king in washington. thank you very much for sharing this very special day with us. it is veterans day, federal holiday to honor all of those who served in the u.s. arm forces, all of those who served to protect our democracy. it is traditional, of course, for the commander in chief to pay respects by laying a wreath at arlington national cemetery. president trump is on his way to do there even as he actively attacks and undermines the institutions our veterans, past and present, risked and risk their lives to protect. president-elect biden also saying -- i will never betray the values you fought so bravely to defend. i will never treat you or your

families with anything less than the honor you deserve. we haven't seen president trump much in the eight days since election day but husband tweets and his team claim the election was a fraud and that he won, the vote count and facts backed up by election officials of both parties across america tell us there's zero evidence of major fraud and that the president lost. joe biden is the president-elect and in exactly ten weeks and one hour he will take the oath of office. the soon to be 46th president of the united states will inherit a divided nation and a spiraling pandemic. look here, the united states breaking more records both for total daily new infections and for hospitalizations. 45 states report new infections right now on the rise. the pandemic is a life-and-death example of why a smooth transition of power is essential but the president and his team are defiant, again, despite zero evidence of any wide scale fraud. team trump is suing michigan, where the president lost by nearly 150,000 votes.

today it rushed out a statement alleging four dead people voted in georgia. four. the president trails in georgia by more than 14,000 votes. president trump's post election spike includes a management shake-up at the highest levels of the pentagon and he's getting support from republicans who fear him or who want to stay in his good graces because of their own future political ambitions. that includes the secretary of state, america's spokesman to the world now looking on with shock. the president-elect said he's going to ignore this trumpian folly e. and folly, and he thinks you should too. >> there will be a smooth transition to the trump administration? >> i don't see a need for legal action. there's no assertions made by the president or secretary of state pompeo. >> so this is the map and remains the map despite what you hear from team trump eight days after election day. and they say there's fraud everywhere to be found.

we have reporters, other major news organizations have reporters checking in on all of this and it's simply not the case. let's go through some of the case. trump made up some ground on arizona, joe biden lead 12,814. it was above 14,000. they're still counting legally cast ballots. counting votes and tabulations. joe biden still ahead but it's come down a little bit in arizona. let's come to the east, pennsylvania, biggest of the battleground states decided late. this put joe biden over the top. 47,591 votes he's ahead. this lead has been growing modestly. they report a couple hundred votes here, dozen there, couple hundred there. sometimes the president goes up a tiny bit but mostly and including out of philadelphia today, joe biden goes up. as i noted at the top, this is not in play anymore but team trump somehow says it's going to overturn the results in michigan with a suit alleging fraud, 148,645 votes. let's say they find 10, 12

ballots, maybe 100 or 200, 168,645 votes. and this is history, a democrat hasn't carried georgia since bill clinton. joe biden views this as a statement, 14,112 votes ahead now. that lead has been growing a little at a time as they continue to count legally cast ballots. team trump, the state's republican senators are all mad at the secretary of state, all mad at the secretary of state, who said a short time ago, i'm doing my job. we are going to have a recount because it's so close, 49.5% to 49.2%, yes, we're going to hand count all of those ballots. double-check, that's what happens in a democracy. he said he still sees no evidence of fraud and if you have seen it, please, bring it to his attention. >> my office will continue to investigate each and every instance of illegal voting. double voting, felon voting, people voting out of state, if you report it, we will investigate it.

