is. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. to our viewers around the united states and the world, thank you for sharing this very important sunday. joe biden is america's preelect and he has a sweeping mandate for change. >> the people of this election have spoken. they delivered us a clear victory, convincing victory. a victory for we the people. we've won with the most votes

ever cast a presidential ticket in the history of the nation, 74 million. >> the fireworks display in wilmington, delaware came four days after the polls closed and it celebrated both victory and history. >> while i may be the first woman in this off because every little girl watch, tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. >> the president-elect's speech was short on policy promises, focusing first on the outreach to the 70 million americans that voted for president trump. >> i understand the disappointment tonight. i lost a couple of times myself. but now let's give each other a

chance! it's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again. >> that effort and unity though faces many, many obstacles. this chief among them. president trump is in no mood, just yet, toing assent the results. i won the president, by a lot, one of tweets saturday. trump attack dog rudy giuliani promises hearings even though there's no evidence of improcedure pryty. president getting congratulations from europe and but most are noting acknowledging victory so the questions are many, how the question transitions to power and when the president understands this fight is loss and what happens to a couraging

response to the coronavirus pandemic in the 73 days before the transfer of power from one president who ignores the pandemic to the new president who promises to tame it. >> our work begins with getting covid under control. we cannot repair the economy, restore our vitality or relish life's precious moments hugging our grandchildren, birthdays, weddings, graduations, all of the moments matter most to us until we get it under control. i will spare no effort, none, or any cometment to turn around this pandemic. >> with us now, jeff zeleny,ly start with you, i want to show our viewers the front pages, i'm an old print guy, the "philadelphia inquirer" biden wins. it was the state that 3u9 him over the top. the former vice president, now

president-elect, announce this hour, he promised to put together a coronavirus task force. what does joe biden do in the next several days even as he awaits to see if the president will accept the results. >> john, joe biden is moving forward. he's going to announce tomorrow as we know a coronavirus task force, 12-member task force to really refocus the nation's attention at the biggest challenge at hand here. that is going to be the chief topic he's pursuing. and it was clear in his remarks last night here in imwithington, as bright as his optimism was, be as bright as those fireworks were, the question is, in any of this possible in this divided era. that will be the central question hanging over all of the former vice president now, president-elect's dreams here. but he did reach out for calls and echoes are of is community.

he gave republicans space to accept defeat but question is how long? he's not waiting to move forward. you will see swift action every day this coming week, holding briefs and really stepping into that role first and foremost on coronavirus. >> i want to get to some of the big politics challenges but first there is history. "the arizona republic," we have not yet called arizona but biden is leading there. it would add to his electoral college win. and you see senator kamala harris there. you can see especially the black women in the crowd but all of the democrats in the crowd, many of them in tears at this moment because america will have its first female vice president and first woman of color as vice president. that's righ >> that's right, john. we can't overstate the history of the moment that is kamala harris's election as vice president and something that president-elect biden talked about last night and something

that harris herself talked about last night when she was remembering her mother, who had since passed and saying she was thinking of her last night and all of the generations of black, latino, white, native american women who have helped push her and other women like her to this moment in history. that's certainly something to be remembered and to be marked. and she's also expected to carry this roll with her as she and biden tried to work with potentially a divided congress. her history in that congress will be something that i think biden leans on a lot as well. >> and the sweep of this imperfect e impressive, jeff. i want to put up for our viewers just to show you, joe biden promised he's the best candidate to rebuild the blue wall. he did. he won wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. he's leading, we have it great here because we haven't called it yet, georgia and arizona. that would be flipping five

states in a congressional district, flipping 74 electoral vote. joe biden says that gives him a mandate but we have an uncertain future. democrats will likely lose a few seats in the house and yet you're hearing, your reporting matches up with this morning, he will rejoin the paris climate accord and reverse president trump's withdrawal from the world health organization, he this repeal the ban on immigration for many muslim majority countries and reinstate the program allowing dreamers who are brought to the united states illegally has children to remain in the country. do we expect in the early days executive actions to get started or is there a big biden congressional initiative in the first 100 days as well? >> john, we can't fully answer that question until after january 5th. those runoffs in georgia, if democrats happen to have a runoff in the senate, they would

