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the peaceful transfer of power, the notion that any of us who obtained an elected office whether it is a president, are servant of the people. it is a tremporary job. we are not above the law. that's the essence of our democracy. >> thank you for joining us, andreas lubitz anderson starts now. >> good evening, the out going of the president of the united states still refused to accept that -- you know what -- it does not matter. i was about to start off telling you about you know who and what outrage he's done and not accepting the results and blah blah blah and claiming fraud here. it does not matter. he's done, joe biden is the president of the future.
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he's the president-elect. let's start tonight by talking about him. today cnn and other news outlets projected when the recount over, president biden will be the winner in georgia, the exact number of the current person in the white house got in 2016 which he called a landslide back then. the hand recount got started in georgia. it is said to go smoothly on a bipartisan basis despite georgia's secretary of state is under covid quarantine. in pennsylvania the law firm blocking president-elect win and withdrew the case. federal prosecutor assigned the justice department to monitor,
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the attorney general barr telling him they found no evidence of substantial irregularitie irregularities. that's what happened today. that's what matters. of course, president trump is still president and his people are still out there trying to keep their boss from turning on down. there is no point of getting all riled up about it. it does not matter. take a look at this. it does not matter. >> are you prepared to say that the president trump will attend the inauguration? >> i think the president will attend his own inauguration. he would have to be there in fact. >> you really think you can turn this around? >> absolutely. >> what she says absolutely does not matter. it just does not. we can go into all the reasons that he does not concede or does not want to be in the spotlight or admit defeat or how he was raised by his stern father, it
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does not matter. please, it just does not matter. there is a lot that still matter. i want to talk about that. the country reported more new coronavirus infections than any other day. ever. there are people right now in crowded icus all across the country. some icus don't have anymore beds. there are people in icus right now fighting for their lives, fighting for each painful breath they can get. people who should not be there because we should have worn masks more, all of us, myself included. we should have social distance more. we should have had leaders took this seriously in the white house. this is what matters now. there is a kid at home right now scared to death because his dad is in the hospital and he does not know if he'll ever get to see him again. do you know what it feels like?
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we didn't do enough. take a look at this graph. that's where we are right now. we are on a line heading straight up nearly. nearly straight up. i can't spend another second concerned of what a grown man who lost fair and square is not ready to accept, ni am not read to accept there could be 400,000 dead by the 1st of february. it does not matter what i think or cannot accept. that's the reality if we don't do better. more than 160,000 new cases today. 1,306 reported fatalities. 1,306 human beings, our fellow country men and women dead. more will die in this hour and next hours to come. illinois today hit another record more than 15,000 new cases and a record number of people in the hospital, record
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hospitalization numbers in the country as well. in wisconsin, the mayor says his hospitals are full and not just icus but all beds are full. >> we have this update. >> it is well above what we can tolerate right now and still save lives. i don't know why it is continuing to get worse. from a healthcare standpoint, we are tapped out. our beds are getting full and nurses are exhausted and we are exhausted. physicians are exhausted. >> the president spoke about covid in the rose garden. thank goodness he finally says something about it. he praised the vaccine. by all indication, it is good news. the president had little to say, not that it matters. seems like most people looking at him for comfort and empathy for a long, long time ago. of course he lied about testing and praises his leadership and
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blah blah blah, not going to go into the details of his lies. don't matter anymore. he's leaving and he's the past. blaming new york's governor and we'll talk to the governor tonight. he always ends up doing what he falsely accuses others of, he did not mention the current surge and nothing to address it. what he says precisely of what joe biden would do about now. >> that's all i hear about now. turn on the television, covid, covid, a plane goes down, 500 people dead, they don't talk about it. covid, covid. by the way, november 4th, you won't hear about it anymore. >> well, you will hear about it because you must hear about it. while i sit here tonight not thinking about how many breaths i am taking, there are thousands and thousands of people gasping
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for breath. we must hear them and do what we can to help them. this thing the president says no one would be talking about it anymore as the biden's team stated first priority. can they deliver? i don't know. if they lie and make mistakes as this past administration? we'll report diligently. at least the president-elect is talking about covid and has been all along. that matters. wearing a mask matters. the president is doing everything they can to sabotage their efforts. that's one thing the president is doing that really does matter right now. more now from our jim acosta. this is the first time we have seen president trump over a week, first time i have seen him talked about covid for a while. his loss is further -- the legal battles are falling apart. when is the inevitable going to
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happen? >> reporter: well, he was pretending in his rose garden that there is some sort of way for him to get back to the white house. he was talking about at some point he's not going to let this country going into the lockdown but proceeded whatever the next administration will do, almost catching himself and acknowledging that joe biden will be taking the keys of the oval office in january. the president is unlikely to ever concede this race but will likely exit the stage on january 20th as expected. that's the plan at this point. the adviser compares this president to the 1991 detroit pistons who famously refused to shake hand with the chicago bulls who beat them in the playoffs. the president just enjoys being the bad boy and he's going to continue to do that. but putting that to the side, anderson, what was sad of what
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we saw in the rose garden, the president did not take questions and he seems to be out there to soothe his damaged ego. he was talking about the situation in new york and the pandemic as if his policies going to have some sort of effect on all of this after january 20th and that's just not the case. he's been tweeting, talking about how he won this state and that state. we have to pay attention to those tweets because he's the president. after january 20th, he just goes back to another crack pot on the internet. >> jim acosta. a widespread of distribution of vaccine and the president signals out new york and the new york's governor. >> a vaccine will be available for the entire region but within the exception of new york and the new york's governor.
