analyst. fact is, i'm not an expert. i'm not a doctor, epidemiologist, virologist or scientist. well, the news continues. i want to hand it over to chris. >> thank you very much, anderson. i am chris cuomo and welcome to "prime time." happy veterans' day to the men and women who serve now and who did serve, the husbands and wives. the brothers and sisters wondering when those who risk it all for us to have it all will be home. thank you to each and all of you. we appreciate, certainly i appreciate your service. may we take this message of this day, the ideal of putting nation before self, even committing the ultimate sacrifice.

i'm looking at you, gop. both sides laid down arms in world war i. the date was to mark the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 when it ended. well, it is the 11th hour now after this election. and these gop cronies know it is over. shame on you for allowing crazy to become contagious as covid in your ranks. why do you think trump is yourselfing pentagon leadership and loading up with loyalists? maybe it's for troop withdrawal. maybe it's to get russian information released. and maybe it is because he is twisted enough to try to do something way worse. remember who said nothing. remember their shame. president-elect biden is doing what he can. he's meeting, planning to take on the pandemic.

you know, the one where all the numbers are now in crazy scary territory and trump hasn't even mentioned it. does it sound like someone his party should placate? not only is this administration denying security briefings, but they're blocking biden from receiving a stack of messages from foreign leaders. again, this goes way beyond trump. trump is toxic, surprise. however, the real surprise is the blame that must be put on those who ignore and, therefore, empower. and those who say, this should just run its course. running its course means transition, and they know it. i'm telling you. remember the people who are enabling this fraud. they must answer for defending trump's delusions. they are remaining silent when

it matters most. most republicans in washington, did you know, they won't even say president-elect biden in public. you know who else is doing that? vladimir putin, president xi and kim jong-un. great company. the best they can be apparently is senator langford from oklahoma. he does say, though, he should get the daily security brief. can you believe that's the best in their ranks? even karl rove penned an op ed saying this is over. do you know how toxically partisan you have to be for him to be more fair than you? the shame is that this is a game for them. they have no proof. you have heard them list no proof. over an state tv, they have a list of potential bad votes.

nothing that comes close to changing the results, and they know it. and we know they know. how? because they held the exact opposite position when they won an election. cnn's k file found the ugly truth. feast on this. >> you have people out there calling for recounts that are unsubstantiating based on no evidence. this was a legitimate election and no one should question the fact that president trump is the president-elect. >> they can't seem to realize it is time to move on. it is time to accept the fact that trump will be the next president of the united states. >> hillary clinton is on her sore loser tour, and now we have her going through recounts. you know what she needs to do? she needs to get over it. she lost. get out of the way and let donald trump be president. >> do you think the democrats are sore losers? >> yeah, i do. >> they're a bunch of spoiled

cry babies. >> news flash for those who continue to try to delegit miez. you have to win 270 electoral votes to be elected president and president-elect trump actually got 306. this is all really an effort to delegitimize the win. >> they're going nuts. >> they can't accept the election results, let alone the fact he's going to solve problems. >> they're going to interfere with a peaceful transition of power or if they're going to be a bunch of cry babies and sore losers about an election they can't turn around. >> this is america. we live in a democracy. everybody when they woke in the morning that's registered to vote could go choose. how about respecting the majority that also live here and their vote should count. >> okay? shame on them. a wax museum is less

cold-blooded than these people are. and let them know they are going to lose way more than this election. this matters. what they're playing at now matters. this isn't tax, don't tax. this isn't who lies, who doesn't lie. this is what lies at the heart of our democracy, and they know it. hillary clinton, say what you want, she promptly conceded even though she spanked them in the popular vote. why? that's what our system demands. other democrats swiftly came to terms with trump's victory. proof. >> we must accept this result and then look to the future. donald trump is going to be our president. we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. >> so i have instructed my team to follow the example that president bush's team set eight years ago and work as hard as we can to make sure this is a

successful transition for the president-elect. >> i want to offer my congratulations to president-elect trump and wish him well for the american people. >> we of course are all very disappointed, more than disappointed. hard to accept the results, but accept we do. peaceful transfer of power is what america and our democracy is about. >> 77 million plus and counting delivered a spanking to trump by voting for joe biden. we have never seen a number like it. what about the 70 million who voted for trump? what about them? what about respecting their role in the democracy by honoring the democracy yourself? they came out and voted. they played the game the right way. and, again, let's put up some of the vote boards in the key races to show how this is not a squeaker. this is not about finding a few