like to pursue some of these things legislatively. if they do not have a narrow majority, which is probably more likely, they will pursue more conservative actions. this is someone who spent the majority of his life in the senate, legislative branch. this would not be the top priority or choice for joe biden to pursue things in an executive way but he also spent his most recent years of service in the government in the executive branch. he knows how divided washington is. this will be a test, i'm told there are his priorities but the question is timing. it may not happen on day one but it depends if mitch mcconnell is the senate majority leader or not. and that relationship, john, will be so important to everything between president-elect biden and mitch mcconnell. they've been friends and allies and enemies also at the same time for a long time but in this new divided era, can that work or can can it not? we'll see. >> one of the interesting things as we wait, joe biden said give

the president some space and we will see if that comes today. hillary clinton publicly conceded after she called election night the four years ago and publicly conceded the day after. we will bring if this sunday brings changes in posture from the president. and even though leaders of the own president's of the uds do. i want to put up from benjamin netanyahu. joe, we had a warm and personal relationship for nearly 40 years. the prime minister in boris johnson from the uk -- i look forward to working closely together on our shared priorities from tliemt change to trade and security. angela merkel, no fan of president trump, said the american citizens have decided. he becomes the 46th president of the united states of america. i wish him luck from the bottom of my heart. world leaders say this is over. ready to turn the page. listen here, steve scalise, important member of the house

leadership says, not yet. >> why hasn't north korea and alaska been calling for donald trump as well as senate races? curious there when they're both strong trump states that aren't even included in these total. look, there's a lot 6 game left to be played here. you look at al gore and george bush. ment that wasn't decided until the second week in december and here we are in early november. >> the last part there gets to the possible, possible court challenges ahead. but most of the lawyers, even republicans that looked at it, don't see anything to challenge, no widespread evidence. the first part is political posturing, we haven't called north carolina or lalaska. we can give the president north carolina and alaska and it doesn't matter. the president still loses convincingly. >> and he knows exactly what you said, john. if those were added, trump still doesn't have 270. biden still wins.

the longer it takes president trump as well as republican leaders to acknowledge that biden is now the president-elect of the united states, prolongs, what we were just talking about, prolongs the ability for the country to try to come together and trump supporters themselves toing acement the results of this election. and so world leaders, as you noted, are already signaling that they know this is the result. that they are accepting this result. and it is in stark contrast with the republican leaders themselves are not doing that instead helping trump push claims of fraud, the fact he won't accept the election outcome, and the damage of that to the american electoral's ability to move forward is something we don't fully know the ramifications of quite yet. >> not squiquite yet.

i'm grateful to both of you, it's been a long week for bong of you. i'm grateful for your time. thank you very much. and coming up -- unlike president trump, other candidates who came out on the short end of the count, refuses to accept it. >> the people have spoken and we respect the majesty of the democratic system. i just called governor clinton over in little rock, and offered hi congratulations. we will get behind this new president and wish him -- wish him well. >> i'd say to president-elect bush that what remains a partisan rancor must now be put aside and may god bless his stewardship, this country. this is america. we put country before party. we will stand together behind our new president. >> senator obama and i have had and argued our differences and he has prevailed. these are difficult times for our country. and i pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many

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. it took a few days to get there but america as spoken and its verdict is quite overwhelming. remember donald trump's victory four years ago, pennsylvania red, michigan red, wisconsin red, arizona red, georgia red. fast forward 2020, here's where we are, presidential election now, joe biden, rebuilds the democratic blue wall. haven't called it yet but he leads ga, state that has not gone democratic since "brooklyn nine-nine" -- bill clinton 1992. this is even more compelling, joe biden more votes in a presidential election than any candidate in american history. he also leads president trump in the popular vote, that's not how we pick a president, but it's 4 million and counting. but you remember early election

night the president was leading in all of these states because of the way america voted in this pandemic. election day vote, overwhelmingly for the president. mail-in ballots take longer to count and that's why joe biden flipped michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, pulled ahead in georgia and pulled ahead in arizona. the results are convincing, joe biden will be the next president of the united states. listen to president trump. he said i got 7 million votes more than any incumbent president, he's correct about that, but he doesn't want to acknowledge the map, because as it changed, he didn't like what he was saying. >> if you count the legal votes, i easily win. if you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. we were winning in all of the key locations by a lot actually, and then our numbers started miraculously getting whittled away in secret. there's been a lot of shenanigans and we can't stand for that in our country. >> joining us now with the