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i don't think it is bad. he wants to take his time with the vaccine. he does not trust where the vaccine is coming from. he had some very bad editorials recently about this statement and what's happening with respect to nursing homes and his handling of nursing homes. i hope he does not handle this badly as he's handling those nursing homes. we are ready to provide as soon as they let us know. >> governor cuomo is joining us and the author of "american crisis." first of all, the idea of the united states withholding the vaccine from the citizens of new york, your thoughts? >> yeah, good to be with you anderson. i think your opening point is very powerful and frames the entire conversation. what the president says does not matter. it is not true as usual.
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what he's going to do in april. he's not going to be here in april. that i said i would not distribute the vaccine, not true but it does not matter. there are editorials and it is not true but it does in the matter. he's talking about his friend rupert murdoch. there is going to be a vaccine with foovizer. americans are going to have to trust that vaccine and take it. that matters. right now about half of the people in this country, anderson, say they don't trust the vaccine. that's the kaiser pulling the cnn's polls and network polls, all say the same thing that they
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fear trump politicize the approval process of the vaccine and therefore they don't trust it. nol one no one is going to put a needle in their arms if they don't trust the vaccine. our panel is head by a nobel prize lawyuriet. to the extent of trump and distrust of trump and he politicized the public health process which he did. new york is one of those states. there are about seven.
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>> when you talk about this panel -- when you talk about this panel, this is not something that you have to wait until the vaccines start to be distributed and you are going to sit around and think about it and make calls about it. this is something that can happen at the same time as the cdc and others are viewing. >> ocf course, the president dos not tell the truth. why would he want me to tell you? you are right, it does not matter anymore. what does matter is his lying has hurt the nation in many ways. his lying has hurt the nation in that half the americans don't trust the vaccine. if they don't trust it, they're not going to take it. my challenge is and other governors that how do you restore that trust? we came up with these state panels all top pros who'll
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review what fda did and the protocols and i can say to the people of my state, it is safe and take it. distributing 330 million vaccines is going to be the most ambitious under taken since this started. >> i have talking to sanjay about it. this pfizer vaccine has to be stored in really cold temperature, i don't know the exact farenheit, it is incredibly cold, cold and not, you know, there is a lot of places don't have that kind of refrigeration. how is that going to be done in new york state? do we know yet? >> we don't know yet. that's why when you talk about what we should really be focused on -- look, let's focus on not making the same mistake twice, right? this federal government was unprepared for covid.
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they were in come at the present ti incompetent in their response. they could not figure out how to get nasal swabs. we have done 120 million nationwide. that's with every state. 120 million covid tests. we have to do 330 million vaccines. how long is that going to take? stored at deep cold and who has that equipment? how do we get those vaccines to black and brown communities and poor communities? i mean there are a lot of questions here that have not been answered and don't everyn e occur to this federal government. i believe joe biden is going to be ready for the challenge and as ready as anyone can be. i worked with him for many years and i know his team. what we are trying to solve is this skepticism by the american people who say they don't trust
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the vaccine which is going to be a major problem because on top of all the logistics if you don't have people willing to take it, that's going to be a real challenge. >> let's talk about new york state and new york city and what you are facing now and the next couple of weeks and months look like because obviously in every state is different but the trend is alarming and you already made some moves on bars and restaurants in terms of the hours that they can stay open and gyms in new york are still opened. you allowed 30% capacity. i go to a gym and hardly anyone there. do you see -- is the next step shutting down places or do you see that or if that happens, would that will be a statewide thing? would it be hot spots? >> nobody really knows.
