i'm going to go over and open the senate. we have another stakeout after lunch, i'll be happy to take your questions then. >> important breaking news. mitch mcconnell there speaking after a republican meeting. welcome vuriewers in the united states and around the world. you just heard from the top republican in the united states senate, he is trying to say don't worry, be calm, there's nothing unusual, those are the words, about president trump refusing to accept the results of the american election held a week ago. the leader rightly so says any candidate has the right to file allegations about the election process. he is right about that. one week after america voted, team trump says there are irregularities, but presented no evidence. the leader saying let the president challenge the results. up until the electoral college votes in january when the

electors send votes to washington to pick a new president. here's where it is unusual. even if, unlikely, incredibly unlikely, joe biden won pennsylvania by more votes than donald trump did four years ago, even if they reverse that, joe biden is winning here, leading here, and leading here. president trump would have to overturn results in two, three, depending how it works states, depending which states win, at least two, maybe more than that. it is highly unusual because the math is the math and the math is irrefutable. still the republicans standing by the president for now. let's bring into the conversation the congressional correspondent, manu raju. jeff zeleny with us as well. manu, i get it. the president is the leader of the party, but what i found interesting, he brought the words electoral college into the conversation, essentially trying to give the president more time. many have said wait a couple days, if you have your suit, file your suit. mitch mcconnell seems to be

opening a long ramp here for the president. >> reporter: he is saying there are opportunities for the president to challenge the election and depending how this turns out, ultimately, no matter what, the president decides to mount here, come january 20th, if joe biden is the president, he will be sworn in at that time. he is trying to down play concerns that have been raised about the process and also suggests that the transition will happen in an orderly manner, even as the biden team has raised serious concerns about the refusal by the trump white house to green light efforts to allow the transition to happen. mitch mcconnell does not seem to share those concerns. i can tell you talking to other republicans as well, they are not at all concerned about what the biden team is saying, that there could be serious concerns of national security and other matters, filling critical posts, if some of those requisite paperwork is not signed off, if the trump white house does not

allow the nuts and bolts of the transition to take place. republicans are not joining the concerns, thinking things will just simply turn out. the fact of the matter is, john, no one knows what the president will do. they know the president is upset, they talked to the president. they know they need the president's support when it comes to georgia senate races. they don't know what he will do if the court decisions don't turn out the way he wants, will he simply step aside, allow the transition to happen at all. republicans hope that elsie the writing on the wall if these things don't turn out the way he expects but they simply don't know, they just expect things will go orderly, john. >> thank you. i want to walk through the math. the republicans hope the president sees the writing on the wall. it is the math on the map is what the president needs to see. the math on the map. this is the track we're on. we haven't called georgia yet. joe biden leads. nevada in the biden column, so

is pennsylvania. that's the state that put the president over the top. 306 is the likelihood of the outcome. we haven't finished in arizona counting the votes yet. let's say, for example, the president had a challenge and contested pennsylvania. took those away from joe biden. it is still not enough. simply still not enough. what if he challenged georgia, too, took that away. it is still not enough. unlikely, never happened. overturn two different states. if biden holds onto mepennsylvaa and the president challenges georgia, the president has to take arizona off the map as well? he would have to take arizona off the map and have to take nevada off the map, and guess what, even if he did that, it wouldn't be enough. one, two, three states if they don't overturn pennsylvania. that's the absurdity of the math, it is absurd unless you take two or three, maybe four states off the map which never happened before. the republicans giving the president a wide band width to continue so far a week after

election day unsubstantiated, no documentation of any widespread irregularities which poses a challenge for the president-elect, joe biden. he is trying to plan a transition in the middle of a pandemic to take power in ten weeks. jeff zeleny is with us for that. jeff, it is clear, it has to be clear. joe biden has tried to say give them time, i'm going to make deals with these people, everything will get back to normal. they have to know now in the biden campaign there's not going to be any grace here. so what is their strategy. >> reporter: they do know that. if there were questions, the president-elect would have to weight until january to find out if he was walking into a new washington, he doesn't have to wait. he is seeing it now play out in real time. so the thinking inside the biden transition team i am told is to keep moving forward, making announcements. we'll see and hear from the president this afternoon, here in wilmington, talking about importance of the affordable care act, of which he can do little about. that's in front of the supreme court. we heard the oral arguments all

