smaller gatherings, but we sure could use leadership in the white house to help us with this messaging when weve had a president that is discouraging masks and encouraging mass gathering. That causes governors problems and weve been on the front lines here. Were going to be excited about distributing these vaccines. I think theres light at the end of the tunnel, but we have to save lives during these next few months. Its going to be a long, tough winter for all of us, and we will need that leadership in the white house to help us through this. So governor gavin newsom announced a regional stay at home orders. Delaware announced a stay at home advisory, do you think you may have to take more restrictive measures than even the mask mandate which youre saying youve put in place which the president elect has said he wants for at least 100 days after his inauguration. My current order will run out next week. All of our options are on the table to tighten things down. We know we may need to do that. Our hospitals have capacity right now. Weve been staying in close contact with them, but we are ready to do what we need to do to protect the health and safety of north carolinians. What would help us if people would obey the rules and when you have a lead are in the white house thats encouraging people not to obey the rules, that causes significant problems for us. I am pleased that our local governments are stepping up enforcement of mandate as it we put in place and we need to do more of that. So you talk about the parties and the maskless parties that the president has appeared at these. In his last day of campaigning he was in your state, governor cooper, and this is what he said. The governor of north carolina, you have to open up your state. North carolina will be opened on november 4th. [ cheering ] right after the elections. The anti because they want us to look bad. They dont care about people. They want us to look bad. He said you dont care about people. The minute the election is over you should open your state back up. A week after that, after the election you extended your phase three restrictions. So the question is how much does rhetoric like that hurt . When he came down and said this is all just made up to make me look bad. How much did that hurt . It hurts a lot because it makes people believe that this isnt serious when it is, and its putting people in the hospital. Its costing peoples lives, and we have some of the very best tools that dont cost very much. Wearing a mask, being socially distant, avoiding gatherings, those are the kinds of things that we can do between now and the successful vaccines that were going to get out soon, but when you have leaders that people follow who are telling them to do the opposite, then that puts all of us in danger and thats why we are looking forward to a white house thats going to work with us to try to get the right messaging out to people about what they need to do to stay safe. We dont want to give up now. Were at the 10 yard line. We dont want to punt now. We snead to get through these next few months wearing the masks, staying socially distant and doing the things that we need to do to protect the public and we need more help from the federal government. Theyre going to fly in these vaccines and leave them here in our state and we will be responsible for getting it to people. It will be com mri kayed logistically. Yes. With the pfizer, we have to give one and another 21 days, with moderna one and then one 28 days later and it will be tough for governors to do that. Thank you very much, governor. I appreciate your time. I want to go to dr. Sanjay gupta and dr. Reiner who advised the white house under joe w. Bush. Joe biden says he will call for americans to wear a mask for a hundred days after he takes office. He cant mandate this. Governor cooper are trying to do that at the state level, but how significant would that be . Having the president of the United States say that and push that from the president ial podium . He says it will explicitly save lives. Wont it . Yeah. I think the evidence is pretty clear on this, and frankly, even in fewer than a hundred days youd probably see the impacts of a significant number of people Wearing Masks and youre right about the mandates. Its interesting. Its hard to mandate these thing, but if governmental buildings and other institutions started doing it, i was at the white house two weeks ago to do an interview over there, and i was shocked in the Eisenhower Executive Office building, inside, cold outside, i would say half of the people were Wearing Masks. It is unbelievable at at white house that that would still be happening. We talked about arizona on your show before and mask mandate brought something under control. Let me show you another one, just because i like digging hyperlocal and they put a masked mandate green. Thing are fine now and lets lift the mask mandate and the numbers go back up and once you lift them theres a lot of viral spread if the numbers go back up. They really do work. I think its clear. Its clear and you see thanksgiving and the numbers ticking up. It just raises the deep concern that everyone should feel about what we will see in the next few weeks in the country after thanksgiving. Dr. Reiner, i mentioned briefly stay at home orders in california. Do you think more states are going to do this at this point or do you think people that the popular fatigue is just so severe, despite the record death that that will not happen . States are going have to do that. Whether the population is fatigued or not, and theyre going to have to do that because hospital capacities are going to be reached. We are are starting to worry about that in parts of california where i heard today in Los Angeles County only has about a hundred icu beds left and once you exceed your capacity to take care of sick people you have nothing else to do other than to shut down and put in place a stay at home order. Were going have to do that. So what the public needs to understand is that the way to perhaps flatten the curve and we need to flatten the curve until we have enough vaccine around, and thats going to take many weeks to three to four months. The way to do that is to mask up, to social distance, but if thats not enough we will have to close down. States are going to have to do it whether they want to or not. You mentioned the hospital bed situation in california and sanjay you said today that the American Health care system is at the breaking point and those are your words and the country is tracking as badly as it was not in april, during the 1918 flu pandemic, right . When we had nowhere near the medical abilities that we have now in any way, shape or form. That is a really incredible thing to say. Yeah. It struck me. Ive been sort of tracking this for some time. First of all, with regard to the breaking point. One thing to sort of keep in mind is 90 of Hospital Systems according to dr. Redfield are now in the red zone, running into the capacity problems that dr. Reiner is describing. When we saw this back in the spring and it was primarily in the northeast and you had other regions you could count on. There were healthcare workers going from new york to tech tex and georgia, and polices can go to other parts of the region. You cant do that if the whole country is on fire, but 1918. Obviously, its the pandemic that people talk about, but if you see the graph what that second wave was like program obviously the population is higher now and the fact that we have better hospitals, ic beds and therapeutics and better overall, were tracking what happened in 1918 and i was just so struck by it because it speaks to this idea that no matter how good we get medically and no matter how good we get scientifically, human behavior, if it doesnt follow it trumps that. It still ruins the gains that you make in these other areas. A hundred years later, despite the modern advances weve made we may trek as badly as 1918. Thats the law of numbers and you get to the point when there are so many involved that you dont have the capacity. To that vein, pompeo is inviting 900 people to a holiday party. They say guests will be required to wear a mask and social distancing guidelines. Im not sure how you can manage that amount of people at the same event. Would you attend a party like that, some kind of social distancing and masks are there, but come to our party . No. Absolutely not. So its unsafe to gather in numbers anywhere in the United States right now. Actually, in d. C. , the d. C. Law prohibits indoor gatherings of ten people and that violates the law, but think about it this way. The kind of gatherings theyre having serve food and drink and in order to enjoy food or drink, you have to take your mask off. Once you take your mask off, you make yourself available to the fire us. Once youre in the hospital i leave my mask on because there is no safe place on eat or a private venue anywhere in the United States. Its a reckless thing. Its reckless behavior. When i go to lunch, if i have to eat between cases, i eat in my car in the parking garage and i go back in because thats the safest way to do it. The state department parties are a menace. Thank you both very much and as i said, right now an american dying every 30 seconds. 35 days ago that was an american dying every 90 seconds. Thank you both very much. Coming up tonight, dont miss jake tappers exclusive joint interview with joe biden and Kamala Harris. You can see it at 9 00 right here on cnn. Next, trump now questioning attorney general bill barrs ability to do the job. Hes the most loyal lieutenant. Barr has said he sees no edz of widespread voter fraud and that is enough to get you the boot. Is it enough to get fired . A pardon cannot protect him from anything she is investigating. Leticia is my guest. People are not getting enough food to eat and that situation is getting worse. Both of us are not working right now and we have four kids that we have to feed. 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