hello to viewers in the united states and around the world. i am john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. president joe biden filling his team. they say it is past time for trump and his enablers to accept the election's overwhelming math. >> he knows the territory so

he's going to be just fine in the transition. he's going to be just fine in the transition. it is most unfortunate that the republicans have decided that they will not respect the will of the people. and let me just say, it is like the house is burning down and they just refuse to throw water on it. >> now so far there's zero indication the president is listening. he is again this morning tweeting, retweeting fantasies about overturning election results. a source familiar with the president's thinking tells cnn don't expect the president to publicly acknowledge that he lost, at least until georgia finishes the newly ordered recount. at the moment, the president is losing georgia by more than 14,000 votes. math and context should matter, right? even if the president should somehow come back, it wouldn't be enough. biden would still be the president-elect, period. there are a few more republicans today saying the president should green light transition cooperation, even if he wants to

keep challenging the results. the veteran republican senator chuck grassley of iowa saying president-elect biden should be getting security briefings, including detailed intelligence briefings, something being denied by president trump. most gop leaders won't stand up to the president because they fear him. team biden says it will keep focus on the work ahead, not on the incumbent's denial. the president-elect tapping ron klain, long time aide with deep west wing experience to be his white house chief of staff. we are accustomed to the president's tan tratrums. basic cooperation could be a matter of life and death. more than 144,000 new coronavirus cases yesterday. that breaks the record for most cases in one day. that record set tuesday. another record high number of hospitalizations and highest daily death count since may. we'll look deeply and discuss the coronavirus numbers in a moment. these are the numbers the president refuses to

acknowledge. look across the country, joe biden is winning in 25 states. even if arizona goes the other way, most think that's unlikely, he narrowed the gap. he would still have enough electoral votes. joe biden's lead has grown since we called the race friday, 53,898 votes. overturning that most unlikely to happen, even republicans say so. the president for some reason keeps saying there was massive fraud in michigan. he is losing there by nearly 150,000 votes. yes, he is suing. find any lawyer with election law experience that thinks you're going to overturn a lead of nearly 150,000 votes. we can look at them here, bring up the leads. these are joe biden's margins in key states now. we are more than a week after the election. yes, some votes are still being counted. 14,000 plus in georgia, 11,000 plus in arizona, 36,000 plus in nevada, 53,000 plus in pennsylvania. the math is simply overwhelming.

overwhelming. former white house chief of staff, chief of staff that took over after the 2000 contested election, the supreme court made george w. bush president of the united states, his chief of staff in those days said president trump, just deal with the math. >> the administration should move forward with the transition, even if the results of the election aren't really well known or well respected, move forward. we want a president biden to be just as prepared as a president trump to be in office on january 20th at noon time. >> chuck grassly earlier today, now john thune, just saying he believes telling cnn joe biden should have access to the classified briefings. should be getting the preparation, assuming he becomes president january 20th. are we starting to see enough

cracks to get the president's attention? >> it appears that way. it is a shame this is headline news that republicans are saying the president-elect should actually get security briefings. it is a matter of national security and the safety of average americans, whether or not president-elect biden is read in on what is going on and the threats that the country possibly will face. you do see movement. those two senators, langford, stepping forward saying this isn't happening by friday, he would try to step in. we'll see if this gets through to the president, he clearly is on his own timetable, he has his own goals in terms of maintaining a hold on his base who obviously believe he was cheated out of this election. there's obviously no proof of that. i think joe biden's calmness in approaching this and moving along, naming people to his transition team and also saying listen, this is not a matter of

lawsuits. he i think turned down the heat and that kind of gave republicans room to move forward. >> this is the administration that brought us the term alternative facts. we shouldn't be surprised by them trying to use alterative reality. you write this, mike pence went up to capitol hill to join the senate republican luncheon. pence said he found it odd a pro-gop electoral trend from legislative rais legislative races would stop at the top of the ticket. republicans came away with the impression pence was making the case why the campaign was continuing to legally dispute results, although the vice president did not explicitly make that link speaking with senators. he found it odd it stopped at the top of the ticket. has he not paid any attention to the president's approval rating, poll numbers the last four years? >> and that was kind of the oddity of what my sources were telling me about the lunch.