morning. they are moving forward on this. they're also still considering legal options, particularly for this reason. there are $6.3 million in funding set aside for either side, whoever won the election, any election in transition funding. that's used for staffing, used to bring people up to speed on background briefings, getting the government ready. nothing to do with democrat or republican, has to do with who the next president will be. exists regardless who wins. biden team realizes they may have to fight for that perhaps illegally. who knows if that will turn out. one thing about transitions, this is not a governor elected to come to washington to try to figure out the levers of government, this is someone that served in the government as vice president for eight years and in the senate almost four decades. this is an operation that knows and understands how the government works. that's run reason why it is not as dire as if it was someone coming inside from washington, but john, no question there's a

sense of for all of the calls of unity, they're met with resistance from the president. you talk to senate republican aides privately, they believe and hope the president sort of moves on, goes to mar-a-lago or something and moves on, drops this. but they don't know if that is so. the biden team for now will proceed, move forward. it is a central question of if they're going to be able to set up the government. we should point out the reason it matters again, it is not partisan, it is because the government needs to be set up. we learned in the 9/11 commission report after september 11th, 2001, one of the things was the government was not formed. god forbid if there was an attack on february 11th, as was brought up in the hearings that you and i remember well, that's why this matters, getting the government ready. it has nothing to do with who's in office. >> jeff zeleny, appreciate it. that's an important point, functioning of government. you need a coordinated transition. also basic common courtesy, respect for math and respect for

america's role in the world. jeff zeleny, thank you. let's continue the conversation with dana bash, chief political correspondent. i went through the math, i have been doing this 35 years. you don't overturn leads the size of pennsylvania or leads the size of georgia. even if he overturned one of them, it wouldn't be enough. he would have to overturn several states to change what is a fact, joe biden is the president of the united states. this is the president on his favorite platform. we are making big progress, results come in next week, we will win. watch for massive ballot counting. ballot counting abuse. twitter flagging anything he says about the reaction, this is the reality of the world we live in. the president lies and is lying there. what is the thinking. is there anybody close enough to this president to convince him look, even if we flip pennsylvania, sir, it is not enough. even if we flip georgia, sir, it is not enough. joe biden won michigan by more than 140,000 votes, sir, it is a

pipe dream. >> there are people trying but he is definitely not a receptive audience right now, that is evidenced there on his twitter feed. >> an understatement. >> he is not a receptive audience. the other issue is that he has people around him who are yes people. he has people around him who are saying fight the fight, don't give up, don't give up, don't give up. some of those people are the ones that told him that before 2016 and ps, he won the presidency. there's some of that. but also, just who donald trump is. he is not somebody who was brought up to accept defeat. he is somebody who was brought up by a father that told him there are two people in the world, people who succeed and fight and then there are just losers. he doesn't want to be the latter. the issue is because of that, he is taking the republican party

on this path to no where legally along with him and you heard from mitch mcconnell earlier and you watched was mcconnell walking what he considers to be a mine field, a political and procedural mine field because he as you have noted before, he like others in government, they want power. he wants to still be the majority leader. he is looking at the two races in georgia and he understands that if he says to the president publicly or privately explicitly you're done, we're out, the president will not only not help in georgia, he could undermine the republicans in georgia. that's the last thing he wants. >> so the vice president is up there for the senate republican luncheon, vice president pence. he tweeted support of the president's strategy yesterday, doesn't use the same language. just because it is gentle language, it is still the same. four republican senators, mitt romney, susan collins, ben

sasse, lisa murkowski in not trump supporters camp. democrats, listen here, two of them saying we wish our republican friends would relearn math. >> it is critical to keep moving forward with the transition process, to do everything the transition team can to force acceptance of reality. meantime, the trump administration continues to do everything they can to distract us and frankly to undermine the health of americans, even in the middle of a pandemic. >> it is time to move on. i think people within the white house know that, people within the family structure know that. they're just as scared to tell him the facts of what we're dealing with. >> what is the thinking of the democratic party, i guess more specifically because it is more important, the president-elect's top political advisers and president-elect biden himself about how public, how aggressive, how daily constantly because the president uses his