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what we have done in new york as been working. we follow the signs and we follow the data and remember we are at the highest infection rate of united states of america. we are now one of the lowest. our problem is, there is a surge around us. it is high-tide on the covid sea internationally and nationally. the states around new york all have high infection rate. you are in the holiday season, people are traveling. you say don't have groups, it is thanksgiving and christmas and hanukkah and it is winter. you will see the numbers continue to go up. new yorkers at a low level but you are seeing the numbers go up. we are adding restrictions as those go up. we are urging diligence, yes, there is a vaccine but it is not tomorrow. president trump is talking about april. you can't sustain an increase
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through april. if people think the vaccine is the answer. we can't make it. that's the light at the end of the tunnel but it is a long tunnel. we tend to focus and we do so many tests that we tend to focus on small areas. neighborhood levels and what we call micro clusters. as soon as we see a jump in the number, we stamp it out. that's where we call those hot spots. today 200,000 tests, more tests than any state in the country. once we see a flare up, we jump on it. you will see a steady increase through the holiday season, at least. that's scary. >> governor cuomo, i appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you. >> we'll have biden's victory in georgia and the fight of the two senates. mayor of atlanta will join us and we'll talk to anthony
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ago. >> we had an electoral college landslide. >> and it got bigger and bigger and wilder and wilder. it was 306 to 223. that's a lot. >> that was an excuse for the democrats who lost an election who got their ass kicked. 306-223. that's a good -- >> does not matter. >> he's the past, jon king joins us, he's back at the magic wall. walk us through the loss. >> i will walk you through the loss. people say it is pretty big, the biden's win. we projected georgia today. a state no democrats won.
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it is now for joe biden. we are confident this one will stay in biden's call not since 1982. the president did gain something today, we finally projected north carolina. he has a lead there of 84,000 votes. that'll stay red. when you think of the biden's victory now that the map is complete. joe biden says he'll win back the blue wall. what the democrats hope for the future is the map changing win here and the map changing win there. 1992 and 1996. if you dpo bago back in time th what the president called the landsli landslide. not only he wins impressive but
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he delivered the change up here. electoral college win, you may say some karma in that. that was the same in four years ago. if the president thinks it is a big landslide then, it is a big landslide now. >> where does the popular vote stand tonight? >> this is really fascinating to think about in this election. joe biden has 78 million votes. that's more votes than any candidate for presidents in america's history. biden without a doubt can say he has a mandate. here is the challenge going forward. the president who has yet to accept the reality, one of this things he'll do when he leaves, he has the second highest totals, 72 million votes. he increased his vote total from four years ago.
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you know the president is going to use that to say i am not going anywhere even when he's out of the white house. >> let's talk about what's going on in georgia. i am joined by the mayor there. thank you very much for being with us. extraordinary of what we are witnessing in georgia. the biden's campaign they are confident of what cnn projected today that president-elect biden won that state. do you share that confidence? >> i do share that confidence. recount don't favor the losers. sometimes we see the vote tally go up. with such a wide margin, 14,000 votes, that's a pretty significant amount and i trust that recount will give the people the confident that this election should stand in georgia. we are looking for the
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opportunity to elect two democratic senators to the senate. >> let's talk about that. the run off election to the senate really just begun. many see them a proxy fight for the national race and all eyes are going to be on georgia. the power in the senate hangs in the balance. what is your greatest concerns about it right now? some republicans feel that the charges of voter fraud suppress republicans turnout and the idea of you know of what the president is refusing to do is going to motivate the democratic's turnout. what do you think is the reality? >> it is going to be extremely important not just to get people back out who voted in the
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election just a couple of weeks ago. we got to excite the entire base to turn out to vote. this whole notion of fraud this year in georgia other than the first couple of days of early voting where we saw the glitches of the machine and the long voting lines, we have not received any credible information that there is any fraud in the state and so it is about people recognizing what this means to joe biden. people in the state turned out to vote for joe biden and kamala harris. they'll need the support of the senate and the opportunity to have georgia elect two senators at once is not one that i have seen in my lifetime. usually our senate races don't go into a run-off. we had a record turn out with almost 5 million voters. this election and i anticipate
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we are going to have a record high turn out for the run off in january. >> you think there is a record high turnout. what do you attribute it to in the presidential race? i assume passions about for/against president trump played a big role. just in terms of voter registration efforts, what has that been like? >> yes, it has been a combination of work across the states and we have more voter registrations in the state. we have 800,000 new voters, register to vote when you go register your vote. our state is turning younger and our state is trending more diverse. you have groups such as stacey abrams group, the naacp and
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sorority and everybody out to vote. there was an opportunity to turn georgia blue. many thought would not be until 2022. every single opportunity, i had to tell them there is an opportunity here. i know that i took that opportunity to do it even including when i went through my vet and i know other people did it as well. we saw joe biden and kamala harris and barack obama came into georgia. that has not happened in a long time. i was 22 years old. it has been a long time. >> looking at the pandemic, many hospitals are surging in georgia and a lot of places. you certainly bumping ahead with governor kemp of how to fight this spread.
