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joe biden adds to his lead in the u.s. election. cnn predicts he will win arizona, the first time a democrat has done that in decades. president trump still refusing to accept defeat, but it looks like more and more republicans are. and coronavirus continues to rampage across the united states.

more than 150,000 people test positive in the last 24 hours. yet another new record. hello, and welcome to cnn newsroom, everyone. i'm michael holmes. >> welcome, everyone, joe biden's lock on the white house now more secure than ever with cnn projecting he will win arizona and its 11 electoral college votes. it is the fourth state that biden has flipped from republican red to democrat blue, and he becomes the first democrat to win the state since bill clinton, back in 1996. china now the latest foreign power to congratulate the president-elect. the statement from the foreign

ministry saying it respects the will or the choice of the american people. the question now is how much longer president trump will ignore the math and admit defeat. with a growing number of key republicans have begun signaling to him that it's over. the president's unfounded claims of a rigged election are increasingly falling on deaf ears and u.s. election officials, including trump appointees in the department of homeland security on thursday declared the 2020 election the most secure in american history. an extraordinary moment when the government must reaffirm the sanctity of the election as the president insists it was fraudulent. hospitals all over the country on the verge of being overwhelmed with covid patients. more than 1 million americans

have tested positive for covid-19 since the election just ten days ago. thursday seeing another record, more than 150,000 new cases in 24 hours. >> we will have the latest on the pandemic just ahead. but first, i want to take you to the trump white house. one person who spoke to the president told cnn he is dejected over his election loss. more now from kaitlan collins. >> yesterday was one week since we had seen the president actually speak directly to reporters. probably one of the first times in his presidency that he has gone that long without talking to the media. it came as on twitter he was continuing to contest the election. there is no evidence to back up the president's claims. what was remarkable that we saw yesterday was his rebuke from his own administration. the department of homeland

security over the president's claims. we saw the cyber security and infrastructure security agency put out a statement from a high ranking official saying this was the most secure election and that none of these votes were fraudulent in the way that the president has alleged. they actually said making clear there is no evidence that any voting system was compromised in any way. of course that comes after the president was re-tweeting articles from fringe web sites and fringe news channels alleging there was this fraud using this system that was used across the country. he just has no evidence to back up what the president is saying. how much longer is the president going to continue this? we have seen a crack in support among republicans on capitol hill who are coming out saying that joe biden does deserve to have those classified intelligence briefings that typically a president-elect would get immediately, but so far, the trump administration has blocked. the question really in the president's circle is not what end of this is going to look like. they know the president is not

going to be in office in yan. the question is how long does he continue to drag this out. right now, they believe it's still going to go on for at least a few more days. >> well, despite trump's obstruction, joe biden moving ahead with the transition as best he can for the first time since being declared president-elect, biden spoke with house speaker nancy pelosi and the move today leaving wilmington, delaware, for his beach house. on wednesday night, biden announced his first major hire, naming long time aide ron klain as his chief of staff. in a statement, biden described klain as invaluable, his deep varied experience to work with people across the political spectrum is precisely what i need in a white house staff. biden and klain share a long history, dating back to 1999

when klain served as chief counsel, including during the clarence thomas nomination hearings and served as ebola czar. >> trump administration response to the crisis has clearly failed. >> bitdden continues to mull hi selections for cabinet secretaries. senator bernie sanders is ramping up his campaign to become labor secretary, telling cnn he would say yes if offered the position. >> if i had a portfolio that allowed me to stand up and fight for working families, would i do it, yes, i would. >> president-elect biden says he hopes to name some cabinet members by thanksgiving with more decisions coming later in the year. meanwhile, biden today spoke with pope francis as he is set to become only the second catholic president in u.s. history. as for ore foreither foreign le

stack of congratulatory messages are sitting at the state department untouched as the trump administration continues to block the biden transition team from accessing those messages or using the department's resources. the biden transition team pushing back on comments from a board member who's on their covid-19 advisory board. this doctor had said in an interview this week that perhaps a four to six-week lock down could be useful in driving down covid-19 numbers if the government could cover financial losses and small business losses, but a biden transition aide telling cnn that that is not in line with what the president-elect is thinking, adding there are many members of the advisory board. jessica dean, cnn, wilmington. >> joining me in new york. cnn political analyst, and politics editor for the "new york times," patrick heely. good to see you. there are signs of cracks in the gop wall around the president and his strategy of crying foul.