huh, maybe there is something particular about that top of the ticket wasn't as appealing to a majority of voters. but yes, the president is continuing to conduct these results. the hand recount we're seeing in georgia, we will see commence over the next several days, is not good news for the people. obviously all democrats on capitol hill and many republicans that want to move on with the business of governing and with the business of transition. that recount in georgia appears very difficult for the president to be able to overcome that 14,000 vote deficit. nevertheless, gives the president something to hang on. as long as president trump hangs on publicly to his unproven claims of voter fraud in key states, most of the republican party is going to go along with him, even if some say look, biden should get some classified briefings for national security purposes, they need to keep that

base excited, tapped in, energized, particularly as the republican senate majority hinges on the january 5th runoffs. as long as that's going on, they're going to stand by the president. >> and to that point, knee a ma leak a henderson, republicans, including the republican governors called for firing of the secretary of state because he is counting votes. he is a republican and counting votes. low and behold, joe biden is ahead, they don't think it is possible. how can a democrat with winning. in georgia you have to win over 50%, then you're not in a runoff. telling them this is your fault, don't blame me. >> maybe they should have been more competitive, ran better races in those states. they obviously didn't, they will face a runoff. it will be very competitive there in terms of money pouring in and attention pouring in as well to that state whether or

not the democrat can pull it out, that state demographically still favors a republican, even though joe biden was able to win. it is sort of an off year, election calendar, january 5th. whether or not democrats can real rally the right demographics and frankly white people to vote for a democratic candidate because we haven't really seen that in statewide races. stacey abrams got something like 25% of the white vote, even though the electorate was 30% black. it is difficult to put together a winning combination. joe biden has had something of a play book that won for the democrat, we'll see in terms of recount, but this will be one to watch because all of the marbles are on the table for senate control with this race. >> all the marbles, that's an understatement, too. and this is another example of the upside down world we lived in since beginning of the trump age, still spending time talking about the incumbent president

when we wshould be talking abou the new chief of staff, and putting together their team. among the team that they have is the new coronavirus task force, they call it advisory board, dr. michael o micha michael. >> we can pay for a package now to cover all of the wages, lost wages for individual workers, for losses to small companies to medium size companies, cities, states, county governments, we can do all of that. if we did that, we could lockdown four to six weeks. if we did that, we could drive the numbers down. >> we could lockdown four to six weeks. joe biden repeatedly, explicitly said during the campaign he was not for national lockdown, didn't think one was necessary.

is he out over his skis or is this something on the table as the transition tries to put together a plan? >> waiting to hear from the biden camp what they thought of the doctor's responses, whether that was in line with what the task force is advising president-elect biden here. you're right. joe biden during the campaign even actually in his last debate with president trump said i am going to shut down the virus, i am not going to shutdown the country. obviously joe biden said he will listen to scientists and the experts on handling the coronavirus, but this became an attack line on the part of president trump against biden during the campaign that he would just lockdown the country again, the economy would go in a tail spin. joe biden made it clear he would focus on very limited temporary targeted restrictions, if any sort of closures were necessary. it would be interesting to see what the biden camp's response to the comments are later today,

if that is indeed the path they're pursuing because it is different from what joe biden said during the campaign. >> transitions get interesting. members of task forces and transitions speak out, then comes the wait, whoa, wait a minute. it is incredibly important if you look at the numbers, the country is facing a crisis, the question is what is the plan. you want all options on the table. important thing is what does the president-elect think. to that point, the new chief of staff will have a big part of that. he has known ron klain for decades. he has deep experience in clinton, gore administration, i thought it was interesting, elizabeth warren, alexandria ocasio-cortez calling this a ruckus coming, progressives are going to fight over policy and personnel. but the biden team clearly did a good one out there so there wasn't backlash.