every legal vote will count. let's begin the hour with our chief political reporter dana bash. i may have to interrupt when we see the president at arlington national cemetery. just want to warn you. and now the georgia section said he's doing a recount. and i want to hold up "the new york times" so everyone can see it, contacting officials in all 50 states. trump refuses top spod but trump's winning texas anyway. you have republicans in this article, election officials in this article all across america saying no widespread fraud but team trump thinks we're going to press on. help me with their math, because i've done this a while, and it doesn't exist. >> it doesn't exist. i also want to say for people who are not familiar with the protocols of newspapers, what you just held up wasn't just a big story, it was a banner headline, which doesn't happen for people who are not used to modern-day newspapers, reading it online, it doesn't happen very much and it only happens

when media organizations see something really big and that is really big and important. there is no widespread fraud, full stop. there isn't even medium spread fraud. it isn't existing. there is no math to answer your question. republicans on capitol hill know it. republicans in the governors' mansions across the country know it and state legislatures. they're not saying it in public. they know it. what they're trying to do still is allow the president to work through the process. their hope is the answer will come from judges in some of these places where the trump campaign and rnc are suing to try to get answers. if not, they will come in the storm of states certifying their results. pennsylvania, for example, that is a week from monday, november 23rd. so that is why they think they have some time, but it's certainly allowing for a big, big vacuum that is making some

people extremely worried. >> right. and among the people extremely worried are democrats who just don't trust this president and frankly see what he's doing in his post election series of grievances and despite turning things off, trump people mumbling about he's going to set up an alternative white house at mar-a-lago. but joe biden himself is chill about all of this. he's essentially saying this will pass, let the president do his trumpian folly. he said he thinks in the end even the republicans standing up saying the president is right, keep counting votes. listen. >> how do you expect to work with republicans if they won't even acknowledge you as president-elect? >> they will. they will. >> is that calm real? is it behind the scenes? does it extend behind the scenes he's so calm about this, or are they just nervous the president will try to find some lever to steal something? >> first of all, if you ever met a democrat, you know there's always nerves -- >> i have met a few.

>> it's in the dna of democrats, as you know. but even having said that, my understanding is it's real, that the former vice president, now president-elect, has been around the block. this is one of the benefits of experience. he knows. he's been there. he knows how this is done, and he knows about the timeline. so in talking to sources involved with the transition, i'm told that for now they think it's okay they're not getting the money from the gsa. for now they think it's okay he's not getting the president's daily brief which is customary to do for a president-elect. i said for now because they feel there is time. now, i was told come back to me in a couple of weeks and if things haven't changed, if the president hasn't accepted the reality in front of him, perhaps they will be more aggressive. but the goal right now from people inside the biden

transition and, frankly, republicans who are privately urging the president to knock it off is the island the president is on will get smaller and smaller and smaller. that may be a big assumption given the history of donald trump. he doesn't give up easily, as we know. >> and he has an echo chamber on another news network and all over the network of his friends and allies saying this is fraud, fraud armageddon happening in the election. again, this is the local newspaper in pennsylvania, postal worker who did a recording with a conservative group saying there was fraud recanted that when he's put under oath. it's an interesting thing when you get put under oath and have to put your job at risk or have to go into a court of law. a lot of trump people saying this is just like 2000 and bush v. gore, it may go to the supreme court, except it's not. i want to read this from andy carr, george w. bush's chief of staff, a lot of people understand him because they

maligned him on the internet -- while the president is fully within his rights to pursue legal recounts, but for the good of everyone watching, america needs to come together for a smooth transition of power. we fought bitterly in 2 000. this election is not like 2000. delaying the launch of the tradition could have real costs. the transition process should begin now. a couple quick points here, it is not 2000 because it's not one state. i went through the map. the president has to flip three states. he has to find fraud, 12,000 in georgia or 12,000 in arizona or if michigan is my big win, okay, reverse 150,000 votes in michigan and flipping one of those states wouldn't do it, flipping two of those states wouldn't do it. it's ludicrous. >> by the way for context, flipping 100,000 votes in michigan where donald trump's victory was 10,074 votes and hillary clinton didn't fight it. that tells you everything you

need to know about where they are or where they are not in this claim that the president says that he has. as much as i'm told by people in the bye transition they're calm right now -- >> dana, i will just interrupt one second. this is president-elect joe biden. he's at a veterans day event in philadelphia, not far from his home in delaware. let's just listen for a minute. >> i'm judge patrick dugan, on the floor of the korean memorial here. i want to ask the 82nd airborne association honor guard to post the colors.

