First americans started to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Also today, the most radical attorney general since the watergate era, when one attorney general went to prison, today trump attorney general william barr finally resigned, or was fired. Hard to tell. All of those things happened in one day. A vaccine, a new president and Vice President , and the northbound of a southbound attorney general william barr. How was your day . All at once. Everything happens all at once. In just a moment, we will be speaking here with the Incoming White House chief of staff. President elect biden tonight gave a big, serious speech on the occasion of the electors meeting in the various states and officially casting their ballots to make biden and harris officially the president and Vice President elect. Ron klain is going to join us live in just a moment to talk about that speech from president elect biden and also to talk about this historic moment that we got to see play out live today all over the country. I never thought i would burst into tears watching a ups driver go up a loading dock ramp with a hand truck but that happened to me more than once today. All over the country today, nearly 150 sites received their first doses of corona vaccine today. 145 sites got it today. Another 425 sites are going to get their first doses of vaccine tomorrow. A few dozen more sites will receive their first doses on wednesday. It is rolling out, and we saw today highly at risk Frontline Health providers getting the first doses of the vaccine. Nurses and doctors who work in covid icus. Even as we saw those first shots administered today to those frontline heroes, the white house was apparently embarrassed enough yes, apparently its possible. The Trump White House was apparently embarrassed enough today by reporting this weekend that Trump White House staff would jump the line and get vaccinated before everybody else they were embarrassed enough by that reporting this weekend in the New York Times that they climbed down from that plan and publicly announced that at least, okay, most white house staff will not jump the queue. Just astonishing that they even tried to get away with that. Almost as astonishing that they were embarrassed enough to change the plan when it was exposed to sun light. Hey, look, shame. The National Priority populations for access to the vaccine are, for a very good reason, health care workers, who we need to stay alive so they can keep the rest of us alive. Also people who live and work in longterm care facilities like nursing homes. Those are the americans most at risk of dying. Those are the locations where americans are most vulnerable not only for getting the virus but for dying from it, right . Those are the priorities. Frontline Health Providers and people in longterm care facilities, people who live and work there. White house staffers fit neither of those categories, but they tried it until they got called out on it. Now theyve walked that back. I mean then again, you know, its not just supposed to be the president s friends who get access to super expensive, super rare, monday cloenl antibody treatments when they get covid, right . The protocol for the distribution of those super rare, super expensive treatments is not just supposed to be people who the president can call on his cell phone, but thats how that worked out so far. So maybe they thought they could get away with having white house staffers jump the queue. To showcase just how much the administration is prioritizing the fight against the virus even now, it is tomorrow night that secretary of state mike pompeo is hosting a Holiday Party at the state department, an indoor Holiday Party that has a guest list of 900 people all in one room tomorrow night at the state department. Thats how serious they are about this thing. Today on the day the first vaccines were administered in this country, the Trump National security adviser, Robert Obrien, was off on a european and mediterranean junket. Robert obrien had a meeting overseas today to be followed by some lovely and ambitious sightseeing time in paris and in london and in rome, and then hes going to tel aviv. It is a taxpayerfunded trip, but as first reported by axios, National Security adviser Robert Obrien has brought his wife on this trip. It sounds like its going to be romantic and amazing. Their itinerary reportedly includes a private tour of the louvre, the Louvre Museum in paris, even though the louvre is closed to the public because of covid. Nevertheless he pulled some strings so he could get his wife in there, and thats the junket that hes on right now. Thats how the National Security adviser is spending Coronavirus Vaccine dday. Oui cest bon. Multiple veterans homes in multiple states reporting dozens of deaths in single facilities among elderly veterans. Well, today, on Coronavirus Vaccine dday, multiple American Veterans groups are calling for the resignation or the firing of trump v. A. Secretary robert wilkie. This after the Inspector General told Justice Department federal prosecutors that wilkies behavior may have crossed the line to unconscionable to potentially criminal when he female veteran who made a Sexual Assault allegation. 