>> i think that's right. we have seen signs of the ruckus already breaking out on twitter and on pages of "new york times." a lot of back and forth between moderate house members in the aoc wing of the party. nancy pelosi speaking to it, saying listen, there are bigger fish to fry, meaning what the republicans are doing or aren't doing in terms of covid and any number of issues. i think biden so far played it smart. this was a good choice according to progressives. aoc coming out saying this was a good choice, elizabeth warren as well. some of those people, elizabeth warren, may want a role in the administration at some point. that's unclear. there's a republican governor in massachusetts so you would have to see about that, but so far folks are playing nice with the incoming administration, progressives with the incoming administration that is likely to be more moderate, forced to be more moderate because of the senate, whether or not the

republicans control it or not, it is certainly going to be at least 50/50, even if the democrats win the two senate seats in georgia. >> first of many important pieces the president-elect needs to put on the board. we shall watch. grateful for the reporting. up next, coronavirus cases are surging and guess what, two weeks from today it is thanksgiving. for this season. when being a fan on a budget gets tough... ...our agents do the legwork,... ...so saving on auto insurance is...

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that's deep red. orange is 10 to 50%. more new infections this week than last week. five states are holding steady. only one state staying down, the state death trend, this is more deaths. 30 of 50 states reporting more covid related deaths this week compared to last week. 30. you see deep red. it is not a surprise, across the northern part of the country where it is colder and cases are up. more than 50% deaths compared to last week. a record yesterday 143,231. previous record was 24 hours before that on tuesday. that's the world we live in now, almost every day we set a new record as new infections trend line is pointing straight to the sky. with that comes hospitalizations, not straight up but heading straight up. record number 63,368 hospitalized yesterday from

coronavirus. back in the spring, it was novel. hospitals were overwhelmed, this was new, didn't know how to deal with it. better job by summer surge. more cases, now we have way more cases, hospitalizations starting to go up. we will watch the trajectory. this is why. deep darkness on this map is not good. there's more of it every day. this is the positivity rate. 27% of people in missouri that get a covid test coming back positive. 55% in south dakota. more than half the people tested come back positive. guess what, then you infect other people and it gets worse. 40% in wyoming, 40% in idaho. 10% in ohio, double digits, better than other states. the republican governor there who tried to stay on top of this from the beginning says we have a mask mandate, but as our positivity rate goes up and cases go up all around us, we need to do more. >> statewide mask order since july, but we're going to send agents out now to start

enforcing that in retail establishments, but where we're seeing huge spread is just people in their own personal lives. we're seeing huge spreads from funerals, weddings, just people getting together to watch football. >> let's discuss this with associate professor of epidemiology john hopkins school of health. carrie, good to see you, except the times are terrible. you hear governor dewine, it is gatherings, weddings, football games. thanksgiving is in two weeks. what message do the american people need to hear about thanksgiving? >> i think they need to be ready to celebrate thanksgiving in their households and if you plan to celebrate in a different way, perhaps inviting another household in, there are lots of different plans you should be thinking through right now. plan a, b, and c. as noted, things are changing rapidly. we need to be able to respond. >> help me.

my wheel house is politics. i see a lot of public opinion polling with political races. from a public health perspective, how do you get people to think again when they have coronavirus fatigue. this is from gallup. are you likely, somewhat likely, not so likely to shelter in place if the government says to shelter in place. you see in march, late march, early april period when we were going through the initial surge, people were listening. now you see as we get closer to october, november, fewer people are listening. i assume because they're exhausted, tired of the restrictions, because they want normalcy. how do you change minds, get people to say you have to do this yourself or be told to do it? >> well, i mean, i think that's the key. i believe in that poll americans felt more confident that they do know how to protect themselves and their families, that they are thinking about mask mandates, social distancing. they are thinking about being sure to wash their hands and