>> and to lead us in our opening prayer. >> split-screen moment here on this important day, federal holiday, veterans day, president-elect of the united states, on the left of your screen the president-elect at a war memorial in philadelphia and president, president trump at arlington cemetery, on the right of the screen for wreath-laying

ceremony. remarkable, as the election is over, president trump declining to concede that point at the moment, but this day should be about veterans. you have the president-elect of the united states on the left, president of the united states can't quite see him, but he's on the right side of the screen here, as we mark this holiday at a very, very contentious time honoring veterans who risked their lives, risked past tense, risk for american veterans today at a time when their commander in chief, forgive me, but it's true, actively undermining the institution of democracy they put on the uniform to protect. let's listen a bit. >> i will now ask head marine corps veteran sergeant tim gwynn

to lead us in "the pledge of the allegiance." will everybody join in. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> i want to welcome our mayor, our president-elect joe biden and dr. jill biden.

if anyone understands what veterans go through, it's their family. their son, think about it, joined the military. who does that now, except you veterans and this family here? it's my honor, i'm going to be presenting this first. >> this is arlington national cemetery. you just pictures of president-elect joe biden at a veterans day event in philadelphia. this is arlington cemetery, just across the potomac river, not far from the white house. some of america's most hallowed ground there. the president and first lady there for the traditional wreath laying. it is a rainy november day here in the washington area. while we wait for the president in this wreath laying, i want to bring in our pentagon correspondent barbara star, and forgive me if i have to interrupt once the wreath-laying

begins. this is sad to say, my dad was deployed in germany and this is a special day for our family and it's just weird to be talking politics at all. but here we are. shake-up in the pentagon leadership right before veterans day by a president, barbara, who refuses to acknowledge the results of an election eight days ago. >> and has installed his own political loyalist here's at the top oval for the pentagon. politics is something the military wants to stay out of every day of the year. let's remember, veterans day is always a good day to talk about this, from the most junior enlisted soldier to the four-star general, mark meili, joint chernl, they serve the people. the president, of course, is commander in chief but this is a nation, they're in civilian

control of the military but the oath of the service is to the constitution, to be remembered every single day. and president trump has made a choice over the years to speak of his generals, his military. i think it is fair to say on this day, it is very much worth remembering, they do not belong to him by any stretch. they belong to the country. all of those laid to rest there at arlington, all of those who are being remembered by the president-elect in philadelphia today, all of these people have taken that oath of service to the nation, to the people of this nation. little ironic the president is attending this on a rainy day in washington at arlington, because, of course, troops stand duty, fight and fall and battle in any weather and you will recall the president took some criticism for moment attending a military service at a militacem

in france because it was raining that day. his view is the secret service would not allow him to travel in the rain. whatever you want to make of it, other dignitaries were able, world leaders able to attend that cemetery on a rainy day. the president now scheduled to appear momentarily in arlington on this day. you see both in philadelphia and in arlington, u.s. veterans, u.s. military standing tall even on a rainy day, john. >> and we salute them. let's straight up, and let's listen in in arlington. [ playing "taps" ]

>> waiting for the president of the united states. i thought he was coming out sooner. these are live and with the weather conditions can be a bit unpredictable. we're watching the president-elect in philadelphia moments ago and the president of the united states here at arlington cemetery. our national correspondents are with us as well. and dan, i said to barbara, i always feel like i into ed to apologize to our veterans. their day, a special day they deserve more than words can describe, is caught up in the middle of this remarkable moment in history in which we have a clear winner of a presidential election, that would be the president-elect joe biden on the left of your screen. on the right of the screen you're about to see the president of the united states who will be president ten more weeks exactly, ten more weeks exactly but at this moment not