twitter platform do they need to come out and counter, math is math, facts are facts, be responsible. >> there's a hope, not just among democrats who you played but among the few republicans that have come out and said enough, this is not going to go anywhere, mr. president, that that becomes the majority view. that becomes the majority notion in public. that hasn't happened yet. you know, the hope according to one person who i talked to who is in this camp was that if enough republicans follow the george w. bush lead and say okay, we're moving on, then that becomes the reality and every other republican that doesn't get to that point is going to be left behind. it hasn't happened yet. so what you are seeing instead is the same story we have seen for four and a half years which is republicans who know better, who understand not just the

traditions but the imperatives that keep this democracy functioning, they don't speak out. they go along because they think they can do better by kind of following along, towing the line of what the president is doing. and it is one thing when the president says something that's crazy or, you know, goes after somebody, you know, personally and these leaders don't speak out. it is another thing when it gets to the core of what they're doing and what their jobs are and it is not happening right now because they want to keep power. they don't want the two seats in georgia to flip to democrats because they make the trump base which is the republican base angry. and there's no other way to say it. simple as that. >> it is simple as that. power, lust, and fear taking principle, precedent now over math. just simple math. joe biden won the election. dana bash, appreciate the

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the numbers make it more numbing, above 120,000 katcases a daily basis. seems to be a regular. in the summer, was around 60,000, first wave below 30,000. right now, 120,000 katcases and counting. with more people infected, yes, more people in the hospital. approaching 60,000 there, average above 50, between 50 and 60. early in the spring, summer surge, 60 was the highest. we are days away from blowing past 60,000 americans in the hospital on a daily basis from coronavirus. this is why. higher positivity rates, more cases, more people are likely to infect others. this is across the country. 48% of people in iowa that get a coronavirus test are coming back positive. 34% in wyoming. 39% in idaho. even nevada, 12%. anything above 5 is bad. utah, 18%.

alabama 20%. pennsylvania, 16%. florida 7. that's better. better than 50. but still above 5 which is where you do not want to be. here is one of the issues from the beginning, especially with more cases. you need more testing. yes, the number is higher, averaging 1.5 million tests a day now, but public health experts say we need many more. listen to dr. anthony fauci here. we are eight plus months into this. >> right now, what is driving the outbreak in the sense of essentially people coming in the home, small groups of people, 8, 10 people, meeting together with friends for a dinner, not knowing one of them is infected. once you get enough testing out there in the community, you'll be able to get those people identified and get them out of circulation for the time being so they don't infect others.

>> doctor, it is good to see you. help me on this. eight plus months in, you hear dr. fauci saying when you get enough testing out in the community. why is that still a when? >> it is mind boggling. this is an abject failure. this is the first thing we should have been doing back not only march but january when we knew it would be a problem for the united states and we still have the same conversation over and over again, we're not testing enough, there are testing shortages, turnaround time for outpatient tests is too long. we need to be able to test at will. hopefully someday at home so we can know our status, so we know don't go to this dinner party or restaurant. we know at any given time if we are infectious or not. we are still a ways away from that. hopefully we will finally take this seriously. we are running hospitals back into crisis. none of us wanted to see that happen again. >> so fear i think shared across the public health community is that people here, vaccine,

efficacy, 90%, coming soon. they think great. i can let my guard down. listen to secretary of health and human services describing, critical for people to listen. this will not happen overnight. there's a long roll out here. most americans have to wait. listen. >> i would be thinking in december we would be focusing on vaccinating the most vulnerable. we have to look at the data and see which groups but focus on the most vulnerable. by the end of january, we would have enough for all our health care workers and first responders and by end of march to early april, we should have enough for all americans not just pfizer but of course the other vaccines in the portfolio. >> that's four or five months down the line. and thank goodness for operation warp speed and thank goodness drug companies got in and are having success in the case of pfizer and others to follow, but that's four or five months. what is the danger between now and then? >> that people look at this as