the existence of that wall in light of the results is remarkable, isn't it? trump lost the three key states, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, by triple the margin he won them in 2016 when democrats conceded. why are most gop senators still silent on trump and his strategy? >> that's right. it's so striking that even though he has lost the presidency, he still retains a real iron grip over the party and particularly over the base. we haven't seen a republican president in decades, really, since ronald reagan who had such a close relationship with the republican party base. and even though trump now has lost, he still retains a lot of popularity, sort of a sympatico

with republican voters, some who want to leave the party, run for president in 2024, who may be up for election two years from now, they know the single most important endorsement right now at least will be coming from president trump. and to alienate him means potentially to alienate significant numbers of voters. now, this is the way politics is now. come a year from now, that may be very different, but a lot of republican officials are willing to take that risk. >> meanwhile, many analysts say the damage is being done to the democratic process because the senators and others are basically placating a president who's known for turning on anyone who doesn't agree with him. is it just fear? i mean, given the damage done, is it just they're scared of him? >> they are. they have been scared of him since, you know, 2018 when his endorsements or his opposition caused a few republicans to lose and even this time around, the

ability of this president to move voters, and, you know, in this case, winning even more voters in 2020 than he did in 2016 does put a lot of fear into these republican lawmakers. i think in some ways, though, they believe that this is just a moment in time, that the democratic process in america is more than 200 years old, that it will outlive donald trump, that allowing him to spend a few weeks filing lawsuits, making a lot of noise won't have a permanent effect. the problem really is, and we're going to see this pretty soon, whether republican legislators start mucking around with the process and further damaging it. >> i guess to the point you're making, then, do you think trump wants to retain effective control of the party going forward, either for power reasons or as some have suggested, the potential to monetize that control money from

supporters. do you think he wants to continue down that road, and what will become of the gop as a party? >> trump wants to keep control of the party. he's going to be creating essentially a political action committee that will be able to raise money and make endorsements and funnel money to candidates. he very much wants to stay in control. some people close to him think he's more interested instead that political role than being president and dealing with the problems of state. i think it is a continuing role that he wants to play, and i think that he knows that right now, there is no leader of the party in waiting. there's no one who has anywhere near his influence over republican party voters, whether it's vice president pence or senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, they're not able to command that kind of support. >> i wanted to squeeze in one more, joe biden, he talks about

being a deal maker, he has that reputation. will deals with republicans forward the agenda that democrats really want, and if senate leader mitch mcconnell is still in the driver's seat with the power of the yes or no after the georgia runoff, he could do what he did with president obama's agenda, just say no. >> he could. he could just stymy that agenda and give the democrats something to run against in 2022 to try to win control of the senate. it's going to be harder in 2022 if they're not able to win it this time around with the georgia runoffs. it would be something to run against. >> speak to go patrick heely of the "new york times" a little earlier. we're going to take a quick break. when we come back we'll have a look at america's coronavirus numbers. the u.s. keeps setting new records but there is hope for a change. we'll have details after the break. want to brain better?

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hopkins university. it's a staggering number topping more than a week of staggering numbers. thursday was the 10th consecutive day in which new case numbers topped 100,000. rising infection numbers of course lead to rising hospitalizations. and according to the covid tracking project, there were more than 67,000 americans in the hospital on thursday with covid-19. the highest number of the pandemic so far. but the country ke's top infectious disease expert says we're lucky because pfizer's potential vaccine may be more than 90% effective. dr. anthony fauci saying that effectiveness will encourage more people to hopefully take it. now, the approaching holidays here in the u.s. have many health experts worried about the spread of the virus. health and human services secretary alex azar saying people should make sacrifices to keep their loved ones safe, and

that doesn't have to mean staying home. it can mean going the extra mile and using increased safety precautions. >> as you think about your thanksgiving gathering, please address those circumstances there. reduce the number of people at your gathering, if you can open the windows, let more vent la s ventilation. we've got practical things. if you have a ceiling fan, set it so it pulls the air up instead of down. use single serve food for sl individual. wear your face mask. even if we make sacrifices, that sacrifice is for a reason, so everyone will be here for next christmas. >> joining me in la hoya, california, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at scripts