only refusing to acknowledge the results of the election but we are seeing his anger in the personnel shifts barbara was just detailing and i know you had great reporting on this as well at the pentagon who unnerved a lot of people who worry in his final days the president will want to do some personal business, if you will, whether or not it's the right thing to do a, a time of transition, or b, national security. >> yes, john. i think there are concerns on a couple levels. one is that as this continues to play out with the election, if unrest continues to perhaps rise again, you raise the concern we go back to june where the president was interested in invoking the insurrection act, putting active duty troops in the middle of america's streets, that is something secretary esper was against and a number of other pentagon officials were against, and now you have new leadership at the top. >> barbara, what is the mood in

the building? look, sometimes at the end of an administration you promote loyalists so they have titles to help them move on later in life to bigger and better jobs and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. it's tradition in politics. it could be that. it could be dan just noted and i know you're reporting tells you as well, some people are afraid these people have agendas they view as counterproductive and they were not able to advance them in the full days of the administration, if that's the right term, because the bureaucracy would not allow those ideas to advance. and in the final days perhaps you can some things through that otherwise might not fly. is that the word? >> i think it's very tough to tell because right now the word you hear around here is uncertainty. uncertainty is something the military does not like. they want to know what's going on. they will follow legal orders. they want to know what the president is thinking and why all of these changes have taken place. uncertainty does not lead in their view to sound, stable military decision making. the president still not

explaining what he has in mind here. one of the things you do continue to hear is he's talked about wanting to bring troops own. he talked about wanting to bring forces home from afghanistan by christmas. that is not the military advise he's getting. the top military commanders think there's still plenty that needs to be done in afghanistan and the u.s. can't walk away from it. so what is speculation, i want to state that, but there is speculation in pentagon hallways, could that be what mr. trump is thinking to make some big announcement that he's bringing the troops home before he leaves office, and basically closing the door for joe biden the president-elect, to have a military strategy in places like be afghanistan? where might mr. trump close the door on military options the president-elect might still wish to carry out? it's one of the theories but, again, right now uncertainty. we don't even know if the

chairman of the joint chiefs has recently spoken to the president. we don't know if christopher miller, the new acting defense secretary, has recently spoken to the president. mark esper was fired by tweet and it was only the chief of staff mark meadows at the white house that was available to give him essentially a five-minute heads up this was coming. so this has been a week of -- there's no way around it -- political turmoil at the pentagon. when they come back from veterans day i think everybody wants to see it calm down but that be will up to the president whether he wants to continue these current atmospherics. >> dan, that's one of the great moments of uncertainty. we have one president at a time. that is the stated policy. on any big national security question the next several weeks, that's president donald trump.

and the bigger question, you see the first lady arriving now, troop withdrawals, troop deployments, big decisions with the nato alliance, if any, normally the outgoing team would be in contact with the incoming team comparing notes. just to make sure the outgoing team doesn't do anything 180 degrees different than the incoming team. let's listen in and i will pick up the conversation in just a moment.

>> present arms! [ playing "star-spangled banner" ]

>> present arms!

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>> the president of the united states making his way off the plaza, arlington national cemetery, after the traditional veterans day ceremony, always a solemn ceremony. you saw the president salute the veterans and turn around also, veterans and their families on hand for the ceremonies as they are ever year.

you see the vice president and mrs. pence, along with the president and mr. trump leaving the plaza. it is a rainy day in washington but always this is a solemn and important ceremony. as we were having the conversation as it began, cemetery at the president of the united states at arlington's national cemetery, america's perhaps most hallowed ground, the president-elect joe biden in philadelphia moments ago. barbara starr is with us and "the washington post's" dan lamotte is with us as well. before we had this conversation, that is an awkward conversation in many ways, but it is the moment in which we find ourselves, ten weeks today the president-elect will take office, ten weeks and 30 minutes from now. and this is what america usually shows is a transition of power, remarkable passing of the torch and leadership role of one president to the next, but at the moment the president refuses to acknowledge election results and refuses to open the process