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trump campaign moving forward with lawsuits claiming president-elect joe biden and democrats cheated to win. important to note, there's been absolutely no credible evidence of massive election fraud anywhere, but the president focusing these legal fights on key battleground states and the time line coming ahead is important. states will be certifying vote counts in coming weeks. you see the important dates there. electoral college formally meets

december 14th to select the president. joining us, kara skinel. some look at the lawsuits, say they can't find evidence. one theory is the president is trying to stir up chaos until the electoral college date. >> that's right. the trump campaign filed a number of lawsuits in multiple states in the past few days, none of them include allegations of widespread or systemic voter fraud. they have one common goal and that is to block certification of ballots. couple of lawsuits were filed in pennsylvania, there they're trying to block certification. that has to do, allegations there have to do with poll watchers, whether they had the ability to observe. they're looking at the handling of absentee ballots. michigan, the same thing, trying to block the certification, issue there, trump campaign wanting doover of absentee vote count. and in arizona, asking to block certification so they review all votes in maricopa county. there's a hearing under way now

in that case. john, the goal is they hope a judge will block certification. if that happened under one scenario, that would allow republican legislators to put forward their own slate of electors that could vote for president trump against the will of the people that voted in those states predominantly for joe biden. that is the goal here. one republican lawyer described to me this scenario as a doomsday scenario. given joe biden's lead in all of these states and in the electoral college, it would be -- it is such a big leap for the president here. he would have to have legal victories in multiple states in order for this strategy to make a difference and to use a non -- to use a legal term, it is like a hail mary of hail mary passes. >> math is math. i get politics, but math is math. it appreciate the important insights. we will keep track of these

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some brand new cnn reporting from the white house team. sources telling cnn president trump is, quote, waffling over whether to keep fighting election results. let's get straight to white house correspondent kaitlan collins. waffling in what way? >> reporter: basically the question is what does the president do and how long does he run the clock out here because advisers have been pretty blunt with the president that politically and legally

with the vote count, this isn't likely to break his way. they explained to the president while also being in the situation, john, where they're telling the president what he wants to hear, pushing these claims about fraud, even though they don't have evidence to back them up. that's what they've still been discussing in near daily meetings. president is having with political advisers and his legal team, people dialing in like the republican party chair ron a mcdaniel as well. what our sources are saying, the president knows he not going to win this election. he is not going to be successful in legal efforts. but the question is how long does he drag this fight out and does it go for a month from now until they start certifying race results or does the president get the idea the news cycle is not breaking his way either, does he start to change course. that is the question. the other is how does he end this. basically no one around the president believes he is going to come out and say you're right, joe biden won the election and here we go, moving on. they instead believe the

president will continue to insist that this election is filled with fraud, tease a 2024 run without fully committing to it, that puts mike pence and nikki haley and others in positions, they telegraphed they plan to run in 2024. that's the question now. how long is the president going to drag this out. if you talk to people around him, john, even they do not know at this point. >> and quickly, someone else around the president a lot in recent days and around the white house and the election, former campaign manager cory lewandowski now among those testing positive? >> reporter: yes, he tested positive and is self isolating at home, comes on the heels of the deputy campaign manager in 2016, but now supposed to be overseeing legal efforts, also testing positive. and that follows a number of other people who are at the election night party a little over a week ago at the white house that all tested positive

for coronavirus. it has been over a week. now cory lewandowski, it is not clear if he got it from the party, given that david bossy and mark meadows at the campaign headquarters tested positive, hud secretary ben carson is also positive. it goes to show you we are on the third outbreak this white house has had that we found out and were able to report on. they continue to do things like hold indoor parties where they insisted to reporters it would be fine, they were testing everyone beforehand. we have seen how that does not protect people that attend the parties. there's little mask wearing, john. >> short sighted might be too polite. live at the white house, kaitlan collins. like him or not, president trump is transparent about what his advisers are telling him about his shortcomings. >> they talk about suburban

women. somebody said i don't know if the suburban woman likes you. i'm about law and order, i'm about having you safe, about having your suburban communities, i don't want to build low income housing next to your house. suburban women, will you please like me? please. please. i saved your damn neighborhood, okay? >> we now know from these results those appeals failed. support from suburban women helped power joe biden's big election win. new research from a gop polling firm outlines it in stark detail. he says the president's problems may carry over to them, too. nicole mcclesky, thank you for your time. i want to pull up this line. among suburban women in election night poll, 56% for joe biden, 40% for donald trump. a 16 point gap.