some kind of pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, but the rainbow is farther away. we'll have tens of thousands of death that occur between now and when the vaccine is available. we can't stop doing what we're doing with the hope the vaccine will save us. there's a lot of time, a lot of illness. hospitals could go into crisis during that period of time. we have to continue to do the social distancing, wear face coverings, wash our hands, worry about congregated, crowded places. we have to keep it up until the vaccine is available. if we don't do that, we will in the interim put our hospitals in a place we don't want to see them where they are rationing care. >> and the administration testing czar, again, the thing that frustrated me, and i am just a layperson, i don't have your expertise, month after month, week after week, they talk as if it is an urgent crisis, they have been on the job for months. listen to his take on screening students. >> schools are opening quite successfully across the country

with minimal transmission. we do know that school testing, although it's important, very few states, very few states or districts are actually screening students. there's limited screening of staff. that priority is probably less than we thought before. again, we have to assess. we are in a pandemic, we'll work with states to adapt their plans and move forward. >> is that acceptable or do school districts need to be doing a better job of screening students and staff in. >> well, we have so far not seen major outbreaks linked to school. see it with extracurricular activities, sports, cheerleading, those types of events, not the educational component. that's one good thing. in order to have schools open and be sustainably open, have teachers feel confident they can teach in person, we need to have testing in schools. otherwise, no one will feel safe and they'll feel like they're dodging a bullet. especially if they open a school in an area where the community has a lot of spread. the school can't help but be

engulfed by what's in the community because people live in that community. i think this is one way to move forward with schools and move forward with a host of activities if we have the ability to test at will. just go and buy a test at the drugstore, keep them in your house, be able to test. walk up to a place and get them. we are far away from what south korea could do in february and march. >> sad statement when you put it in context like that. reminds us of the failure in the rearview mirror. hope it gets better going ahead. grateful for your insights. the supreme court mulling the fate of obamacare. but now a friend. still an electric car. just more electrifying. still a night out. but everything fits in. still hard work. just a little easier. still a legend. just more legendary.

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the supreme court today hearing oral arguments on the future of obamacare, insurance coverage for millions of americans could hinge on this decision. with me now to discuss, professor of law at university of texas law school. good to see you. one of the questions, the chief justice talked in some oral arguments about if we strike down this provision, can't we leave the rest of the law intact. many people think this is about the heart, the pumping heart of the affordable care act. if you strike it down, it is done, the entire act. jumping in to weigh in, trump appointee brett cavanaugh. >> i'm sorry to interrupt. let's assume for the sake of

argument, assume i don't agree with that and we get to severability. i tend to agree with you on this is a very straightforward case for severability under precedents, meaning we would excise the mandate, leave the rest of the alct in place, reading the severability. one of my questions, do you think that would be the right result under the 2010 act or did that change in 2017 or how would you assess that. >> explain the significance of that to viewers because the reference to 2017 is when congress came back after the previous supreme court ruling. >> that's right, john. i think in 2017, congress zeroed out penalty for the individual mandate. someone who does not actually follow the individual mandate today faces no consequence. that's why most focus on this case has not been on the fate of the individual mandate, rather whether as the district court held, the whole statute has to fall. that is to say the medicaid

expansion, coverage for pre-existing conditions, hiv and aids programs. when justice cavanaugh this morning expressed that sentiment that he agrees that the individual mandate can be severed, he is basically telling everybody i am going to vote to sever the mandate. john, that's a good sign there are at least five votes, including cavanaugh, chief justice, three progressives, to leave the rest of the aca intact, couldn't have gotten a clearer statement from the court. >> listen to cheethe chief on t. he saved obamacare before. >> general hawkins on the severance question, hard to argue that congress intended the entire act to fall if the mandate were struck down when the same congress that lowered the penalty to zero did not even try to repeal the rest of the act. i think frankly that they wanted the court to do that, but that's not our job.

>> pretty clear what he is trying to say to your point from the previous, he is trying to recruit another vote or two. he needs one or two more of the conservatives. when you hear cavanaugh agreeing with roberts or tacking along with him in arguments, does that necessarily mean you have his vote or do justices sometimes give us a faint in how they question during arguments? >> john, we have seen fanlints before. you can't be sure from the argument. i will say when a justice like cavanaugh says i agree, not just in the clip you played but later in the argument in colloquy with texas' lawyer, he came back and said it more strongly. i think we can walk away pretty confident there are at worst five votes to sever the individual mandate. that doesn't necessarily mean the court will strike down the individual mandate but that the worst case scenario coming out of today's argument is that part of the aca is thrown out but the rest of it remains intact. that will be a big sigh of relief for millions of americans. >> have to wait a few months for

that decision i suspect. grateful for your insites as they hear argument today. coming up, president-elect biden waiting for concession from president trump but has other worries too. a bit of a family feud in the democratic party. ♪ you can go your own way