and when it comes to war and peace, luckily the united states is not involved in an active war but there are troops in afghanistan, uncertain peace pros secretary there, anti-terrorism peace operations around the globe. normally what would happen if president trump was about to make a big decision, his team would reach out to the biden team. they don't have to listen to them, they don't have to accept their advice but we don't have that process. frankly, we talk about the covid pandemic, another area where there should be open lines of communication and information sharing. i don't know what the right word is. it's depressing, i guess the question many people have, is it potentially dangerous? >> in the pentagon the expectation early on was that perhaps if the transition was going to get strained, maybe national security would be different. maybe the military would be treated differently. what we've seen in the last 24 hours is an acknowledgment from the pentagon as well there's no communication with the biden team as yet. for the moment, there doesn't

appear to be a problem. as this continues to play out, it raises the concern it could very well could be. >> barbara, i don't know if this is the right word, but it's a blessing joe biden knows this territory. he has a team around him of people where not only know where the buildings are but many have served in senior roles in the past. does that make a difference even if the lines of communication at the president's orders right now are not allowed to be opened? >> right, i think it does make a difference as you say. they are the ones now with decades of experience in national security and military affairs. there's no question about it. one of the results of what mr. trump did by tossing out all of these individuals, he tossed out decades of experience. he has now brought in relatively inexperienced, including the acting secretary. he is a person who was in the army until 2014, had expertise

in counterterrorism operations, but not the depth and breadth of experience that this country has come to expect in a defense secretary. so you basically tossed out the experience here. what happens next i think very much remains to be seen. general mark milley, chairman of the joint chiefs, is counseling patience and stability to commanders around the world and to u.s. military counterparts around the world. right now adversaries like iran and north korea are being exceptionally quiet. that doesn't mean they're not watching all of this very, very carefully. but they are keeping their head down. they're staying under the radar. there's a sense that everybody i think just wants to get to inauguration day. but that then leaves president-elect biden with quite a menu of items he's going to have to deal with that the trump administration, as you say, john, is not briefing him on.

>> hopefully that situation changes, i will say that and try to be an optimist about it. barbara starr, dan lamothe, thank you for your reporting and staying with us through two events. and grateful to all of you for being with us this special day, veterans and families deserve our tributes and praise and deep gratitude. still ahead for us, the other trouble and giant issue in our country, coronavirus cases and hospitalizations accelerating to record levels. i wouldn't be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior, or worse, that it was some way to take your home. it's just a loan designed for older homeowners, and, it's helped over a million americans. a reverse mortgage loan isn't some kind of trick to take your home. it's a loan, like any other. big difference is how you pay it back.

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. the united states right now breaking records you simply don't want to break, coronavirus cases and hospitalizations on the rise. let's look at the latest numbers. this map, again, it's just

depressing, 45 of the 50 states, 45 of the 50 states, orange and red, recording more new covid infections now compared to the data a week ago. 45 states trending in the wrong direction. four holding steady, one heading down. of the deep red, that means 50% more new infections this week compared to last week. orange is heading in the wrong direction. red is heading in the wrong direction at a crisis point. 50-plus there, georgia in green. some issues with reporting in the data and we show them going down. let's hope they are. part of the struggle here and this is -- i don't know what to say, the red line, trend line going straight up. you see the beginning. we went through this in the spring. summer surge, horrific at the time and now look, 136,325 new infections reported in the united states yesterday. several days above 120,000. that seems to be the new normal and that is a terrible place to be. sadly, with higher cases and higher hospitalizations, the death trend also starting to

bend back up after being -- that's never a good number, i say down as if it's a celebration. many roughly 1,000 americans dyeing a day, 1,415 americans reporting dyeing of coronavirus yesterday, that trend line heading in the wrong direction. hospitalizations, first peak, second peak, both about 60,000 and now record yesterday 61,964, and that trend line heading up like the case count. this tells you everything you need to know. 17 states reporting record hospitalizations just yesterday, on tuesday. if you look at it through the regions here, it's the south and purple up here, midwest in gold, you see it was flat coming back up, the west and northeast doing better but still in the ballpark of 10,000, for the west, sneaking up. the northeast, this is the biggest source of the problem, which is why, listen here, the governor of illinois said we've been through this before but not at this level.