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what measures are you considering? >> well, atlanta is still in phase two of reopening. so we are still encouraging people to take precautions and also the mask mandate, the public fight that we had with the governor over the mask-mandate have helped us some. it is given us the opportunity to educate us on masks. every mayor has an opportunity to mandate masks in their respected community. back to your previous question. that was part of the reason we had such a high turnout in the state as well. we were very hard hit with covid early on. that matters to people. people recognize the election have consequences and consequences in this state with the election of the governor making the best decisions on covid and we have seen that at a
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national level. >> mayor lance-bottoms, i appreciate you. >> up next with anthony scarramucci of what melee ahead for all of us. the right plan f. like the "visit a doctor anywhere our rv takes us" plan. the "zero copays means more money for rumba lessons" plan. and the "visit my doctor while eating pancakes" plan. unitedhealthcare is the #1 medicare plan provider, so you're sure to find the right plan for you. including the only plans with the aarp name. get medicare with more. americans from both parties. turned out to vote in numbers like we haven't seen in a hundred years. and election officials counted those votes carefully, transparently and in accordance with the law. so, no matter who you voted for, if you cast a ballot,
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not just in terms of when the president accept reality and concede as every president before him has. joe biden is the future. donald trump is the past. our communications director,
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anthony scarramucci. there is no evidence of fraud as the president has been claiming. it is comical now at this point. it is sad because there is awfully a lot of people out there who loved the president and believed it but it is not out there. >> well, anderson. it is not out there and there is more covid cases around the president than there are actually proven fraudulent votes. somebody should tell him that. you had this pour case of the third scircuit ruled today gen against the president. that's the firewall. somebody on his legal team is going to brief him there is no circuit tree that we can come up with to overturn this election. general kelly spoke out today. there is pressure on him in the senate and at some point he's
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going to have to cave. it will be an upsetting day for him. but, he's got to cave. that's coming imminently in the next week or so. for myself, the thing that i am worried about is the constant coddling of him, i am not understanding why the gop at this point still needs to coddle him. the georgia races don't make enough sense to do this. it is creating too much damage and putting the country in a potential national security risk. >> is it fear of his supporters and fear of him launching h his -- even when he's out of office or whatever media network he develops or podcast or radio show he has. kind of launching attacks at gop figures which he more than capable and likely to do. >> that may be true but it is jim acosta says about him
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becoming another crack pot on twitter. knowing his personality as well as i do, i don't see him parading around this loss. he says the vice president was the worst candidate in history and if i lose to this guy, you may never see me again. that's a real tale. it is not clear that he'll be parading around this loss. he's one of three american presidents after the second world war. that loss to presidency, you have 140,000 people getting v o covid daily. and the death totals in the 1200 lefr level. we could be going into more lockdowns. i don't see it the way they see it. the 72 million people as you recall. i think these people are voting for themselves. the president may hear a signal they're voting for him. i don't see that.