37 days left, right . On the pace of scandal that the Trump Administration has maintained from the beginning, honestly, 37 days is plenty of time for them to have another cabinet official resign in disgrace or get fired or arrested or maybe all three. I mean 37 days . How many more cabinet scandals might break open . How many more people might resign in disimmigratigrace . I mentioned at the top of the show, attorney general william barr is out tonight. Were going to have reaction from a former senior Justice Department and fbi official who has been one of William Barrs most potent critics. But i should also note and, you know, this may turn out to be just a coincidence, but just before we got word that william barr was resigning tonight, we also learned about the resignation of the first trumpappointed u. S. Attorney as well. U. S. Attorneys, of course, dont serve for fixed terms. They can quit whenever they want. But the resignation tonight of craig car fee tow, who is the trump appointed u. S. Attorney in new jersey, hes the first u. S. Attorney to quit since the election. And it is a little bit weird for a u. S. Attorney to quit during a lame duck. He was also part of the scheme that attorney general william barr cooked up in sdny. You might remember this summer there was a big scandal when william barr tried to sort of vards quietly nudge out and then force out the u. S. Attorney in the Southern District of new york. It was carpenito, the new jersey u. S. Attorney, who bill barr wanted to install instead as a temporary leader in charge of sdny when he was trying to fire u. S. Attorney geoff berman there. This all fell apart when u. S. Attorney geoff berman pushed back on what barr was trying to do. He went public with what barr was trying to do. He wouldnt go quietly. He insisted it would be his own deputy at sdny who would take charge at that office, not some guy barr was bringing in from the outside. Again, carpenito resignation announced tonight just minutes before we learned that barr is also resigning. It may just be a coincidence, but barr is out, as is the guy that barr used in that sort of hit job where he was trying to decapitate sdny, while, it should be noted, sdny was reportedly investigating the president s lawyer, rudy giuliani. I mean untangling the mess left behind by bill barr at the Justice Department and the way he blatantly, brazenly used the Justice Department to serve the president personally, to settle political scores for the president , to go after the president s enemies, to protect the president s friends, wading in personally to multiple u. S. Attorneys offices to stop or to derail prosecutions or sentencing that was potentially going to pose a threat to the president in terms of the president s own criminal exposure i mean unraveling all of this stuff is going to be its going to be a lifetimes work in terms of the amount of mess that he was able to create inside the storied department of justice. But as of tonight, barr is out. So long, farewell, auf veeder sane, good night. Some some republican u. S. Senators are now finally acknowledging that president elect biden is president elect. People like missouri senator roy blunt, who now says, quote, we have gone through the constitutional process, and the electors have voted. So theres a president elect, by which he means its biden. And senator john thune of south dakota, who said, quote, at some point you have to face the music. And i think once the Electoral College settles the issue today, its time for everybody to move on. Senator Shelley Moore capito of West Virginia saying, quote, its time to turn the page and begin new administration. Republican joni ernst going the classy route saying, quote, i know for iowans its disappointing, but the process is what it is. It is what it is. And this year the process was weird and threatening at every turn, especially today as the electors met in their various states and in the District Of Columbia to cast their electoral votes to officially make biden and harris president and Vice President elect. Today was weird and threatening in terms of the way the process goes because of how President Trump and the Republican Party have handled themselves since the election. I mean this was the start of the day today in michigan. This was a radio interview conducted by protrump republican state representative by the name of gary eisen. Listen. You cant keep me from going into the capitol on official business. They cant do that, okay . So if they do that today, then were simply going to move our event to a different location and proceed what were going to do today. And whats that . What event are you planning . Whats that again . What event are you referring to . It will be all over the news later on. This sounds dangerous, gary, and im not kidding around. It is dangerous. I was warned there is going to be violence, theres going to be protest. And they asked me if i would assist today, and i said, you know what . How can i not . Who asked you to gary, who asked you to assist, and what kind of assistance are you providing . Okay. Originally it was to support and escort certain members in and out of the capitol, okay . And i cant go into a lot of it, but and i was asked to do that. And i said, yeah. Were talking to state representative gary eisen. Im concerned about violence today in lansing. I understand your passion about this. A lot of people are passionate about it. Can you assure me this is going to be a safe day in lansing, nobodys going to get hurt . No. All right. I dont know because what were doing today is uncharted. It hasnt been done. Its not me doing it. Its the michigan its the youre part of it. Its the michigan party. Youre part of it. Im just here to witness. Well, you said you were asked to help and participate. Well, help as far as they said supporting, being there, and that kind of