reporting and insights, mary haberman of "the new york times." and sun kim from "the washington post." there's noefds of shenanigans, there's just not. what the president says, if they have something, there are courthouses across america they can go and prove it. i see in your reporting over yesterday essentially there are some people close to the president coming to him and saying, sir, the math is clear, we need an off-ramp. where do we stand on that this organize sunday morning? >> this sunday morning we're still in the same position we were yesterday, which is the president a.s you say, is refusing to accept the results. that does not mean -- i want to be clear -- he will barricade himself into the white house which a lot of democrats have feareds is going to do. he will leave by everyone i have talked to to count but what he's not doing is letting his team let go of legal challenges for which he, he said, there's no clear bases of fraud so far and judges in a number of suits have

been very skeptical of what the trump has been up to. what i talked to described this basically as appeasing the president and letting him get this out of his system. i suspect it go on several days but into december? probably not. >> and at least the public attorney rudy giuliani said we will file a lot of lawsuits. you see him contesting this, that and the other thing. you look at history and put up a graphic, it's very hard to overturn the result of the election. even if the president overturned one state, unless it's pennsylvania, he won't get them. you see 250 elections, 2 counts, zero reversals. senator, 349 elections, 4 recounts, 1 reversal. we see the margin is widening. at what point does the president acknowledge the math or do you just fight it out? >> he fights it out publicly for some time as maggie said, to go

through the motions of showing is conducting the election results. but at some point reality will set in. i'm not sure we expect the president to give some sort of gracious concession speech like we've seen in the presidents past. i'm not sure that you will see that traditional meeting with the outgoing president and president-elect in the white house the last four years ago and traditional lunch and coffee with the first lady. but he will sort of come to terms with the results at this point. i think that's why you're seeing a lot of congressional republicans say silent on vice president biden's victory. they are kind of taking their cues from the president right now. you have not heard a lot of republican lawmakers, republican officials congratulate biden on his victory. we will see how much -- the cues later this week when republicans return to capitol hill to see if there are more willing to say look the results are what the results are. but it is kind of interesting to

see that silence coming from the republican party at large. >> and throughout the program, i just want to know, america's verdict on this, this is -- i'm sorry, "detroit free press." michigan stayed critical to the election four years ago and went to i.d. boo u. biden, by a pret overwhelming margin. and maggie, you write, the presidentry that began on the birthing of barack obama appeared on the edge of the lie about him returning. we assume there's a period of sulking and acknowledging. my bigger question is what about the 73 days of governing. the country is in the middle of a pandemic that the president's been ignoring for months. >> that is a good question, john. i don't expect the president will make up and decide now he's the moment he's more concerned about tending to the coronavirus pandemic as opposed to all of

the months he spent minimizing it heading into election day. what somebody in government said to me they expect is going to happen is the president likely will take a trip to mar-a-lago, his private club at west palm beach florida in the coming days. he will not leave his job early but likely check out to some degree. he will not be hands on in the way we've seen previous presidents try to fifthish up loose ends or try to make sort of things happen in the final days. there's the question, will he fire a bunch of cabinet officials who were appointees who signaled he was looking at before the election? i think his energy for that was a lot hotter before election day than certainly it is right now. we have to see but i can see a world where you see mike pence stepping up a lot more to have to fill certain obligations to handle certain aspects as leading with pence world coming in the transition.

>> someone acknowledging the science and facts in the country would be nice. and seung skkim, you say the republican's space, he get it, he got 7 million votes and many are afraid of him. but let me ask, will there come a point that country comes from party? will the president 24, 48 hours past still won't acknowledge the math, will leaders step forward and show a little spine? >> there will come a point for some of the party. i mean, people, for example, mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, has not said anything yet except for somewhere comments on friday morning saying he believes the votes should ton to be counted. but people close to mcconnell tell us once it becomes clear, once the legal challenges fade away, once it becomes clear the president's team cannot produce evidence of fraud, mcconnell will make it clear that, you know, trump has lost the election and go from there. but you also have to look at the

other wing of the party too. who are vying for the presidential nomination in 20204. you saw how so many mobilized so quickly when donald trump jr., the president's son, said he's looking for support from people who are seeking the national spotlight in four years and you see members of the conservative members of congress rallying behind him. donating to the legal fund. echoing the president and president's team rhetoric about potential fraud for which there is no evidence. >> thank you very much and we will come back and a little more ahead the road ahead for the president-elect and republicans. meanwhile, congressmen who back governor biden say he owes them. more on her take next. when panera's chef claes makes a pizza,

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crossroads. progressives want credit for closely pushing the turnout. and they want their response. alexandria oscasio-cortez -- if the party believes that we went to 94% and after so many people in philadelphia, the signal from the john party is that john kasich won us this election, i mean, i can't even describe how dangerous that is. and this is john kasich, the former governor of ohio, who endorsed biden.

