Unquote. Following in the foot steps of Many Republican appointed judges and Election Officials and governors who have stood up for facts and refused to indulge this nonsense from mr. Trump and the president s efforts to disenfranchise legal of millions of votes from people. This may sting more given the fact that barr has generally been a trump loyalist on other matters such as the mueller investigation. The blowback against barr is coming with Trump Campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani and jenna ellis quite aggressively pushing these theories. His presidency is ending the same way yet another desperate embrace of unhinged lies. One so wild that even his most loyal republicans in his administration are refusing to stand by him. Kaitlan collins joins us live from the white house. Giuliani and ellis released their own statement. What do they have to say . Reporter that statement came moments after the Associated Press published rarkeemarks by barr and they are say with all due respect to the attorney general they say no semblance of the investigation and believe the attorney general has not looked hard nuch into these allegations that they have been putting in the publics fear but not in a courtroom. Even though barr did say gnome the Justice Department looked into it, he said the department of Homeland Security looked into it as well. They ended their statement by saying it was an opinion without nomg of investigation by bill barr as he becomes the latest official to rebuke the president. Attorney general bill barr, the latest official to pierce president Donald Trumps claims of a rigged election, telling the Associated Press today the Justice Department has not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election. The president claimed in a telephone interview on sunday the doj was not doingity job to investigate his allegations of widespread fraud. But barr says his department the department of Homeland Security looked into claims from the president and his attorneys that Voting Machines were rigged but, quote, we havent seen anything to substantiate that. While trumps efforts to overturn the results of the election have failed he is spending his last days in the white house behind closed doors while apparently intent on taking down several members of the gop with him. Angry that a recount in georgia didnt change the outcome, trump lashed out at the states republican governor today saying brian kemp allowed his state to be scammed. Trump will be in georgia this weekend ahead of the Senate Runoff but gop officials may not be there to greet him. Ive got a full day on saturday. I wish the president best 6 luck down here. Do you know if the governor will be there . Im not sure the his scheduled. Reporter doug ducey in trumps crosshairs after he acknowledged the results of the election and announced hell swear in his new states democratic senator mark kelly. He asked why rushing to put a democrat in office and ducey nine different tweets explaining Arizona Election law. A member of trumps legal team is now insisting he was being sarcastic when he called for violence against chris krebs, the Election Security official trump fires. That guy is a class a moron. He should be drawn and quartered and taken out at dawn and shot reporter it wasnt long after the Associated Press had published those remarkable comments by bill barr that he showed up at the white house today, which is notable not because he is the attorney general and he typically is there, ybut he not been there lately. We saw him going into the west wing today. Moments after this we asked the white house why he was there because no meeting between barr and trump on his schedule but we are told he had a meeting with mark meadows planned in advance of those comments about no widespread fraud in the election. Thank you. Attorney general william barr today has also appointed u. S. Attorney general john durham to act as a special counsel. Durham will be investigating whether intelligence and Law Enforcement officials violated any laws as they investigated the russia investigation in 2014. Cnns evan perez joins us live. What are you learning, evan . Reporter john durham is now a special counsel, essentially the same thing that Robert Mueller was during President Trumps presidency. What this means is that come january and joe biden takes office, john durham will continue doing his investigation. As you said, he is a u. S. Attorney. Traditionally what happens is all u. S. Attorneys leave their positions and joe biden is able to pick a u. S. Attorney in connecticut which is where john durham is based. What this means is that the durham investigation which began earlier this year is going to continue probably for another year, well into the biden presidency looking into whether or not there were any laws broken in the beginnings of the early parts of the trump russia investigation back in 2016. Jake . Can president elect biden fire a special counsel when he becomes president . He can. But, of course, this is why this is a bit of a political grenade that bill barr has left behind for the incoming president. We dont unlike donald trump who regularly threatened to fire Robert Mueller, we dont expect biden will do the same thing, obviously, having run on this whole idea of restoring normalcy to not only the Justice Department but to washington as a whole. So we expect that durham will be able to continue his work. Jake, i should mention that barr appointed durham in october and only now are we learning about this, in part, because the Justice Department said they didnt want to effect the outcome of the november election. Evan perez, thank you. Appreciate it. Lets discuss this about our panel. Lets start with barr telling the associated president no evidence he has been or anybody at doj able to find of widespread fraud that would overturn the election. Laura coates, that is a pretty stunning debunking from somebody who is a trump loyalist, i think its fair to say. I think that is more than fair to say and it is pretty stunning, one, it took him this long to have the obvious that the sky is blue, be actually conveyed to the American People. But also that he chose to whole heartedly say he has not found not only idea of fraud but widespread fraud was not present to overturn the election results. This is a really strong rebuke from somebody who last year went ahead of the Mueller Report and actually even more than a year ago at this point went ahead with the Mueller Report and tried to create a narrative in anticipation of trying to undermine the presidency and his hope was that people would regard him with a great deal of credibility and now that credibility seems to be harming the president s own narrative craft now. Laura, the president s attorney Rudy Giuliani we should note has been saying all sorts of crazy things with no evidence, wild allegations, not introducing any of them in a court of law because it would be perjury or it would violate the court in some way. He released a Statement Today saying, quote. There is no evidence of widespread fraud. This is just, again, youre allowed to lie in a press release. Right. Every time that giuliani and other members of the president s Campaign Team that are still going around the country