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he denigrated western leaders and lied about the science of the pandemic and lied of the usage of masks and destroyed the u.s. economy. i think when people frame it the right way, those 72 million people actually voted for themselves. they feel the system is unfair to them and they need help. the vice president's message is a healing message and he'll produce the right policies for those people and when that happens, anderson, their anger is going to dissipate and they're going to look back and say wow, why did we need that level offing aggregation in our country? i don't see it that way. real leadership and gop will require them to stop being intimidated by him. >> people talk about a reckoning with the gop. it does not seem to be one if the current president running in
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four years and hanging that over them, i can't imagine ted cruz and marco rubio, are theypillow. the idea hanging over them preventing them exercising their president, does the gop -- >> that's a disaster for them. i think that'll be an unmitigated disaster. they need to expand that party. that party needs to be shaped in the colorful and beautiful mosaic of the people. this type of demonization and nationalism. the people want a leader that can bring them together and heal. i think one of the mandates that came out of the 2020 election, they wanted a divided government
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and people get together in the middle so the partisan rank in triablism of trump is dead on arrival on january 21st. >> i think if they're afraid of him then they're not the leaders that we need to ascend as presidency. these guys that are couching to him now, how are they going to stand up to vladimir putin if they can't stand up to donald trump. >> i think you are probably right about most americans some where in the center and that's generally where there is a divided government and do you really believe those clearly president-elect biden has reached out. a, i think he believes it and that's what he's done in the past and he reached out to republicans. do you this i tnk the republica party shown any signs not accepting him as president-elect yet and willing to give
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bipartisan ship a chance? >> it is not clear right now. it is unclear right now, i would like to think that these guys got very good political instincts and they see what happened in this election. the electoral results as being something the nation wants. the republicans have their eyes on the midterm elections. i hope they'll do that anderson because the country needs that right now. we are in desperate need of a stimulus for lower and middle income families. we need help on the infrastructure and equalizing k-12 education, making the public school system more fair across the nation. there is a lot of room there to compromise for both parties. if they don't do that, they're going to narrow up the republicans. the republicans know they're
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becoming the republican party and they see what's going on in arizona and georgia and real leadership would require them to expand the trump, not to what mr. trump did or the president did which would drill them down deeper in the tent. there is a big opportunity right now to make that shift and entrepreneurs were called and adapt and pivot, they lost the election, handedly. it was five or six million popular votes and electoral landslide according to the president. >> anthony scarramucci, appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> the coronavirus outbreak and according to "the washington post" of those charged guarding the president, the secret service that warned us more than a month ago, joins us. next. a majority of adults who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it.
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the u.s. hitting a new daily high of covid cases.
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hospitalizations, a new high today as well. 68,516. seven days average up to 20% verses last week. more than 130 secret service officers infected by covid in the wake of president trump's travel, those campaign travels, rallies. three unnamed forces told the post it is linked to president trump's rallies in the weeks before the election. in early october, our next guest flagged that behavior that's dangerous. dr. james, the risk of covid-19 transition inside is as high as it gets outside of medical procedures. the responsibility is astounding. he added that every single
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person in the vehicle during that drive-by has to be quarantined for 14 days, they may get sick or died for political theater. commanded by trump to put their lyes at risk for theater. this is insanity. joining us epidemiologist, dr. phillips. >> you talked about the danger in that vehicle and we are seeing more than 100 secret service agents having to quarantine. this obviously was preventable or some of that was preventable. >> yes, you would think so. this joyride the president took is completely unnecessary. what we know about the coronavirus is a factor of
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distance and time. while there are always the need of secret service to be closed. when someone got a deadly infectious deciisease, that cou be minimized in the location where he was. in order for him to put those officers and those agents at risk by going on a completely unnecessary trip is just a tr true -- and a pattern of him using his people as a political mean. >> it is the highest number of the pandemic. as a member of the president-elect covid advisory board, how concerned are you the country will be in january when the biden/harris takes office and how is that informing you and the advisory board are doing now? >> anderson, we are looking at some couple of really tough months ahead. i think part of the challenge is
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that unfortunately the current administration have not been cooperating with the transition team by sharing information and plans. this is essentially a national security threat. the way that americans are getting infected and sicken by coronavirus and dying from coronavirus and how the economy is being impacted by the coronavirus. this is truly a national security threat. i can't imagine another situation if we were in the midst of a war that you would not have hand off information and plans to a succeeding president. i am quite concerned and not to mention that we are coming into the holiday season which could be themselves super spreader events and pouring gasoline on what is already a raging fire. >> dr. phillips, how concerned are you of folks gathering from all over together for thanksgiving and the holidays, obviously it is horrible to even