>> the far left can push him as far as they want and democrats have to make it clear to the far left they almost caught him this election. people are center, center right. they're not far left and they're also not far right. >> with us this sunday democratic congresswoman omar. first, congratulations on your own re-election and victory in minnesota. the president-elect and your party face a choice here, joe biden campaigned as someone who would be an american president. he's reached out to republicans and says he will continue to do so but people from your wing of the party, progressive wing of the paeft, andrty, and i know yd hard for joe biden, said we won this election for you, sir. how will you work with us first? >> good morning to you, john and thank you very much. i think for us right now we're all relishing in the fact that darkness over our country has

been lifted. what joe did was invite the better angels of this country to come and participate. we were all very clear-eyed about what the task was. we wanted trump out of office, all of us, not only wanted the decency back but we wanted the opportunity to govern with somebody who would listen and respond and i believe he made it clear yesterday or last night in speech that he's looking forward to governing with all of us. >> let's listen to a little bit of that. joe biden at the beginning of the campaign, a lot of progressives thought this is not the guy, this guy does not represent the energy in our movement, this is not the guy to turn out to get trump. in the end he was consistent on his message and he's now the president-elect of the united states so he thinks he proved something. this message last night was at the end of his campaign just the same at the beginning.

let's listen. >> let this glimmer of demonization in america begin to end here and now. refusal of democrats and republicans to cooperate with one another is not some mysterious force beyond our control, it's a decision, a choice we make, and if we can decide not to cooperate, then we can decide too cooperate. >> when it comes to progressives like yourself, what are you looking for in the sense that we show the president-elect's top priorities, everybody hopes, i believe the whole country hopes, i hope republicans do as well, we do a better job taming the coronavirus, that will be priority number one. he said he wants the new stimulus package to help people not only only deal with the coronavirus but big fallout on it. the president also disagrees with you on health care.

he is not a fan for medicare at all and wants to build on obamacare. he said your plan is too ambitious, said it's urgent but a more moderate proposal. what is your test? what are you looking for to see from joe biden to understand how important your piece of the party was to his victory? >> so last night we not only celebrated an historic win of, you know, the first black woman, south asian daughter of immigrants who will become our next vice president, but we also celebrated the message that he sent in putting her on the ticket as the co-sponsor of the green new deal and medicare for all. and her being on top of that ticket did not cost us the election, it actually won us the election. you know, every swing candidate

who got the majority in the red-to-blue victory that we had in 2018, who sponsored medicare for all, won or is on track to win their face. and all of those members who are part of the progressive caucus who are also in those swing districts won their races or on track to win their races. that tells us the republicans are using to develop a narrative to start to create wage between democrats is really something we can allow to stick and that narrative to get hold. what we understand in this election was that we had one job. that one job was to get rid of trump and to give ourselves the opportunity and the privilege to lobby the you?

administration on the policies that we know resonate with so many people. fox news themselves did an exit poll and it shows 70% of americans want government-run health care. it showed 70% americans wanted the climate crisis to be addressed. we've seen things line creasing minimum wage win as a ballot measure in florida, while some democrats lost. we've seen policies like legalizing marijuana win in montana and other places. and so to me this sends ace message to the collaboration to the full governance to this upcoming administration that our policies are resonating with the american people, and if our big tent democratic party wants to govern on behalf of all americans, we should have a seat at the table.

>> you mentioned, you called it a republican narrative. as you know signed your own family there are some democrats who disagree with you. some of the more centrist democrats lost their seat. i want you to listen to your colleague, abigail spanburg, one of the central democrats, who said it's hard for those kind of democrats who live in those districts where there's enough republicans and president trump might be popular, and she seems to be saying it's hard because of people like you. listen. >> i think we need to be pretty clear about the fact just from a congressional standpoint it was a failure. it was not a success. if we don't mean we should defund the police, we shouldn't say that. we should not ever use the word socialist or socialism ever again. while people think it doesn't matter, it does matter and we lost good members because of that. >> how big will the fight be, alexandria oscasio-cortez, your friend said it's time for a ruckus. progressives should have the