with giuliani or still repeating the fraud claims that have no evidence, they are not providing any specificity but making wild accusations and why so many of their lawsuits have failed and judges have thrown them out and said that there is no merit to this, there is no evidence there. There nothing there. So giuliani is continuing to stay by trumps side and it may very well be because of the fact that now there is talk that he could be looking to get pardoned by the president. Do you think barr will now get the same kind of reception from Trump Supporters that we have seen other republican official like chris krebs or the governor of arizona or the governor of georgia, that they are now getting . These are people are simply standing up for the rule of law and for facts and now, you know, in many cases, they are getting Death Threats. Yeah. The short answer i think is yes. You know, despite everything barr has done as laura mentioned to try to tilt the deck toward trump on the intervention of the flynn case and stone case and his characterization of the mueller case i think what will happen. Big barr with that record is able to come on out and finally acknowledge the obvious i think egregious we are not hearing from the republicans in congress and the Mitchell Mcconnell leadership and kevin mccarthy. They are allowing this poison to kind of spread through the political system that has produced Death Threats against the secretary of states of state in arizona and georgia and the kind of language you heard from joe and the poll showing 75 to 80 think the election is stolen. If bill barr can say this how does mcconnell refuse to acknowledge the obvious given the failure to do so. Do you think President Trump will fire attorney general barr . The idea im sure he will ridicule him. Im sure he will summon him in some capacity to help to understand why he is not toeing the party line. If you fire him or if you let the clock run out he will no longer be the attorney general come january 21st. So the idea here that he is trying to solidify even in his absence perhaps either through firing or through the running out the clock, is probably why he is trying to install somebody who will continue the legacy of providing a cloud of innuendo about additional baseless claims. This time being what john durham would be looking at to figure out whether there was a politicization of the department of justice or an investigation with eye towards trying to prevent Donald Trumps initial election back in 2014. So i think he is preparing not only for the ridicule but also preparing for the ability to have somebody in place who can continue and although there is no evidence to support that either as the i. G. Report indicated last year, that cloud of suspicion served President Trump welcome comey did it so i think he is having it continue into the new days of the bide ep administrati biden harris administration. Joe degeneva called for chris krebs a former top Cyber Security official to be drawn and cornered and taken out at dawn and shot. He has since said he was being sarcastic. Its not funny or sarcastic to me when you listen to it. White house communication director told me, quote, that statement was wildly inappropriate. I dont even understand what p people in an environment where officials and journalists and all sorts of people get Death Threats from the president s supporters all the time yeah. Jake, it certainly is a troubling statement. I mean, its scary. And so one thing is that, again, there is a pattern with trump and those around him where there is a lack of strong condemnation when things like this occur or when the president , himself, in the past, has even been willing to incite violence against his opponents or against protesters. So i dont expect the strong condemnation from the president against his attorney but it certainly is warranted in this case. Thanks to one and all. Appreciate your time. In two days, president elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris have first joint interview with me you can see a portion at 4 00 on the lead. Watch the full interview thursday evening in a cnn special event at 9 00 p. M. Eastern only on cnn. Their first joint interview. Coming up, joe biden Just Announced his new Economic Team and his plan to get america working again and the challenges he is facing from the Republican Opposition in congress. 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Joe biden this afternoon introduced his Economic Team and promised to strike a new deal on Economic Relief and try to build up the middle class. We can build a new American Economy that works for all americans. Not just some all. We need to act now though. We need to Work Together. That was a sentiment echoed by all of bidens selections underscoring the need for the recovery to be questionable. Bidens pick for treasury secretary janet yellen former chair of the Federal Reserve called it an american tragedy that so Many Americans are without jobs and going hungry and said its essential to move with urgency to jumpstart the economy as cnns jeff zeleny now reports. Our message to everybody struggling right now is this help is on the way. Reporter with a pandemic deepening and economic pain intensifying, president elect joe biden presented his Economic Team today as a new life line for struggling americans. We can build a new American Economy that works for all americans, not just some, all. Reporter biden formally introduced janet yellen to be the first woman to serve as treasury secretary. No one is better prepared to deal with these crises. Reporter a former chair of the Federal Reserve who also led the council of economic advisers in the clinton administration, yellen pledged to help rescue families from a onetwo punch of coronavirus and unemployment. Out of our collective pain as a nation, we will find collective purpose to control the pandemic and build our economy back better than before. Reporter yellen offered a stark policy contrast from the trump era saying addressing the widen economic and inquality is a priority. It is is not only economically unsustainable but one that betrays our commitment for giving every american an equal chance to get ahead. Reporter joining her is the deputy treasury secretary along with tanden at office of management and budget. And cecelia rouse leading the council of economic adviser and face Senate Confirmation which means some republicans must sign off on the nominees. Tanden drawing fierce opposition already. For now at least Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell will play a key role who makes it into bidens cabinet and one month after the election, today, biden said this when asked whether he had spoken to mcconnell. Not yet reporter president elect biden not speaking to Mitch Mcconnell one day after election day but we sensed something in wilmington today not seen in washington at all really. A sense of urgency for some type of Economic Relief bill. The president elect said he urged congress to do something in this lame duck session but he said it would just be a start. This is clearly front and center in his plan for his first 100 days in office which start in january. Jeff zeleny in delaware, thank you. Republicans saying no evidence of widespread Election