people need to prepare. >> across the state the majority of our regions are seeing far higher rates of hospitalization for covid-19 than they ever did last spring. outside of cook and collier counties, much of illinois' communities are experiencing the worse surge that they've seen yet. >> let's get some important context from our professor at health sciences at the ihme. their projections have been used throughout the coronavirus virus. looking at your chart, i want to put up the state map and all of the maps i look at are depressing. and this one depresses me a lot. this is the strain on icus, intensive care units across the states, 21 states expected to be at a crisis point this month and many others following behind them. blue is january, gold is december. pt how bad is this problem right now? >> it's depressing, john, to say

it. it's depressing and frustrating. what we're having to do is a lot of pressure on our hospitals and right now what we're looking at is the number of icu beds. and the people running these icus beds are also getting infected and may not be able to take care of patients. we have predicted this and been saying it all along. unfortunately, it's unfolding in front of us and quite honestly, john, it's depressing. >> so it's sad but important to have the conversation. i just want to look at the projections going forward. hospital use progression for covid-1916,000 and on november 10th, your february 1 projection is 129,000, more than double where we are now. a, what would the impact of that be on hospitals, not just for covid patients but for other people who need other services

and can't get them because hospitals are overwhelmed? the flip side is, is there anything that can be done to shove that line down, to hopefully prove the projection false by improving behavior? >> is this john, very good point. let me explain one by one. first, what we are not seeing right now is the mean age of infection is increasing, so it means more older people are infected. it means more hospitalization will be required in the future. that's one. the hospitalization we're projecting into december and january right now, if you look at only icu bed use or hospital bed use only for covid-19, not for everything else, we've seen 18 states will have a stress on their systems from covid-19 only. so, remember, our icu units do not take care of only covid-19. we have patients who need icus and need the hospitals. you have cancer and diabetes and vascular diseases.

that will put a lot of pressure on us. what do we do? we ask americans to be sass is fayed by wearing a mask and staying away from each other. please, this is a day remembering people who paid with their lives and sacrificed for this country. we're fighting a different war right now. can we pull together and fight covid-19? can we put together and sacrifice a little bit enough to not overwhelm our hospitals and avoid a disaster ahead? >> dr. ali mokdad, grateful for your insights. i hope we can help people understand their behavior in the weeks ahead. thank you very much. coming up, leadership changes in the pentagon raising national security concerns. bly d and it's made for her she's serving now we also made usaa for military spouses and their kids become a member. get an insurance quote today.

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the shake-up of the pentagon's leadership over the last 48 hours by president trump is raising security concerns. william cohen said these moves not what you expect to see in a functioning democracy. >> he is turning national

security into his personal view of what power really is. he believes he has unrestrained, unconditional power anees going to exercise it. what he's doing, he's undermining our role in the world. >> congressman houlahan, thank you on this veterans day. the whole country owes a debt of gratitude, all who served, and we appreciate it. when you listen to secretary cohen, do you share that? i ask in the context of someone who has been in town a while. at the end of any administration there is turnover, some go into jobs and resume padding. you promote somebody a little bit and it helps them in your future careers. that's not what you see here, right? >> no, absolutely not. in addition to being a veteran myself, i also serve on the armed services and foreign affairs committee. we have these conversations amongst our colleagues well before the election, a concern

exactly this might happen that secretary esper will be removed and there would be a game of moving people in and out who are more allied with the trump administration. so this is concerning. it should be alarming. even normal organizations like corporations it would be alarming for somebody to take over at the head who didn't necessarily have the ability to do that for a very short period of time. so i am alarmed. i think we all should be as americans in terms of our national security and vulnerability. >> i think what backs up your point, if you will, is it's not just a couple of people at the pentagon. the military speaks for the united states around the world. the deployment of american troops around the world, representative of the nato alliance are very important messages to the world from the united states but so is america's top diplomat, secretary of state, mike pompeo. you've probably heard this before. i'm going to ask you to listen to it again. listen. >> there will be a smooth transition to a second trump