another graphic to show viewers that puts it in context. you look at the right hand of the screen, you see joe biden's 16 point gap. hillary clinton won suburban women, barack obama won them twice. look how much more narrow the gaps were. what happened, nicole? >> it is really interesting. yes, the president did worse with suburban women this election cycle but that's offset by suburban men. his gap, the gap there was equally as large with the president winning suburban men. i think in the case of suburban women, they were wrestling with difficult issues this election cycle, the virus and economy were playing on their minds for sure this election cycle and they really wrestled with the issues and candidates in this election cycle. in this case, they gave joe biden a wide margin, suburban women did. and the advantage went to him on the virus. but when women were voting on

the economy, advantage went to president trump. so it is a very interesting election to watch suburban women. >> it is. just to follow-up, one of the key states, the state that put the president over the top is pennsylvania, to win pennsylvania as you know well, winning in philadelphia in the suburban collar or around it is critical for democrats. kate bolduan did interesting reporting on this. >> do you regret your vote? >> where we are today, yes, i do. i don't think this is the great again that everyone thought it would be. >> i felt like i did a disservice for women by voting for this guy. >> is there a moment in the last four years when you said i can't do this again? >> the covid pandemic, the way he handled it, that was the absolute last straw for me. >> so there, nicole, you had two suburban women that voted for trump in 2016 that changed their

mind this time. you heard covid mentioned there. i watched focus groups done by polsters, the tweets, constant chaos, insulting people. what is most, women that were driven from the president, what was the most important factor? >> the virus was a big deal. joe biden won virus suburban women by a large margin. what was interesting to me was the economy edged out the virus among suburban women in terms of issues they considered important in this election and trump won those women by an equally large margin in the survey. so at the end of the day, women looked at their personal financial situation and said you know, the president may be for some of his faults and some things i don't like that he does, he is maintained a good economy. my personal financial situation is a little bit better. those two issues they did wrestle with. i think it helps explain why

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we heard quite a bit from former president barack obama at the end of the campaign. less than a week, first volume of his latest memoir hit store shelves. jeff zeleny has a sneak peek for us, jeff? >> reporter: john, there's an extraordinary look into the eight years that president obama served in office. one thing that is striking is given the moment we're in is the transition to power. think back to january 20th, 2009, when then president-elect barack obama was riding in the limousine, the beast, first time ever in the beast with president george w. bush. a time-honored tradition of going from the white house to the capitol together. who knows if that will happen this year, given the situation, perhaps not. take a listen, a look at how president obama described that day as they went along pennsylvania avenue and saw signs saying indict the criminal, war criminal.

he writes this, to protest in the more generally i was troubled by what these last minute protests said about the divisions that were churning around the country. he goes on to talk about the transition of power. he says this, whether because of respect for the institution, lessons from his father, bad memories of his own transition, or basic decency, president bush would end up doing all he could to make the 11 weeks between my election and his departure go smoothly. i promised myself when the time came, i would treat my successor the same way. extraordinary look into the president. once you're running for office, you're partisan. once in office and after, you're member of a club, a very exclusive club, that is the lens in which former president barack obama is viewing that transition. and joe biden of course is not getting anything like that at all from president donald trump. >> not at all. and of course, barack obama made