ballots or even a few hundred. and that's all recounts generally change. wisconsin, biden is up more than 20,000. pennsylvania, he's up more than 50,000. in georgia, he's up more than 14,000. the state announced today it will be holding a full recount. and that should deliver confidence in the outcome. nobody is saying no recounts where they meet the standard. nobody is staying don't certify. we're saying don't lie about having proof when it doesn't exist because that is enabling a fraud and you know it. in nevada biden leads now by more than 36,000. in michigan, you know, clinton lost to trump there by under 11,000. she didn't fight it. trump is down by 146,000. now, just as gross, you know where trump didn't want to stop the count? alaska. why? cnn just called the race for him

today. they have been counting absentee mail-in votes for over a week. why is that okay? because he won. again, this is not about trump. as i said, he is a rdead man walking because he's not vital enough to deal with the crisis overwhelming this country. he doesn't talk about the numbers, only himself. that's who he is. it is what it is. and it's ugly, and it's always been. he's always lied when he sees a loss. proof? okay. romney lost to obama in 2012. trump total sham. 2016, primary season ted cruz beats him in the iowa caucus. what does he say? he didn't win. he stole it. 2016, he loses, right? what does he say? rigged! even after he won, he ordered a commission. why? i only lost the popular vote

because two million, four million, six million because the numbers were all the same to him, right, just like his net worth. he puts together this commission headed by his boy. you know what they find? nothing. they had to remove the commission. do you know how rare that is? he cried fraud all through the 2018 midterms claiming people were voting illegally multiple times by changing clothes. proof? crickets. let's not forget one thing. trump was impeached. and remember why. shaking down a foreign power to help him fix this election and take down biden. he is a liar and a cheat. but he always has been. he is not the real problem. he can't do this alone. it is the cronies inside and the craven in congress. that's why this continues and continues to hamper our fight against covid. again, trump hasn't even told you about the latest numbers, and he is doing nothing. and they are stalling the rightful transfer of power to a

group that will do something. and remember, none has provided you any proof to justify this malignant malfeasance. they must all be held to account for what they are enabling right now. never forget. so what is the state of play with this? what is biden able to do? how bad for how long? dana bash, david gregory join us now. thank you for your patience. what is the latest word in terms of how long the gop will propitp up? >> there is no time. there is no date. there is no specific marker that they're looking for. it's kind of they will know it when they see it, which is certainly not -- >> like porn? >> kind of. that supreme court case. kind of like that, yes. it's a different kind, yeah. i know exactly what you are saying. so they are different a couple

different things. they are allowing these court cases, which even people close to the president call frivolous. they're allowing them in order to try to show the president this is a dead end path, the courts. another date that we're looking at is december 8th when by law all of the states have to have certified their electoral -- their electors and certified the election. and, so, those are two things that we're looking at. but who knows? i mean, as you just described and as we know because we have been covering donald trump as a politician for five years, we know to expect the unexpected. and why these remembers who are just saying let it run its course think there will be an epiphany at some point is unclear. >> why doesn't proof factor into

it, david? ordinarily, this would make sense. 2000, that was an ugly period. went to the courts, the supreme court, we all know the story. yet, they argue vehemently that it has to run its course based on what theory? >> that they're afraid of the president. in a lot of these cases, you see a member of president's party separate from him when he becomes less popular. that's when they get the backbone to separate because they feel like they've got the political reason to do it. here they don't sense that. you know, the writing is more than on the wall. the evidence is clear. the vote totals are too big. the victory is too big for biden. none of it is going to work. and yet i think rank and file republicans know and certainly republican leaders in washington

know that trump is going to have some area of power, whether he threatens to run again or just launches a television network, a news network or just keeps tweeting, he will keep dogging these republicans. and they don't feel like he's significantly diminished yet for them to, you know, walk down pennsylvania avenue and say it's over. it's just not the case yet. nobody -- we haven't seen it for four years. nobody is willing to get out in front of him. that's a very small handful. >> dana, go ahead, but please wrap this in here as well. what do they make of what he's doing at the pentagon? >> that's the question i have been trying to get the answer to all day. for the most part, one of the answers that i get is, you know, this is just the president disliking esper who was the defense secretary, and that also goes with the people who -- the political appointees, the civilian leadership that were

