Like unusual bruising. Eliquis may increase your bleeding risk if you take certain medicines. Tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures. Ask your doctor about eliquis. And if your ability to afford your medication has changed, we want to help. Good day, everyone. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Lets get right tow what is happening out there. As americans are marking joe bidens projected victory by gathering in the streets, this is black lives matter plaza in washington dc. The president there not to see them. You see him there playing golf, but as he hits the links, the country is closing in on an alarming new milestone. Right now there are more than 9,966,539 total cases. 238,000 lives taken. On monday we will announce this, you know the covid task force, if you will, and bring it into a plan that the government can use. So joe biden will make good on his promises on the campaign trail. Also new today, as soon as president elect biden takes office, he will take actions to reverse several of President Trumps action rs. His campaign with now seven active election related lawsuits right now including a new one in arizona this weekend. I understand why the president wants to keep on fighting. I do believe that it is destructive to the cause of democracy to suggest widespread fraud or corruption. Theres no evidence of that at this stage. It is important to recognize the world is watching. Its time for the president s laurens to present the facts and its time for those facts to speak for themselves. George w. Bush the only other living republican president releasing a statement congratulating president elect joe biden. He says the American People can have confidence that this election was fundamentally fair. Its integrity will be upheld, and its outcome is clear. The challenges that face our country will command the best of president elect biden and Vice President elect harris and the best of us all. We must come together for the same of our families, neighbors, nation, and future. However there are still some in the president s orbit defending his election fight. I think that is way premature at this point. At this point we dont know who has prevailed. The media is trying to get everyone to kcorrinate joe bide. The media doesnt get to select the president , the American People get to elect our president. Right now by nbcs count, joe biden has 279 electoral votes, however that lead could still grow. Were still watching vote tallies come in from four states that nbc has not yet called. President biden leads in two of those. Lets go right now to wilmington, delaware. Ali vitali is joining us from wilmingto wilmington. It is busy for biden and harris, what is the plan . A weekend of celebration and right into the work on monday. The biden harris elected administration saying they will put in place a 12 person task force to tackle the coronavirus ahead of their inauguration. We heard from months now about a fivepoint plan they would like to put in place. Now theyre starting to lay the groundwork to do that. They want an accidentble plan to draw upon. President trump will still be the person at the helm of this governments response to the coronavirus until january. So the former Vice President , now president elect, the president elect now highlighting how important the pandemic is going to be in the biggest political speech of his life speaking to the stakes of this moment. Folks. Our work begins with getting cove vid under control. We cannot prepare the economy, restore our vitality, or relish lifes most precious moments, all of the moments that matter most to us until we get it under control. On monday i will name a group of leading scientists and experts as transition advisors. Alex, the team ready with that task force. I have been so struck by the response to what happened after the democrats called this election. You showed some of them there. Mitt romney, former president george w. Bush accepting the Election Results saying they spoke with joe biden and Kamala Harris. The president and his team still dug in ready to fight this and see what goes on next. Youre seeing in those clips too, theyre still backing what theyre doing there. I think the person that stood out the postto most to me has B Chris Christie saying if youre seeing allegations of fraud bring the evidence. Otherwise it is a slippery slope there. Were going to see what happens next. They may be just forging ahead. Were going to bring up chris kristy and what he was saying in just a moment. Lets go to kyra lee who is joining us from the white house. Im curious about the messages that theyre getting from people. You hit it just right. A lot of mixed messages. Both publicly and potentially privately. The president made clear that he wants to fight. There is more lawsuits, all playing out, at least some of that will play out before there is amovement from the president. He is putting a lot of republicans on the spot. He is putting them on the spot. Were seeing mixed messages from democrats. Just listen to what Chris Christie and senator Lindsey Graham both allies of the president said today. This is a contested election. The media doesnt decide who becomes president. President trump should not concede. There is a lot of shenanigans going on here. I would take all of this to court and i would fight back. If your basis for not conceding is voter fraud, then show us. If you cant show us we cant do this. There are others that feel similar. That there is a burden of evidence, an they nude to produce that evidence before they go out on a limb for him. Privately Jared Kushner