research institute. you tweeted about something i think is a really important issue. we know about the long haulers now, people with symptoms long after infection, but you were tweeting about this phenomena of even people who had relatively mild symptoms or moderate. we're really suffering. >> right. well, good to be with you, michael, this is the problem. there's this notion that you have to be really sick to have the long chronic form of covid, but it isn't true. it actually happens with mild cases, and especially more common in young people. this is the real issue that we're not in touch with. it's more frequent and in less severe cases than was initially envisioned. >> somebody put it, there is a chasm being recovery and death, and those people are feeling a horrible number there, more broadly, there is this accelerated climb going on right

now, hospitalizations at record levels. i think there's been a million positive cases since election day. the modeling suggesting numbers could double by january. i mean, what do you see ahead, and what can be done about it? many hospitals at or near capacity already. >> right. well, it is an out of control situation. it's desperate and what's amazing is so little is being done to respond to it. so the virus has an unrestrained ability to find new hosts, and we're not doing the things. it doesn't need a national lock down but we need to get universal mask mandates. we need to get closures of specific hot spots, places like bars, restaurants, gyms, those sorts of places. we also need to do cluster busting. that is prevent crowds, improve ventilation, maximize distancing, we're just not doing these things.

these are so simple. this is just public health 101, and they're being disregarded. they're being defied and that's the problem. >> and it's being said all throughout this there's been a lack of a coordinated national strategy. it's even worse so now. it just seems linike we're in a lame duck political period, and a lame duck period on coronavirus as well. nothing is happening. >> right, michael. it's not just lame duck, it's a blatant surrender. that's what we're seeing now, let it rip. this is the policy that scott atlas espoused and president trump basically adopted and we're seeing it play out. and it's just, it's a horror show to see in real life, especially we know so much better than this. >> the fatality numbers are just striking. speak to that point. speak to the public attitudes. i keep thinking back, and i say to my young adult kids, too, think back in april and may how consumed everyone was, how

aware, how terrifying it was. yet now people seem to be, many seem to be relaxed about the risk, even though it is much worse. >> that's right. so there's a complacency. there's this pandemic fatigue. i mean, we're seeing it of course in europe as well. the difference, though, in the u.s. is we're starting without having ever achieved containment. that was achieved throughout europe, but here, we never got below 20,000 new cases a day, and now we're well over a 150,000 new cases. so we have a terrible situation here because of that fatigue added to the fact that we just have a large proportion of americans who don't adopt the things that we know would help. >> and just briefly, if you will, there seems to be an awful lot of hope being placed on vaccines. i mean, do you think, i mean, they're not going to be a light switch, they're going to be a dimmer, does that make sense? >> it is the most exciting thing

since this pandemic started as far as positive news. this virus is going to be squashed some day through the efforts of vaccination programs. it's going to take a while, as you point out, michael. it's a dimmer, but, you know, the point is that we didn't know until this week that we could get this virus with a vaccine. that we could get high efficacy. we thought, you know, 50, 60%. not 90%. that changes the whole equation. that means we can get there faster, that is that dimming as you point out. we also don't need quite as many people to get vaccinated to get there. so good news is there is light at the end of the tunnel, and maybe by mid year next year, if we're fortunate, and we get several different vaccines with that high efficacy, we'll get there. >> we all hope for that. doctor, thank you so much, we really appreciate your time. >> thank you, michael. now far too many cases of

covid end with the death of a loved one. in northern mexico, nurse sergio humberto hernandez tried to prepare his family hours before he died by recording this video as his lungs were failing, a message of love. listen. >>. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> almost everyone in his family contracted the virus, including his mother and father, his sister died of it. the family started a go fund me page to pay for their $50,000 medical debts. grief stricken relatives say he

was so dedicated to service, he worked at the very hospital which treated his family. hadia hernandez leaves a healthy wife and son behind. he was just 28 years old. >> covid, as we know, is a truly global crisis. next, we'll take you to europe which is dealing with startling new numbers of infections. stay with us for more on how people there are coping. today's ways of working, may work differently tomorrow.