under him. you know, the question obviously because the place he decided to make moves was at the pentagon is is there something dangerous going on because it's the pentagon. the answer that i've gotten so far is no, but it's not a -- it's not a sure no. it is a no, i don't think so. so people are watching. but just to amplify was david was just saying, i talked to a source in the trump orbit today who said what the president is saying internally is that he believes he holds all the cards. 72 million americans voted for him. two georgia seats are still going to be contested in a run off on january 5th. that determines whether or not mitch mcconnell is the senator majority leader. that is one of the big reasons why the senate republicans in particular feel they're so intimidated. because if they make him bad and they piss him off, they're

worried he won't go and campaign for the republicans and they could lose the majority because he will feel that there is no feelty to him. >> strong point. it makes sense, and that's what i've heard as well. but what an ugly calculation. david, the idea of what this means for biden. he announced ron clan as his chief of staff today. he was the ebola czar. some names are bubbling up, but not getting any messages from foreign leaders. are there other avenues for that? not getting the security briefing. are there other avenues for that? >> i think for the time being, he's fine. this is the former vice president who was just there four years ago. ron clan has been in government for a long time. he's one of the wise men of democratic politics. not only is he a fantastic guy for one thing, but a loyalist to

biden. but because of that particular experience with ebola, he's going to mobilize very quickly for the administration to respond to covid. and just as the financial crisis was what obama faced coming into office here, this is the number one crisis that biden faces. and that to me is the biggest cost of this particular period, is that you just have inaction. you said it at the top. the president is not talking about this horrible spike in cases and the crisis that is redeveloping. you have a government in waiting in transition that is doing this work but is being cutoff because right now there is no cooperation with the administration. imagine if they put their forces together what they might be able to accomplish. >> david, dana, you guys are like the super twins. this is really great. thank you so much. this is great. thank you for my audience. i appreciate it. >> thanks, chris. again, the marriage of this, okay, they have no proof to

delay the transition. they have offered you none. and they are sleeping on all this proof that covid is worse than we have seen it. i mean, it's not just hurting us at home. it is impacting us around the world. and that's got to count at some point. madeleine albright can give us the skinny on that. the former secretary of state is here. what does she make of what's happening here, about mike pompeo, one of her successors, the joke that he made that he said wasn't a joke. let's get perspective from someone who knows the stakes next. to customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? really? i didn't-- aah! ok. i'm on vibrate. aaah! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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or call 1-877-866-8555. we're all spending a lot of time like this now, right? like seriously? i thought it was over, right? just wondering, bizarre sense of wonder and growing anxiety on top of the anxiety.

new tonight, the state department is actively preventing the president-elect from seeing messages from foreign leaders. yet, those same leaders are going around the trump add mo y administration. from canada, turkey, saudi arabia, they're finding a way to congratulate biden on his victory. it's also telling who hasn't, putin, xi and kim. the only company they're able to keep right now is the host of gop congress members who are basically acting the same way. what does it mean short-term, long-term? former secretary of state and un ambassad ambassador, madeleine albright joins out. madam secretary, welcome to "prime time." congratulations to you. 72 years ago today you came to america. what a beautiful addition.

you are part of what the dream is all about. >> well, chris, it's great to be with you. and i am a grateful american for this country having given my family a place to be when communists had taken over and before that we had spent the war in london. i was 11 years old, and i was very grateful. i'm wearing the statue of liberty because recently the statue of liberty was weeping and now she is smiling again. the way it looked when we arrived on the "ss america" in new york. >> why is she smiling when we have a nontransition, changes at the pentagon, a disregarding of an election and an entire political party standing by and saying nothing? >> because she's patient. and i do think that this

particular moment, which is truly ridiculous and i heard what you were talking about before and very troubling. but i think that our patience is going to be very helpful. and we have a great future with president-elect biden and vice president-elect kamala harris. and i think that it's going to make a difference. and i'm looking forward to it because some of the absolutely ridiculous things that are going on now will be put behind us and our allies and friends will regain trust in this country, which was lost in the last four years. >> again, not to put a pin in the bubble of this commemorative day of you being here and of the sanguine outlook which ordinarily would be appreciated, but where does your confidence come from with trump saying i'm going to win and all of these senators and members of congress