has been telling him to go and continue to fight. We know there are others around the president that urged him not to concede until voting is certified and recounts are needed. Some others are more gung ho. He said when we heard from him moments ago, he said when does the lamestream media call who our next president will be. It is worth noting that four years ago when the process played out the president was more than happy to accept the results that were announced when he was president elect. He is of course not doing that now. Were also hearing from the first lady, melania trump, put out a tweet calling for transparency saying every legal, not illegal vote should be counted. All of our reporting shows and based on what the president says publicly, he is continuing to fight and this is not going to wrap up for him any time soon. Okay, carol lee. We have a preview of what we will continue to hear this. Joining me now is chris lou. I want to add that you were the executive director in 2008. We saw President Trump be invited by president obama to the white house. What are the chances that we will see president elect biden invited to the white house. What you have seen him do in the last couple days is he wants to delegitimatize the election with no proof. We have serious problems. Not just an economic rescission but a pandemic. The ability to solve the solve the problems. On noon, several thousand political appointees will leave. There needs to be cooperation to ensure that our National Security is protected in that time. How does a transition happy and what are you worried about not going smoothly . This is a very odd tradition. You would never run a company or a university this way. When on one day everyone leaves and on the same day all of the other people come in. It is ensuring that the functioning of government continues. It is staffing the people that will take these positions and it is the policy proposal thats will come out from the new administration. Many of which they will start the preview. But it is especially difficult in this period of time. In 2008 we had to deal with a recession. The biden impact will cause them to do this in a virtual setting. But i will say this, if there is someone that can pull this off it is joe biden. He has a deep understanding of government and he is surrounded by a lot of people with a lot of government experience. Chris lou, i always love talking to you. Sad news to share from the entertainment world. Alex trebeck, long time and respected host of jeopardy died after his long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was surrounded by friends and family as he died at home early this morning. This is jeopardy. Alex trebeck was synonymous with the quiz show that called itself americas favorite. Alex trebeck. When he first took at jeopardy stage in 1984 he was already a successful onair host. His career began on radio close to home in canada. Reaching for the top. He hosted a bilingual quiz show, but with his degree in philosophy he found a niche in game shows. He set the rod for the most episodes by the same host. He had five emmy awards and the native countrys second highest order. He lived most of his adult life in los angeles. Between tapings in the studio, a relaxed trebeck would often talk to the audience. Im looser than people think i am. Dont take too many things too seriously. He had brain surgefully ry afte suffering from a fall. Then he announced he had been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. I have to because under the terms of my contract i have to host jeopardy for three more years. He already thought about his replacement. Its probably going to be a woman. Somebody younger, somebody bright. Somebody personable. As a man with all of the answers through a record breaking career, he was, without question, one of tvs most enduring personalities. He was 80 years old and our thoughts are with his family in this heartbreaking time. Heartb. [ beeping ] [ engine revs ] uh, you know theres a 30minute limit, right . Tell that to the rain. [ beeping ] for those who were born to ride, theres progressive. President elect biden says unity and healing is the top priority for his administration. Selt seth moulton is joining us. We welcomed you to the show last weekend. Good to see you again. Im curious to see what went through your mind when you saw that biden and harris had done it. I felt a tremendous sense of relief and patriot activism. America is back to its roots, doing the right thing. Hopefully youll look at this era when we made some mistakes, but ultimately we came together to help the American People. If you look in the totality of everything congressman, only about four million votes separate the winner and the loser. What are the prospects to bring people together after such an energized contest that saw a Record Number of americans out there voicing their opinions at the bat lot box. This is a hard task for the next president of the United States. One thing i always said about joe bide season that he is a unifying leader. If there is one person today who can bring together americans from all other this country, and get us unified to put the Country First and do good work for the American People it is joe biden. That is what he has done his entire career. We all have disagreements with him. I have had disagreements with Vice President biden myself specifically on issues of foreign policy. But he will listen. He will listen. And he will find Common Ground. And that is what americans all over the country need to do so we can move forward out this this divisive time. We ask to ask what