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president-elect joe biden has been fielding congratulatory phone calls from world leaders including pope francis, but china had been conspicuously silent until now. in a statement released just a short time ago, the foreign ministry said it's been following the election closely and respects the choice of the american people. cnn's ivan watson joins us now from hong kong. a lot of people have been waiting for this. tell us more about what they said? >> as recently as monday, michael, the chinese government was not weighing in on vice president biden, president-elect biden's electoral victory. but now the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson has come out to congratulate biden and vice president-elect harris, so we have this very surreal situation where china adds itself to the growing list of nations around the world congratulating them on their victory while the acting, sitting president continues to

deny this electoral victory. take a listen to what the spokesperson for china's foreign ministry had to say. >>. >> translator: we have been following the reactions to the u.s. presidential election of both the united states and the international community. we respect the choice of the american people. we extend congratulations to mr. biden and ms. harris, meanwhile, we understand the results of the u.s. election will be determined according to u.s. laws and procedures. >> now, michael, let's be clear. u.s./chinese relations are at the worst point that they've probably been in decades, and in that same briefing, that diplomat went on to really slam the current u.s. secretary of state, mike pompeo, accusing him of fabricating lies, of having a sinister intention, when he previously in an interview talked about taiwan not being part of the rest of china when

he repeated his plan for decoupling telecommunications between the u.s. and china and u.s. allies in what he calls his clean network. there are a whole host of areas where there is really a lot of tension between washington and beijing right now. one of them, for example, just this week, president trump signed an executive order banning investment into chinese firms that have relations to the chinese military, and that's another area that was slammed by the chinese foreign ministry today. president-elect biden has made clear that he is also going to be tough on china but won difference we may see is that he is calling for a multilateral approach in confronting the world's second largest economy, bringing in u.s. allies to put pressure on china to, as biden puts it, follow international

rules. but one area that chinese state media has indicated where they think there could at least be a temporary reprieve in the tensions is they have indicated that they want and biden to work with professional diplomats so there could at least be some more professional communication as opposed to the very mercurial and erratic communication that we have been seeing from the trump administration on in international forum. michael. >> yeah, and almost certainly a lot less of the communication via tweet. ivan watson in hong kong, appreciate it. thanks for keeping an eye on it for us. now, europe is struggling with alarming new covid-19 numbers. germany and the uk reporting record daily infections. figures in the tens of thousands for each of those countries. now, portugal also reporting its daily, biggest daily increase in cases. thursday was the country's second deadliest day.

the deadliest just a day before that. and hospitals in france filling with covid-19 patients, the french prime minister says the virus is responsible now for one in every four deaths in the country right now. cnn's melissa bell joins me now live from paris, 25% of the country's deaths. you got this lock down or partial lock down in action. what are you seeing in terms of results around where you are and europe? >> well, michael for the time being, of course, it's been, what, just over ten days coming up to two weeks, which is why we heard from the french prime minister yesterday. the idea was to look at how effective this partial lock down we're under had been. so what he said was there was a slight improvement in terms of the number of new daily cases. you're not seeing that for the time being as you mentioned over in germany, but clearly with hospitalizations still massively up and rising, entries into icus

reaching extremely worrying points, in terms of the functioning of the health care system, he said it would be irresponsible to change anything else. for now, this partial lock down we're under will stay. the first covid-19 wave in europe was stopped like this. cities like paris locked down for weeks with millions of europeans confined to their homes, and it worked. the first wave was under control by the summer. but two weeks into the second national lock down, cases and hospitalizations are still rising throughout france. paris under this second partial lock down feels very different. take its most famous treat, the champs-elysees, anything you might do for fun, a clothes shop, cafe, you can't do. everything is shut, but this time around, kids are in school, and many more people are going out to work. an effort on the part of the

government to keep an already battered economy as open as possible. will the partial long downs now in place in several european countries prove strict enough, from belgium's beaches, to the cafes of italy, to the streets of paris, a fine line is sought from too much to too little freedom on a continent hit hard by the second wave. this week, the united kingdom had its highest single wave death toll. icus in several countries are under strain. in naples, some hospitals so overwhelmed, they have been giving oxygen while they wait to admit them, transferring dozens of patients from cities where hospitals are full to other cities, including germany. >> i think we are heading rather fast, a major medical catastrophe. the hospitals will not be able to cope with patients, whether they arrive because they have covid-19 or whether they arrive because they have another