with no proof, madeleine, not a single piece other than, you know, the customary things you see about perhaps bad ballots. we see these things in elections. but nothing of the standard they would need to overturn an election. and yet they're all saying let it go. >> well, i have say i'm totally appalled obviously by the behavior of trump but also by members of his party who are not objecting to the kinds of things that are going on. elected officials who should not be terrified of any payback that would come from trump. but i really am surprised. i believe in bipartisan ship. i want to see them doing something and being really honorable in terms of their own constituencies and so i am deeply troubled. by the way, i'm often asked if i'm an optimist or a pessimist. i'm an optimist who does worry a

lot. so i am worried. but i prefer to be able to look at this as a way where we will sort our way out of it because we have very, very good people who are ready to come in and run a government that has been chaotic and without purpose except for the glorification of a president that is only interested in his own legacy. so we have an awful lot to get over, and i'm looking forward to the time when the transition can really take place and we will have a government that is reflective of america's potential and greatness and our understanding of democracy. >> two more quick things. one, what is your sense of time until when the transition takes place? and how much time will you have before it starts to disrupt relations abroad? >> well, i do think you've gone through a number of dates that had to happen. i think we will go through that. but i think it's very important for us to really, i hope that

our friends and allies really are listening to those people that are talking about we'll get over this. our democracy is resilient. democracy knows how to correct itself. and i do think that it is important for them to understand that we will get through this, but it's not simple. there is just -- i'm not going to sugar coat it. i think there are very serious bad things going on in terms of the example that we set in the world. by the way, chris, we have been awol for the last four years. we have not been present at the meetings that are important. we have a president who only has his own agenda. so there is going to be an awful lot of work to restore america's reputation and to make us very active partners in a world that needs to have america as a reasonable, rational partner. >> any risk that people abroad

say, this biden, he doesn't even have support at home. i'm not dealing with him. >> i don't think that will happen. i really don't. first of all, they know biden. that is the incredible part. i have known him a very long time. he is somebody that has deep relations with countries all over the world, with the leaders. they know him. they also will know, i think, a lot of people that will be in the administration, and i do think that things can be restored because we have to get this done. and by the way, you were talking about transitions. i have been transitioned into and i have done the transitioning. the latter is more fun, but it is a very interesting period in turning over the crown jewels. so there has to be a process that is orderly and important. and by the way, from my understanding is the trump people didn't know how to use the transition going in. so that is the problem. and so it is not going to be an easy transition in terms of picking up the pieces and

knowing -- and the intelligence briefings have to begin. people need to begin to take their places. so i'm not going to, as i said, sugar coat this. there are many things to do, and the calendar, as you have described it, there are certain dates that have to happen. i do think that it is very important to try to show the patience and peace and patriotism and to really get through this very, very troubling period. >> mike pompeo is setting a low bar as secretary of state. not just with his bad call on what to say underminie ining th election. who would you like to see as secretary of state? >> any number of people. >> give me one, just one. >> mike pompeo is more dedicated to trump and the party than to democracy and the united states. >> agreed. give me one name. >> i'm not going to do that.

>> i knew it. and i always lose. secretary madeleine albright, thank you so much. 72 beautiful years in this country. you have been doing nothing but pay the country back for the opportunity it gave you and your family. always a pleasure to see you. thank you for perspective on the moment. >> terrific. >> i'll talk to you again soon. god bless and be well. >> thank you very much. look, what's the problem? the problem is this isn't just for fun. this isn't just political state of play. states all over the country are starting to run out of hospital capacity. remember, it's a lagging indicator. we started to see the cases spike. oh, but the hospitals are okay. yeah. that comes next. now we're there. we're breaking records of the wrong kind. so let's get together and figure out not just what you have to do but where the bad things are

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now, if you want proof that the wrong side is winning in a big contest, look at the war against covid. we're seeing more new cases than ever. more than 140,000 people were infected just today. that's another single day high. not just a blip. the ninth consecutive day we have seen more than 100,000 new cases. you know, the more cases you get, you will add more than a million new cases each week, what do you think happens to the system, communities, families? why is this happening? well, that partly is answered by looking at where it's happening.