administration. >> i am very confident we will have a good transition. we will make sure whoever is in office january 20th has all the tools available so we don't skip a bit. >> what goes through your mind. you're a democrat, he's republican. he's secretary of state right now. he's supposed to represent all of america. forgive me to all of the trump people but the math is pretty clear here. when secretary pompeo says there will be a smooth transition to a second trump administration and laughs, they think it's funny, how does the world process this? >> you know, i think this is striking. this the nation's most senior person in the state department. his job is diplomacy. his job is to know words matter. you cannot joke about things like this in our global standing and in our nation, particularly when it is clear. it is clear what the will of the people has been and we should not be joking around about things like that and he should know better. >> the president-elect joe biden

has been saying this will pass. he views this as trump being trump, a typical tantrum and he believes it will pass in a few days when states start certifying election results like yours, commonwealth of pennsylvania and will come around and embrace him. do you share that or think it's naive. >> no, i don't think it's naive. we're a peaceful people. we can be patient. i believe the results will be certified and we will move forward. i just wish the administration would make it easier on the people because it does cause unnecessary unrest and discord where we really can't afford that. i really appreciate vice president biden, now president-elect biden's calming words, because that's exactly what i expected from him, which was civility and decency we haven't seen here in a while. >> congresswoman and air force veteran chrissy houlahan. thank you for your time today. more importantly, thank you on this veterans day for your service. >> thank you. up next continuing to count votes across battleground states. joe biden's lead is solid, yet

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- yeah it's true. how are you doing? - i'm doing good. i'm encouraged by seeing how people are coming together to help each other during times like these. - kind of like how shriners hospitals for children is there for us. imagine if i couldn't get my surgery. who knows what would have happened. - same for me. i know my shriners hospitals family will continue to take care kids like us who need them most all because of caring people like you. - like me? - no, the people watching us right now at home. - oh, those people. hi people. - kaleb and i know not everyone can help right now, but for those of you who can, we hope you'll this special number on your screen right now. - you'll be making sure our amazing doctors and nurses can keep helping kids like us, who need them now and in the days to come. - your gift will make a huge difference for kids like us. - ooh, ooh, show them them the thank you gift. - okay, okay, hold on a second.

with your gift of $19 a month we'll send you this adorable, love to the rescue blanket as a thank you and a reminder of the kids you're helping with your monthly support. - so what are you waiting for? you can use your phone and call, or go to loveshriners.org to give and join with thousands of other generous people who change lives with their gifts every day. - i think that's about it buddy, good job. - my pleasure captain. please call now. if operators are busy with all the other caring people, please wait patiently, or you can go to loveshriners.org to give right away. - [alec] big or small, your gift helps us all. - [both] thank you. (giggling) - [both] thank you. when panhe doesn't justs mmake a pizza. he uses fresh, clean ingredients to make a masterpiece. taste our delicious new flatbread pizzas today. panera.

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appearance. we haven't seen him since thursday, his first appearance, laying a wreath at arlington national cemetery to honor american veterans on this veterans day. the president sticking to tradition at a remarkable moment, at a time he refuses to acknowledge election results and move to smooth transition. president-elect joe biden attending a veterans event of his own, korean war memorial in philadelphia, also issuing a statement telling veterans he'll be a commander-in-chief that respects their service and sacrifice. president trump and his team remain defiant on the election even though the vote counts backed up by election officials, both parties tell us there's zero evidence of major fraud and that the president lost. joe biden is the president-elect. and ten weeks from today, he will inherit a nation. united states breaking records for daily cases and hospitalizations. 45 states with new