emergency, and because this lock down is rather mellow. >> this week, italy became the fourth european country to pass the million case mark. a growing number of regions are now on partial lock down or their people have continued to meet in bars and cafes. >> people today don't take this situation seriously. it will get another lock down. people will not die because coronavirus but we'll die because they don't work, and they don't have money. >> reporter: patients with restrictions have been wearing thin these last couple of weeks. in milan, protesters faced off with anti-riot police firing tear gas. in spain, there were protesters against mask wearers and in france, more resistance over teachers going on strike over the difficulties of enforces social distancing in classrooms.

restaurateur meanwhile are doing what they can to weather the storm, with many doing take away for the first time since this could be the shape of things until a vaccine is found. >> so the next update will come in a couple of weeks time when the french government will either announce loosening of the current set up or further tightening of it. finally on those figures, absolutely alarming this second wave in france has led to a hospitalization every 30 seconds and an entry into icu every three minutes. those are the current figures and those are the ones that the authorities are going to be looking at to make sure the health care system continues to function. >> melissa bell, thank you. appreciate it there in paris for us. we'll take a quick break. when we come back on the program, moving to a new u.s. foreign policy, one priority for the president-elect, iran. and fixing damage done to the nuclear agreement.

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president-elect joe biden is forging ahead with his foreign policy strategy regardless of obstruction by the trump administration. he's already made some of his priorities clear. take iran and the nuclear deal that president trump up ended. now, during the campaign, biden wrote in an op-ed for cnn what he would do as president. i'm going to read some of that. quote first i will make an unshakable commitment to prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. second i will offer teheran a credible path back to diplomacy.

if iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the united states would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow on negotiations. joining me now, executive vice president for the quincy institute, also the author of a book, losing an enemy, obama, iran and the triumph of diplomacy. always good to see you. it's been a while. let's start with this. when it comes to what joe biden can do in terms of foreign policy it's important to look at, i guess, what he can undo, and near the top of the list would be the iran nuclear deal. you are writing in foreign fa s affairs about what you see as effort to sabotage the effort for the u.s. to engage in that. what do you see as the possible path? >> on to your first point, you're absolutely right, a lot of things that biden is going to be doing is to undo things that

the trump administration did, such as the iran deal, as well as paris, icc and a whole lot of other agreements, w.h.o. as well. when it comes to iran, what the trump administration is trying to do right now is to impose as many sanctions as they can before inauguration day. with the calculation that this will make it next to impossible for the biden administration to undo and as a result had make it impossible for the biden administration to revive the jcpoa, the iran nuclear deal. i don't think they're going to succeed, but i think it is quite telling that their intention is to sabotage is, which then tells us all of this talk that sanctions were just there in order to get the iranians to the table, not at all, they're doing it just to sabotage things. >> what if biden does move to tangibly improve relations with iran, heaven forbid, normalization, let's go right

out there, what would be the likely fallout with nations that trump courted so assiduously, the arab emirates, israel and so on. >> i think it's important to understand, many of these states have their own rivalries with iran. they have their legitimate concerns about iran. but, u.s. national interests is a separate thing. the united states and iran have not had normalized relations for more than 40 years now. it's been to the detriment of both countries. just take the example of the jcpoa, if they were established and robust channels of communication through an embassy in both capitals, i find it highly unlikely that the trump administration would have been able to do the damage that they did to the jcpoa because there would have been channels of communication and the iranians would have been able to talk to the trump administration and had an ability to impact things. that didn't exist, and as a result, this hard fought nuclear deal ended up being extremely fragile because one single

president could come in and undo everything. i think both of them have an interest in this but there's going to be obstacles both in iran and the u.s. and there's going to be obstacles in israel, and abu dhabi because they prefer the united states are not at logger heads and the united states uses its military, and political and economic power in order to keep the balance of power in the region such that iran is contained and to the benefit of saudi arabia, uae, et cetera. whether that is in america's interest, however is a different story. >> that is a very different question. i can talk about iran and policy all night, but i did want to get your thoughts since we had you in the broader foreign policy arena, what do you see as the general reaction among allies and foes to the trump defeat, and what perhaps could substantially change or substantially change under president biden. there's going to have to be a lot of fence mending for starters.