the worst of it right now is in the midwest. but every region of the country is facing a surge to differing degrees and varying reasons. texas became the first state to pass one million covid cases. a dozen other states recorded their highest single day of new cases this week. what do you see there? relaxing the standards. a sense that you're passed it. now testing. testing has increased. but the proportion of tests that come back positive is what matters. and that rate of positivity is increasing in most states. look at the color key. take a second. look at it. trump lied when he said testing was the problem. you go, you test more, you make more cases. no. the positivity rate is what matters. the darkest states have positivity rates as high as 55%. it is all shades of blue. you want to be in that light, light, light blue like you see

in new hampshire and vermont. more americans are being hospitalized than ever before. now they're in the hospitals. it is a lagging indicator. 17 states reported record highs in hospitals on tuesday. what happens when they run out of capacity? for the second day, we topped our hospitalization record with more than 65,000 people in hospital beds. hospitals all over are at their breaking point. in north dakota, staffing shortages are so bad that the governor is allowing health care workers with active covid infections to continue working as long as they're asymptomatic. can you imagine all these months in? only means one thing. eventually you will see more deaths. an average of nearly 1,000 lost each day yesterday. we had more than 1,400. can we continue to let this virus win when we know of ways to stop it?

we can learn from our previous battles. but what? how? when? the chief doctor sanjay gupta joins us now. why do we look to where it is spreading for a more acute analyst of what that state, region or community needs to do differently? >> well, because, you know, we don't have a national strategy, right? so every place as a result is different, has sort of had different guidelines. we have to sort of look at what's happening there. south dakota, for example, you were referencing in one of those graphs. for a while there, we thought the waves would skip. they thought it was going to skip them. now as you point out, 55% positivity rates, which means that those far, far more cases there than are ever being accounted for. they're simply not catching them. north dakota over there, they

have 20 to 25 icu beds total for the state. so what happens, chris, in these situations when people start having some of the worst symptoms here in those places? it becomes a real challenge. it is true younger people now compared to before are more likely to get infected. i mean, 50% roughly now are under the age of 50. before hit was 75% were over th age of 50. by the way, 18 to 29-year-old now make up a quarter of infections. those are college students a lot of them. that's sort of what's happening across the country. >> mortality rate, that is the last for the denier. the death rate is going down so it doesn't really matter that we have these cases. >> the death rate, we have learned a lot about this virus. we know how to better care for patients who have the virus. there is certain therapeutics like remdesivir, steroids. we know that ventilators aren't

always a good patients for these patients. instead putting them in a prone position may be a lot better for people who are having difficulty breathing. as i mentioned, younger people are more likely to be getting infected now and they're less likely to get as sick. the problem is as you eluded to, the numbers are so high, while the proportion may have come down, the absolute numbers are so high, the expectation is we will be at 2,200 people dying every day starting near the end of january. we will hit nearly 300,000 cases per day by the end of this year. they think the hospitalizations will double by february. so it is a -- the numbers are all going in the wrong direction. even if the death rate has come down, it is still too high. >> do you buy the promise of a t-cell test? what is it? why would it be a good thing? and do you think it's something we should jump on in terms of mass production? >> i think someone like you might find this interesting,

chris because everyone talks about the antibodies which are the proteins you measure in the blood after someone has had the infection. we know those antibodies wane over time. but we haven't seen huge amounts of reinfection. seeing some, but not a lot. why? probably these t-cells which are the cells part of the immune system. they seem to be activated in response to this virus. so they may be a good measure of immunity. we don't know how much immunity they confer. they may end up being a better measure long term versus antibodies. >> sanjay gupta and your luxurious locks, thank you so much for being with us as always. >> i'm getting this cut now. definitely getting it cut. >> first of all, it's gorgeous. second of all, doesn't matter how bad the pandemic gets, i will always have a sense of humor because it is the best medicine there is. >> at my expense. >> everybody loves sanjay.

i'm just different by giving you some heat. nobody gives you heat. randomly who are going through long haul. one of them just found in a scan of her lungs that she doesn't have enough big blood vessels. she has a lot of small blood s vessels and it's robbing her of ox nated blood. therefore, she's short of breath. the other one, nine months in she just said good-bye to the support group online. she's just starting to resume activity. long haul is real, even if you have a mild case. we have to stay on how this goes. >> that's right. >> and we have to keep smiling and loving each other. sanjay, i love you and thank you. >> i love you, chris. take care. >> if we don't care enough about each other, we don't care about this happening. we don't care enough about each other. and how can you in this climate? every signal you are getting is to hate somebody.