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talk about with the possibility of families not able to do that or not choosing to do that but it is understandable, what do you think is the risk here? >> i think the risk is great. the something really bad. we've got cold weather where people are indoors. we've got the holiday season with thanksgiving, hanukkah, christmas when people want to gather with their family. and this unnecessary political environment we're in right now. you add to it flu season and the frustrations all americans have been feeling from undertaking them since spring. people want to forego masks and believe they're safe with their family in their bubble. they're going to take off their masks, hug, and share food around the table, things we all wish we should do. i would ask people to make
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sacrifices, try not to go home, try not to visit your elderly family members and bring diseases home. students and high schools and junior highs and elementary schools will be visiting with older family members and potentially bringing in disease asymptomatically. it's not the time to let our guard down. just as we see the results of covid spread during thanksgiving, we'll be coming into christmas. i think that what the mayor of chicago is doing with these stay-at-home orders is just the first domino that's going to start to fall across the country with enhanced restrictions particularly as we enter the holidays. >> dr. gounder, how do we prevent that as much as possible? i guess as individuals it comes down to mask wearing and social distancing. >> no, and that's right, at or around. the mask wearing cannot be underestimated, the role that have is crucial. it's unfortunate that that has been politicized. i would compare mask wearing to using toilet paper. it is a basic hygienic measure
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that should never have become a political symbol. nation that, i do think people need to think carefully about how they're going to celebrate thanksgiving. i've heard people in my own circle say, i trust them. it's not about trust. in fact it's the people who you trust and are closest to you who are most likely to be the source of transmission to you. it's not that they're doing anything wrong, they may not even realize they're infected, but these are the people you let your guard down around and you're most likely to be exposed in that setting. >> and dr. phillips, with this continued lack of federal government leadership, do you believe that mayors and governors should be instituting stay-at-home orders again? i guess it depends just on the locality and where things are at in that moment. >> i think that the plan is to be as strategic as possible. we don't want widespread shutdowns that lead to economic downturn. i think the biden plan is to be
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as strategic as possible. but in cities that have high infectivity rates, those local leaders seriously have to consider what mayor lightfoot has done in chicago. >> dr. gounger, dr. phillips, thanks. there are now 170,000 new cases yesterday. thanks for being with us. ahead, how you can help tell the stories of those who made this world better this year, when we return. (avo) what kind of value are you looking for
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this has surely been one of the most stressful years in this country when both physically and spiritually, two big events, the coronavirus pandemic and the quest for racial justice have sometimes seemed to large and systemic to defeat. in both cases we've seen heroes who have made it their mission to make this corner of the world a little better, people who we might not have known otherwise, people we need your help to celebrate this year's cnn heroes. >> reporter: before we never noticed the shift change. we didn't see the health care workers and first responders heading home after a long day. but now we do. we celebrated these heroes every night in cities around the world. >> that's so nice. >> reporter: for nearly eight minutes george floyd pleaded for his life. his death sparked worldwide
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protests against police brutality and systemic racism. after a press conference his daughter gianna shared a hope for us all. >> daddy changed the world. >> reporter: when the call rang out for ppe to keep our front line workers safe, americans responded with great generosity. workers at one company did something extraordinary. they moved in and quarantined in two of their manufacturing plants for nearly an entire month to get the job done. in june, a photograph captured the world's attention. during a london protest, events turned violent. one man, a white former police officer, warrantndered into thed and started to get beat up. a black lives matter protester saw he was imperilled and carried him to safety. in florence, people sang the
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italian national anthem. in chicago, people countered the sorrow with "living on a prayer." and a broadway legend, brian stokes mitchell, serenaded us with "the impossible dream" from his balcony. all over the world we found a way to lift each other up and connect through the power of music. and this summer, millions of people worldwide were willing to risk their lives amid the pandemic by stepping out and stepping up to protest systemic racism. the call for justice, equality, inspiring a movement of all ages, races, religions, and creeds. we're celebrating heroes and you can help. vote for this year's most inspiring moments at cnnheroes.com. your choices will be presented one month from today, sunday, september 13, 8:00 p.m. eastern,
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an all star tribute hosted maine and special co-host kelly ripa. i want to hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> hard times make strong people and it makes strong people to make good times. hopefully all this cataclysm will somehow lead us to take one another to a better place but that remains to be seen. have a good weekend, my brother. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." it is over, again. georgia is a vital flip for democrats. they're dreaming of a senate majority. that will take winning two runoffs in georgia in january. chances are iffy but for biden this is a big flip. he also flipped arizona last night. that gives president-elect joe biden 306 electoral votes. that's the same number trump had in 2016. remember what trump said about thar