ruck ru ruckus now that biden won and trump is gone, let's have that family fielt. how big of a family feud coming? >> the reality there are some of these candidates and went out and rami rallied with black livs matter and thought it was convenient, even cute, some of even took pictures with protesters who had signs that says defund the police and when those pictures went viral, it complicated things for them. this message that they are sending that we stand with you when we think you are going to be helpful to us and we are going to condemn you when there is a challenge really isn't the message that we should be sending to our base that delivered us the white house and allowed us to maintain governance in the house. i mean, i just think about even

my own state, tina smith, who just won her re-election in the senate, angie craig both had candidates who ran ads against them really awful, violent ads against them, and they both prevailed. when you are disciplined, when you have built trust with the people that you serve, you will withstand every attack that comes against you. for us it's about figuring out what our message should be, how we should be disciplined in that message, the message shouldn't be to attack one another and to allow the republicans who benefit when we are a divided house to have the last word. >> let me ask you in closing, it's not my job. i watch the political fiext it's not my job to take sides so i'm not getting into policy issues but your personal story compelling, incredibly compelling. the president tried to make issue of that saying you were

part of the problem, you didn't belong here. you were part of the problem. the vice president is the 23i6r9 woman of color, a somebody with a very diverse background, but how do you say this moment getting someone like this with history in the west wing. how do you see the moment? >> it's such a hopeful moment. i watched her come to give her speech with my 8-year-old daughter. and the first thing she said to me was this is someone who looks like me, mama. we can't lose sight of the fact representation is powerful, that she has now allowed so many little girls, not just in our country but around the world, to see themselves as somebody who can ascend to one of the highest

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is an example of the kind of america that my dad wanted to bring me to and the kind of america we all want to raise our children in. >> thank you very much, i suspect we will have a few battles ahead but we will get through them, of course. thank you very much. >> thank you. the president lost the election but not his grip on the republican party. guess what? that complicates everything. if your dry eye symptoms keep coming back, inflammation in your eye might be to blame.

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the colors and numbers here speak for themselves. joe biden, more than 74 million votes. he's more than 4 million ahead in the popular vote. not how we pick presidents, of course, but joe biden on track to win 25 states plus district of columbia, perhaps 326 electoral votes. that's a stunning loss for president trump. but pennsylvania, it does decide the election. when pennsylvania was called for biden, that was it, put joe

biden over the top. yes, joe biden is winning the state. lookty numb looking at the number, going back to 2016, you come back now to 2020, this is a defeat for the president and yet he still proved among republicans he's a powerhouse. he turned out more voters across many places in the country, even in defeat. which is why even though he will have to leave the white house in 70-plus days there are many around him who think he might be back. >> folks are starting to realize wait a second, if donald trump loses he might be the guy and tell you i absolutely expect the present to say involved in politics. and absolutely put him on the short list of people who will run in 2024. he doesn't like losing. >> maggie haberman of "the new york times" is back with us and scott jennings. scott to you first on that question, this is a complicating factor now. this is one of the reasons the

republicans won't say mr. president acknowledge the results and lead. it's also going to be a giant complication for joe biden if donald trump every day is tweeting. mitch mcconnell don't do this, mitch mcconnell, don't do that, et cetera. what is the state of republican party right now with this president perhaps out of the white house but omnipresent? >> the republican party will have to come to grips with the fact he actually changed the complications of the party, brought in new people and will rekindle the relationship he's driven away. it is a hard thing. the reality is 93% of the republican vote, he ran a much closer race than a lot of people thought was possible based on the national polling, and republicans really do like his attitude even if his policy influence will be waning once he leaves the white house. my advice for donald trump frankly is you have a chance to bounce back immediately. the next couple of big thing that's will happen in this country could happen on his watch.

he has a chance to leave office on an upswing, political upswing if he helps them hold the senate majority. he's got a lot of influence and a lot of bounce-backs that make him really relevant. >> maggie, he has uncertainty instead. there are investigations in new york. there are other questions as well. he will lose his immunity against not bringing a case against the president of the unit united states. you see don jr. tweeting the he local laks of action for the gop hopefuls, where is the backbone? the trump family wants him to fight and hold office. to me it's a fascinating question. has to leave the white house, that is inevitable, whaut doebu