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the latest radioactive righty thrust into power at the pentagon is retired army dug loss mcgregor. history of racist comments, big proponent of immediately pulling all of our forces out of afghanistan and he has parroted kremlin talking points on ukraine. not alone. new cases include a retired general too controversial for

even republicans to confirm and a who's who of trump's efforts to declassify anything that he seems to believe would exonerate him on russia. >> russia, russia, russia. it was russia, russia, russia. russia. it was russia. >> sadly, that's him at some of his most cogent. and think about it, nothing russia wanted in your heads about biden that he didn't put there twice as much. just so happens to be a topic andrew mccabe knows well. good to see you, brother. >> good to see you, chris. >> why is he doing this stuff at the pentagon? do you think it is about russia disclosure or something else? >> there is a couple of things that come to mind here. it is obviously not clear what the president is trying to accomplish. i think in the short run, the idea of putting officials into positions to green light the continued release of confidential and highly

classified intelligence to support his political grievances is concerning enough. but honestly, chris, from my perspective as a law enforcement official concerned with protecting the homeland in terms of my career in the fbi, i know that there is a there is a kell cat balance between military and their very, very limited involvement in law enforcement activity in the united states. that is a very high level request from the attorney general to the department of defense. i usually only happens during national security and times of defense. i'm concerned the president may be putting officials in positions to potentially green light or slick the skids for the involvement of our military in domestic and political law enforcement activities and that's something every american should be concerned about. >> first of all, like what? and second, are we getting ready it is on the military side and

not on the intelligence side where they have more immediate access to this type of declassification? >> well, i don't think there's any lack of pressure being put on the intelligence side at the same time. i think the reporting today in the "washington post" was highly concerning about a concerted effort among intelligence officials from the military to the cia to the attorney general himself, to democrats and republicans in the senate, all of whom are desperately trying to stop this president from declassifying highly, highly sensitive intelligence that was used in the intelligence community assessment in 2016 to detail the involvement of russian meddling in our election in 2016. so that is happening right now, according to reporting in the "washington post." what is happening in positions of leadership in the department of defense is another very

concerning undermining of the independence of our military and intelligence infrastructure. >> stepping on toes aside, what's the big deal if some sorts and methods get exposed? what is the risk? >> well, it is a very big deal to some of the sources who might be facing a very significant threat to their own lives. but i will tell you this. obviously limited in how detailed i can get talking about the work we did on the intelligence community assessment. that assessment was the result of a tasking from president obama to put everything we knew on the table about what the russians might have done in 2016. and that product, the highest most classified level, included information from sources of irreplaceable value to the united states government. unbelievably highly classified, sensitive sources. and to think that a president of

the united states would risk compromising those unique sources of intelligence in our government to solve some political grievance or to support his fair give russia. it is unthinkable. >> unthinkable? what have you been? in a fox hole for the last three or four days? really? unthinkable? he won't even turn over power. he has no proof. >> it should be unthinkable. why are we here? i can't even believe we're talking about this conversation. >> he is holding up the transfer of power in a democracy over sour grapes. come on, andrew. you know better than that. you've been in the media game long enough to see what's going on around here. not everything is all dotted and crossed. people just do things for bad reasons. let's hope this plays out in the favor of those sources so the work of intelligence can continue. i appreciate you. thank you. >> thank you. >> got to teach these guys

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19 million veterans in the u.s. why don't we serve them the way they've served us? thank you for your service. we say it, right? do we mean it? what do we do about it? do we fight for them and their care and their g.i. bill? not enough. we live our lives in respect the rights they secure. god, country, family. they live it. but where are we? look around you.

covid, chaos, and complete animus. do you know why i believe that is in large part is what we see going on in our politics. namely with our president. i absolutely want to connect this day with this president. these men and women sacrificed their lives and their well being and their families and their futures so that things here have a chance to be better. and that's not what he represents. and i'm not talking about him shirking his own military service. forget, he spent less than ten minutes at arlington national cemetery to honor our fallen heroes. that's not right. but the bigger problem is that he dishonors our sense of duty that we recognize on this day. denying the defeat in this election is denying our democracy. and accepting defeat from covid the way he has is inexcusable in a leader. his refusal to accept the

results of a free and fair election is exactly what these men and women do for us. they make us able to have this system. we should take it seriously. we should respect it. freedom, peace, integrity. those are values that we are allowed to have here. they are secure. but not with this president and not now. think about it. we honor the men and women who serve us. we should do it by having clear eyes and proud hearts about what we semiand reject in our leaders. thank you to those who served and their families. time for d lemon, cnn tonight. >> thank you. do you know how else we thank them? we respect them by honoring the ballots they mailed in from wherever they are stationed. we allow all the votes to be counted as well and we don't say stop the counting when it is not in our favor. do you disagree