stuff. Showing that i support what theyre doing, so all right. Theres more to it than what i can say right now. Can you assure me that nobodys going to get hurt . No. No, i cant. No, i cant. They told me theres going to be violence. They told me theres going to be protests. They asked if i would assist today. I said yes. Can you assure me nobodys going to get hurt . No. Its not just me. Its the whole michigan Republican Party. Its michigan republicans. Were going to the capitol, and, yeah, were expecting violence, and im not saying nobodys going to get hurt. Thats an elected republican official in the state of michigan. That state representative after those remarks today was stripped of his committee assignments. He later apologized for his remarks and said they had been confusing. He says he did not go down to the capitol today. What did happen at the Michigan State capitol today was a group of republicans, including some other republican state representatives turning up at the door of the State Capitol, demanding to be let inside as electors even though the state of michigan chose the democratic slate to be its electors, not the republican slate when biden and harris won the election in michigan by more than 150,000 votes. Republicans in the state of michigan apparently really do not care. They turned up anyway. They want the states Electoral College votes to go to trump anyway. So today at the State Capitol, they wanted in. Per the capitol commission, per the governors house, per the speaker of the house, per the speaker of the senate, the capitol is closed were electors. Were electors. The electors are already here. Theyve been checked. Not all of the electors are inside. The capitol is closed. The gop electors im so y sorry. The capitol is closed. Michigan republicans trying to get in to the State Capitol today to cast electoral votes for trump as republican electors even though there is not a slate of republican electric torz in michigan because trump lost michigan, so theres a democratic slate of electors inside. Michigan today did have its real electors cast its real electoral votes. All 16 of them went for biden and harris, and that happened today officially and really. Just like all the states did that trump and his supporters have been raving about ever since biten and harris won them. Wisconsin cast its electoral votes for biden and harris today. Pennsylvania cast its electoral votes for biden and harris today. Georgia, arizona. But it did get weird. In arizona, i kid you not, republicans in arizona sent a forged certificate of ascertainment to the National Archives in washington pretending that they were the real electors from arizona and their votes for trump are real and should be counted by the United States senate. Literally they sent a forged document. This is from the Arizona Republic today. Quote, fake electors try to deliver arizonas 11 votes for trump. Heres the lede. An Arizona Group set the National Archives in washington, d. C. Notarized documents intended to deliver wrongly the states 11 electoral votes for President Trump. Mesa resident lori oziki, age 62, helped create a facsimile of the certificate of ascertainment that is submitted to formally cast each states electoral votes. She told the Arizona Republic, quote, we already turned it in. We beat them to the game. So the real electoral votes wont count because we sent in a fake set of them first. We were earlier. The actual arizona electors cast their votes for biden and harris today. And the fake republican electors and whatever they do it doesnt amount to anything legally, right . I mean legally, i suppose, its possible the consequence of that might be significant if they get charged with a crime, something having to do with forged government documents. But they werent real electoral votes. The real arizona electors today cast the real votes for arizona. They did have to meet at a secure, undisclosed location for safety reasons. Same thing was true in wisconsin. The real electors in wisconsin were told that they needed to come into the State Capitol through an unmarked side door in an obscure part of the State Capitol for their own safety. In michigan, one of the real electors, one of the democratic electors today turned up to cast her electoral vote. She wore a bulletproof vest for her own safety today. Republicans in georgia and republicans in wisconsin and republicans in pennsylvania all ceremonially cast fake electoral votes for donald trump today. The real electoral votes in all of those states were cast today for biden and harris, but republicans held ceremonial, like, fake pageants where they fakecast votes for donald trump just in case or because thats the world they want to live in, so theyre pretending those are the real votes. White house adviser Stephen Miller said in an interview today that multiple states where biden won will have alternate electors, alternate electors, who will pretend that trump won those states even though biden won those states because somehow they think having alternate, fake, republican states of electors from all these swing states, that will somehow help them when they try on january 6th to not count the electoral votes when they formally get conveyed to the u. S. Senate. I mean theyre working theyre working all these things, right . Theyve got their fake republican electoral slates all ready to go and doing stuff in states that biden won, so there arent any republican electors. I mean this is not Getting Better over time. Things are not Getting Better in terms of the republica