history as the first black president. i understand in the new memoir, there are striking comments about race. >> reporter: john, there absolutely are. this is something the former president said privately, but never talked as directly or publicly or bluntly about the reaction to his presidency that has brought about the last eight years or so in politics. take a listen to what he says about this. he said it was as if my very presence in the white house had triggered a deep seeded panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted which is exactly what donald trump understood when he started pedaling assertions i had not been born in the united states and was thus an illegitimate president. for millions of americans spooked by a black man in the white house, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety. john, some weighty, powerful words. the former president watched automaker of this transpire, certainly when he was in office and since then. the book is filled with many

interesting details. it is that moment when he went to the white house briefing room in 2011 and presented his birth certificate. one detail struck me, john. he said he looked at the young press aides as he walked into the briefing room and said remember, we are better than this. we are better than this. the book is chalk full of details. president trump only comes up in the end in interesting ways. this is the first volume of what he says will be two volumes. he is a writer, has 780 pages under his belt. the book is out next week. >> stirring memories, sir, on that day the president released his birth certificate, i interviewed one donald j. trump a long time ago. jeff, fascinating insights on an important book. appreciate the hustle. arise in thanksgiving travel, even as coronavirus cases skyrocket. we did it.

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the president of ukraine is hospitalized with covid-19 as his country registers increase in infections. president zelensky saying he contracted covid-19. there's a surge across europe. ben wedeman has this update from italy. >> reporter: i am ben wedeman in rome. italy has recorded more than 1 million cases of coronavirus since the outbreak of the pandemic earlier this year. more than 600,000 of those cases are currently active.

the second wave of the pandemic shows no sign of slowing down, despite ever stricter measures to try to stop the spread. an overnight nationwide curfew is already in place. five regions are under lockdown in other regions of italy, perhaps the country may soon follow suit. italian hospitals are finding it ever more difficult to handle the flood of new patients. some hospitals are running out of beds and staff to treat the sick. wednesday, the daily death toll from coronavirus, 623, was the highest daily death toll in more than seven months. officials here warn that as bad as things are now, the worst is yet to come. >> ben wedeman in rome. despite all of the advice to the contrary, a lot of people planning to travel over the thanksgiving holiday coming up. some airlines are adding flights

to meet increased holiday demand. taz shows travelers are inching to setting a record during the pandemic. pete, they're expecting more traffic? >> reporter: yeah, and you know, we're in the middle of a serious surge, john. more travel restrictions popping up each and every day. what's interesting, airlines think they're about to be the busiest they have been since march and already laying ground work. american airlines is about to ratchet up the schedule 15% during week of thanksgiving. 3500 flights a day now, going to fly 4,000 during the week of thanksgiving. united added 1400 flights to the schedule, roughly 10% increase. but this is a bit of a gamble for struggling airlines. passengers are waiting until the last minute to book tickets. >> it is getting better but bookings are way down. a lot of people are making last

minute decisions to fly. for thanksgiving, we recommend you make the decision ahead of time, it will be a really good travel experience, more people will be traveling in thanksgiving than have been. as you know, there are a lot less planes in the air than there used to be. >> reporter: airlines are insisting up and down that flying right now is safe. new research shows the chance of getting coronavirus on board an airplane is low, even the cdc cautions you have to take care during every part of the trip. consider that door to door possibility. there's not much research, researchers point out, spread of the virus in airports, jet ways, security lines. million people pass through security back on october 18th, that's when they set a record for the pandemic. another we almost saw this past sunday. we will see if undaunted passengers set a new record of the pandemic.

>> pete, thank you for the report. that airport is normally busy. thanks for joining us, spending time with us. busy news day. pamela brown picks up coverage now. have a good day. well, good afternoon. i am pamela brown in for my colleague brianna keilar. i want to welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. let's first talk about what's happening in this country right now. america is shattering coronavirus records. get this. yesterday more than 1600 deaths with coronavirus, each day worse than the last. more than 144,000 new cases were reported yesterday, the highest number we have seen yet. and over 65,000 americans are hospitalized now, again, that is a record. in the midst of the crisis, where is the president? he hasn't spoken publicly about this. the american people have