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an interesting family gathering today for house democrats. the democratic congressional campaign committee will brief fellow members this afternoon on last week's losses. as of now, more than a half dozen house incumbent democrats lost bids for re-elections. they still maintain the majority

in the house but there's been inter party fighting between moderates and progressives who is to blame for that. good to see you, congresswoman. in the meeting today, if you have to make a point about what happened and what needs to be done, what would you say? >> you know, i think i would cow on my experience as a naval aviator. used to do mishap, the point wasn't to assign blame, the point was to dig deep, figure out what went wrong, how we can fix it. we need to all move forward together in the caucus. we have a lot to get done. if we use the next couple years to fight each other, we won't be able to get on a path that really helps the american people. >> if the president-elect is watching, he may want to make you secretary of state. that was diplomatic. you understand what's happening. look, i have been here a long time. fights within families happen. they happen. we're in the thanksgiving season, christmas season.

we are all used to it. there has been finger pointing. more moderate members like yourself say they threw the socialism at us, medicare for all, listen. >> all us members that are part of the progressive caucus who are also in those swing districts won their races, are on track to win their races. >> i disagree with the notion that it is the fault of progressives, especially when you look at how much progressives organize across the country to help joe biden win. >> i spent a lot of time at maps. i know your district is different than their districts. how do democrats come together and say look, we all have to give. or can you, given the size of the caucus and some people come

from places more liberal than you do. >> i think we can do that because there are so many things we are fighting for. we want to make sure we are handling the health care crisis, the pandemic in the nation. we need to get past it so we can handle the economic crisis. we are delving deep into how communities of color fared so poorly and how we can make sure everyone has access to prescription drugs. these are things everyone in the caucus want to fight for. we can do that together. i think there has to be an understanding. if we want to get that accomplished, if we want to get legislation passed that improves the lives of the american people, we have to hold tough districts. we have to hear from people in tough districts about what just went on, how hard it was, why that was difficult. let's face it. we have a president who has just basically run for four years on

dividing the country, on fear mongering, and really scared people in many areas into voting for him. what was it that scared people about the democratic party, how can we do better because we're working so hard for the people of this country. i think we've got to be laser focused how we continue to do that, but we also want to make sure we fight for the right things, that we're fighting for what people care about. because we are not connecting in some ways in tough districts. >> congresswoman, an interesting family discussion. we'll see if it escalates from there. appreciate your time. congratulations on re-election. >> thanks so much. coming up, preelection polls again miss the mark. $9.95 at my age? $9.95? no way. $9.95? that's impossible. hi, i'm jonathan, a manager here at colonial penn life insurance company, to tell you it is possible.

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the map, well, it speaks for itself a week after election day. joe biden on track to win 25 states, perhaps 306 electoral college votes and giant win in popular vote. 76 million plus for joe biden. 71 million for donald trump. that's not how we pick presidents. joe biden is the president-elect, will take over the white house in ten weeks. but once again, thought there was a big blue wave, didn't

happen. thought the democrats would pick 10 or 15 seats, didn't happen. thought dwa a lock to take back the senate. not yet. two runoffs in georgia in january. some polling was just plain wrong. joining us, margie omera, and neil newhouse. let's start with the national polls, not how we pick a president. we came into the last days of the election. neil, i go to you first. national poll of polls, safe way, five or six polls, you don't invest in one, you have a ten point joe biden lead. here's what happened. 51% if you round up to 48% if you round up. three point biden victory. neil, your firm did a detailed survey election night. you believe this is because of what you call the president is not shy, but there are shy trump voters out there. >> i think two factors. shy trump voters. election night survey showed

they kept support of trump secret from friends. these were married women, suburban, higher educated voters. people you might find it socially embarrassing to admit to friends they were supporting trump. the second, more important factor, i think the group we call poll deniers. these are voters that listened to president trump rail against polls for five years, believe that polsters have an agenda that doesn't include them. they believe they're up to no good and produce fake polls. they refuse to cooperate. that's one reason they're underrepresented in national and state polls. they're left out because of personal choice. >> anyone watching, i have known neil and march ggie, they're no to no good. they're nice people. margie, so democrats win back the blue wall, pennsylvania, wisconsin, they're happy.