>> a very large number. a clear majority of countries are pleased to see trump is leaving, clearly in israel and saudi arabia, and uae, they had hoped for trump, invested heavily in trump. and also for those countries hoping for a biden victory, they need to temper their expectations a bit in the sense that some of the things they didn't like about trump, such as wanting to pull out of afghanistan, wanting to pull out of nato and reevaluating alliances, some of that, i suspect, is going to continue because the american public is increasingly tired of america playing the role of world policeman. >> now, thanks to treater parsi of the quincy institute for responsible state craft speaking to me there a little earlier. now, barack obama set to release his latest memoir about his presidency, and he discusses how president trump exploited racial fears about the first black president to launch his

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obama is speaking out about president trump's refusal to concede the election ten days

after the fact. besides being disturbed by mr. trump's false, but incessant claims of election fraud, obama says he is especially dismayed by the silence from congressional republicans. he spoke to cbs about how their compliance threatens democracy. >> they appear to be motivated in part because the president doesn't like to lose and never admits loss. i'm more troubled by the fact that other republican officials who clearly know better are going along with this, are humoring him in this fashion. it is one more step in delegitimizing, not just the incoming biden administration, but democracy generally, and that's a dangerous path. >> the former president has written a new memoir about his

time in the white house. it is entitled "a promised land" set to be released next tuesday, and he has a lot to say about his vice president joe biden. cnn's brian todd with a look. >> reporter: in the home stretch of joe biden's campaign, former president barack obama was front and center, energizing crowds and building support for his close friend. >> and it felt like the old days. for eight years, he was the last one in the room whenever i faced a big decision. >> reporter: the former president delves into his complete confidence in joe biden, in his new memoir, "a promised land" obtained by cnn, and says this about selecting biden as hi running mate in 2008. quote, my gut told me that joe was decent, honest and loyal. i believe that he cared about ordinary people, and that when things got tough, i could trust him, i wouldn't be disappointed. >> we never saw joe biden really going out and contradicting the

president or undermining him or trying to attack him or even, you know, there being whispers in the media about disagreements between joe biden and obama. >> reporter: some of the most powerful sections in obama's 768 page book deal with the struggles of a racial tension in america during his time in office. donald trump's race baiting and m his birther conspiracy theory, the false claim that obama chs not born in the u.s. were particularly frustrating. obama's white house team initially saw birtherism as a joke, but trump persisted. obama against the advice of his aides, released his birth certificate in the white house briefing room but told young staffers, quote, we're better than this. remember that. still, it seemed an unsettling tone had been set. >> especially in the second half of president obama's time in office, he did spend a lot of time battling the very forces that brought trump into power, the sentiment against him as the first black president, the angst in the country about the idea of

a changing demographic. >> obama writes that his predecessor, george w. bush could not have been more gracious during their transition. that bush's daughters, jenna and barbara gave obama's daughters, sasha and malia, their own tour of the white house, quote, president bush would end up doing all he could to make the eleven weeks between my election and his departure go smoothly. trump refusing to accept biden's victory. >> this is the ugliest that we have ever seen and our founding fathers are probably turning over watching this from wherever they are. >> reporter: obama also gets intensely personal, especially about the toll his presidency took on his wife michelle. quote, all her previous sources of frustration became more concentrated, more vivid, whether it was my round the clock abosorbs with work or the

whey plit exposed our family to scrutiny. >> they put their hearts on the line to be attacked, to be chastised to be made fun of. >> reporter: one of the white house reporters we interviewed said he'll be interested to hear how former president obama sees the upcoming biden administration, whether obama will view that as a return to normal or whether that's even possible. we may learn that in the next volume of obama's memoir, which is coming later. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> that will do it for cnn newsroom, thanks for spending part of your day with me. "early start" is up next. you're watching cnn. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference. do you have a life insurance

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welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "early start," i'm laura jarrett. >> and i'm christine romans, friday, november 13th, breaking overnight, cnn now projecting president-elect joe biden will win arizona. a long time republican stronghold and the home state of the late gop presidential nominee john mccain. president trump has repeatedly attacked the republican senator even after his death in 2018, furious that mccain voted against repealing obama care, last night, cindy mccn