does he do? >> that's a great question, john. some that will again how he handles the next two months does he try to get in the coronavirus relief package? i don't see how his involvement will help things because he was not seen as an additive in previous discussions but it's certainly possible he can see a benefit in trying to do that. it's going to depend on what he wants and how involved he wants to be in the next two months. there's a coming of runoffs in senate georgia races to try to get involved in those. there will be elections in 2022 he can try to get involved in. i think it remains an open question of how he departs. i said many times, he's not barricading himself inside the white house. i think i hear a concession that is somewhat akin how he gave a quote/unquote apology for the birther lie about president obama where he said basically

that wasn't true but i was right in the end to do this. will you hear something like that. at a certain point it will depend how much republicans discuss the point they recognize he brought in new voters but he does not get everything republican vote cast for the presidency and how much they want to expand so they can have a party that's more unified without a party is moving beyond him to some extent. >> scott jen eggs, from a governing perspective, you used to work with mitch mcconnell, does he do what he did before or do we get some of this? >> obviously, i don't always agree with him but i do trust with him implicitly. he doesn't break his word. he doesn't waste time telling me why i'm wrong. he gets down to brass tacts and he keeps in sight the stake hes. >> can that washington with a little trust resume or is that a relic of the past, scott? >> i can't think of two better people to bring that back than mitch mcconnell and joe biden.

if these guys really want to do it, they can heed the results of the election here, which is neither party has the power. the voters don't want either paerlt to go too far, so they pin the ears back of the democrats in the house and give the democrats the house and let the republicans have a big say in the senate. if you want deals and pragmatic people, mcconnell and biden have done it so i have a lot of hope they will be the pair that does that again. >> we shall see that if that happens in the days ahead. thank you both for your time. up next for us, the pandemic breaks records for the new daily case count above 120,000. ♪

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. one giant challenge in this time of presidential election. the pandemic is getting dire and more dire. let's take a look at the map right now. a different map this presidential politics. 42 states trending in the wrong direction right now meaning new coronavirus infections now compared to a week ago. it's everywhere. you see it 42 states. eight holding steady. zero. no states, none of the 506 states heading in the right direction. this chart is just depressing. you see the first peak in april. summer surge. yesterday another record. 126,000 new infections reported in the united states. you don't need the numbers. look at that red line heading straight up at a moment of crisis for the country as we await a presidential transition. 30 states hit a record in their seven-day average of new cases in this last week. thirty of the 50 states hitting a new record of new in facfecti

this past week. 22 states reporting record hospitalizations. the crisis is krog the country in a presidential transition. look at the positivity map. red states, blue states. this is pain in lots of states. 37% positivity in idaho and 34%. 53% in south dakota and 36% in iowa and 37% in kansas. more people are getting tested or coming back positive and means more cases today and more infections tomorrow and it spreads. sadly, as the cases go up, the death trend starting to head up as well. since election day 5,000 americans have died of the coronavirus. let's talk about of this urgent challenge ahead with dr. shaw, dean of the brown university of public health. grateful for your time, doctor. i'm troubled by this moment in the sense that president trump frankly has just stopped paying attention to thpandemic and he' be president for 70 plus dated.

joe biden is the president elect. >> thanks for having me on, john. we are in a difficult situation as a country. those numbers pointed out we have hundreds of thousands of infections happening, if we do nothing, we are going to get to a point where i'm guessing between now and inauguration day as many as 100,000 additional americans might die. so we do have to act and we have to act now. the first thing i think is congress needs to pass a bill that gets money to states. i'm not expecting a lot of action out of this white house. but states can lead and they need resources. what mr. biden can do is do a lot of signaling. instead of just him or his little leaders speaking up we need to hear from the scientists on his advisory committee. clear communication to the american people about what is ahead and what they can do to stem this tide. >> the worst five days i want to show you here, the worst five days in terms of new infections come in the last ten days and

including four this week. wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday. you see it right there. what do the american people need to do if their president is not engaged in this until we get a new president? what must the public do whether you're a trump supporter or biden supporter? >> the virus doesn't much care who you voted for or whether you voted at all. what people need to do is understand that the next sttwro three months, probably the hardest of the pandemic people need to be careful and keep their gatherings to a minimum. do i think one of the major places virus is spreading is indoor gatherings. people are getting relaxes and having friends and family over. those are causing big outbreaks. people need to figure out how to curtail that and keep activities outside. wear a mask all the time when you're outside of your home. those things are absolutely critical. >> dr. jha, thank you for your time and we will talk again in the challenging weeks and days ahead. that is it for us on "inside

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