that's why joe biden is president and takes out the bragging rights president trump had in 2016. in polls heading into the states, wisconsin average biden was up 10. won by .6. show you the margin in a minute. pennsylvania, plus 6. michigan plus nine in polls, he won by three. just again to zoom in on pennsylvania, 49.7 to 49.0. what happened and is this unique to trump is my question? neil mentions shy trump voters, people are afraid to acknowledge publicly or to a spouse or friend they're a supporter. is this unique to him or a problem in the industry? >> there's a lot to unpack here. first is we don't know the answers. it will take awhile to examine and look at people who actually voted getting voter file coded so you know who is an actual voter, compare to folks' assumptions. it is a couple things to point out. first, we don't know exactly how off the national polls the state

polls were on some compared to results, we're still counting ballots in a lot of places. it is possible that polls were a little more off in senate races than the presidential contest. that suggests it is not just about people lying about trump per se, it is something perhaps and this is just a theory, requires more investigation about who is in your universe, the data you collect. it is less about whether or not people are telling a polster something different. i appreciate neil's new finding. i think you need all hands on deck to think it through and ask a variety of different questions. those are people in a survey that said they are trump voters. are they really the shy trump voters that would have led to a poll saying something different than what the outcome suggests. >> i am trying to figure it out myself. i do this, predkictions and

sometimes do you it different in terms of who you're talking to out there. neil, in florida, the average had biden plus three, the president won. texas, had the president plus two, won it plus six. iowa, president plus two, won it by eight. io ohio, he won by eight. how much is a polling era. the president kpacampaigned aggressively in the end, they worked and turned people out. >> even our polling showed the president came on late, he won late deciders. weren't many late deciders, but won them by about 20 points. there was an energy around the trump campaign late that biden campaign simply didn't have, a lot because of the rallies. you combine that with the fact that there were these poll deniers that refuse to respond

to polls, accounts for a decent amount of difference between what happened and those statewide polls. >> margie, what happens now among democrats in the sense that a lot of democrats based on public polling tlaut there was a blue wave coming. how mad are democrats at their polsters? >> so i think, you know, first, you know, people are looking to figure out what we do next, right? this is an important point to come together, to celebrate a biden victory, think about what's next for the democratic majority in the house, focus on races in georgia, how to heal and bring the country together rather than point the fingers at folks. another important thing to remember, too, it is not democratic polling or republican polling, public polling, presidential, senate polling, there are a lot of polls out there that are often in similar

ways. some states polling error was smaller, some states larger. the questions i think intro specs that needs to happen in the industry like after '16 where things were remedied in '18 should be done across the industry, not one party or the other. >> we will learn as we do from the last one as we go forward. anyone watching, they're here because they're among the best in the business in my view. coming up, senate majority leader praising mark esper one day after the president fired him. when we started carvana, they told us

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today, earlier in the program, mitch mcconnell standing by the president, saying he should take his time if he wants to contest election results. moments ago, the same majority leader speaking out in praise of mark esper. majority leader not weighing in why esper may have been fired, but listen to this from the floor. the president fired him in a tweet. senate majority leader says esper, good guy. >> when the senate considered esper's nomination, i said you could hardly invent better qualifications to run the pentagon than his resume. this leader has stepped up when his country needed him. the secretary brought integrity, expertise, and steady leadership to the pentagon's top job.

>> thanks for spending time with us today. hope to see you here tomorrow as we go through this interesting week. don't go anywhere. brianna keilar picks up coverage now. hi there. i am brianna keilar, welcome to viewers here in the united states and around the world. prel president-elect biden's team is considering legal action for refusing to accept the results and begin the presidential transition. he is getting no backup from the senate where mitch mcconnell is backing trump's refusal to accept the outcome of the democratic election. >> until the electoral college votes, anyone who is running for office can exhaust concerns about counting in any court of appropriate jurisdiction.