we have heard about as we listen to the congressman who sounded the alarm about the more progressive wing. Lets listen to two of your colleagues this morning. Harrison, started to plateau when defund the Police Showed up with a caption on tv across his head. That stuff hurt him. Thats why i spoke out against it a long time ago. Not a Single Member of congress that im aware of campaigned on socialism or defunding the police this general election. So the question that we have is how can we build a more effective democratic operation that is stronger and more resilient to republican attacks. Some im curious what is going there. You have jaime clayburn, and he is saying Jamie Harrison lost his race because of his projected defund the police rhetor rhetoric. And then you have aoc saying not so much. Jim clyburn is a very wise man. Im sure he understands what is going on in south carolina. Aoc has a point as well here. We do need to improve our operations to withstand the ridiculous republican attacks. I certainly didnt run on socialism. Very far from it. That is what i was tarred by tarred with by my republican opponent. Those attacks are out there and they are coming from the republican party. But we have to be unified to get things done and i think we will do that especially under joe bidens leadership. There is a lot of americans right now that just want to see congress do the right thing for the country. They want to see congress do the right thing for the country. Im reminded of a world war ii veteran that said if you win this election promise me would go to washington as an american. Not a republican or a democrat, but as a american. There is no time when i have been proud tore be a democrat than in this moment, but we have to come together to governor as americans and to put our Country First and fund enough Common Ground to get things down for an American Public that needs us to accomplish a lot of things. And lets call a spade a spade here. If there is one person in washington that doesnt get this, its not representatives sp spa spanberger. Mitch mcconnell has continued to be a roadblock to progress. He he will be the roadblock. And it will take a lot of unity among democrats to make sure that we can push through that to do the good work that the American People need us to do. What about the House Speaker ship. You challenged nancy pelosi, do you plan to do so again . No, this is a moment where we need unity. If there is one thing that Speaker Pelosi is good at it is keeping the party ahead. It means that party yupty will be even more important now than it was last year. I trust nancy pelosi to be able to hold our party together. And of course it is challenging. Were the majority party. Were a big ten party. We have the majority of views under that tent. And it will be good debates. That is healthy for our party and for the American People. Take health care, for example. All democrats want to make health care an unalienable right for the American People. But we have some debates about how to get there and they will continue under the bidenharris administration. Nancy pelosi can hold us together to have those debates in a healthy way and to come together and pass legislation to send to the senate, ram it through Mitch Mcconnell, and get it to president bidens desk. That is what we need to do on health care, on climate, on coronavirus relief, on strengthening our economy, modernizing our National Security. Im excited to get to work. Were excited to have you on the broadcast. Thank you so much. Coming up, a socalled trumpism that is here to say. Where we are now as a nation. But first saturday night live celebrating joe bidens win in last nights episode, take a watch. Tonight, were not going to stand here and gloat. Were not rubbing our victory in everybodys face. Like just a tiny bit. Were accepting this victory. 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It is a great question. It all depends on what that relationship is between the trump base and trump himself. We know that sdrump not goingdop will not. He still has a Record Number of votes for a republican candidate and they are going to carry on living in a alternative fantasy world where it is not over. So unfortunately i think were going to see a lot more resistance. And even after he concedes, and i use that word in a loose sense. You will see the entire trump base basically not accepting joe biden as a legitimate president just as they didnt accept barack obama has a legitimate president. That is part of the play. Politically delegitimatizindele. And many people did not accept donald trump as a legitimate president , right . Do you think in the last five or six days, has it helped to quell the concern about violence . If you have been here in new york everything is borarded up. There was no reason really, there was not those kinds of violent outbreaks and things. So the in fact this has trickled out, has it helped to deal with the potential unrest. Things were boarded up partly because people thought that antifa and others would be breaking into buildings. As the fbi and dozens of other experts will tell you that is farright domestic extremism and it still persists. You saw twomen last week arrested in philadelphia with ar 15 assault rivals and 160 rounds of ammunition, qanon propaganda all over. It will be a focus point for groups to object to. A democratic governor, several farright extremists were arrested because they were trying to kidnap and murder the democratic candidate for michigan. Lets take a quick look at where the popular vote stands at this point. Joe biden with more than, let