donald trump's legal avenues for overturning his election loss are closing. georgia still has to could want the votes again. and the holiday travel season is on. even as the u.s. hits a new milestone of 12 million co-vid cases. live from atlanta welcome to our viewers in the united states, canada, and around the world. this is "cnn newsroom."

the state of georgia once again finds itself at the center of u.s. politics. it's already the site of two runoff elections that will determine the control of the senate. one is complicated by the coronavirus. georgia is preparing for a recount in the presidential race. the trump campaign requested a second recount after an earlier audit found joe biden won the state by more than 12,000 votes. joe biden claims trump is setting himself up to lose the state again. last week's recount reaffirmed georgia voters selected joe biden to be president. any further recount will simply reaffirm joe biden's victory in georgia a third time. on saturday a federal judge in pennsylvania tossed out a case

for having no legal merits. we'll have more on that in a moment. in georgia's senate runoff campaign republican senator kelly loeffler announced she tested positive for covid-19 on friday. but another test on saturday was inconclusi inconclusive. she campaigned maskless on friday alongside mike pence, and david perdue. all right, back to pennsylvania where u.s. senator pat toomey joins a short list of republican who is have recognized biden as president-elect. soon after the judge's ruling on the trump campaign's lawsuit in pennsylvania, toomey said in a statement with today's decision by a long time conservative republican who i know to be and fair, president trump has exhausted all legal options to challenge the results of the presidential race in pennsylvania. we have more details from jeremy diamond. >> reporter: president trump is suffering his latest defeat in his attempts to overturn the

results of the 2020 election. this time it came in an opinion from a federal judge in the battle ground state of pennsylvania. judge matthew brand throwing out the trump campaign's attempts to prevent the state of pennsylvania from certifying the results of the election and joe biden's victory in that state. the judge matthew brand making very clear that the trump campaign's arguments here are entirely unsupported, especially when they are seeking to essentially throw out the nearly 7 million votes cast in the state of pennsylvania. the judge writes one might expect when seeking such a startling outcome a plaintiff would come armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of corruption. that has not happened. instead this court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations unpled in the complaint and unsupported by the evidence and much of that judge's opinion which came out saturday night reads similarly, a scathing opinion, and notable

because the president's attorney, rudy giuliani went into federal court a few days ago to make that case himself after five previous attorneys withdraw from the trump campaign's lawsuit here. now, as the president's legal avenues are slimming, and they are. this was the 29th case the trump case has withdrawn or seen dismissed in state and federal courts over the last two weeks. as that is happening, you're seeing the president uninterested in the business of governing and being president of the united states. even as he's fighting to remain president of the united states. he's had only a handful of public appearances in the more than two weeks since the presidential election and on saturday the president briefly appeared at one meeting for the g-20 summit of world leaders appearing virtually as most world leaders are. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. the trump white house is still denying president-elect joe biden and his team access to critical resources and briefings. but biden is staying calm and

moving forward. we get more from. >> reporter: president-elect joe biden's team welcomed dismissing the trump campaign's lawsuit in pennsylvania as the biden team arguments it backs up their argument that there are no legal challenges that the president can credibly wage to change the results of the election. a spokesperson for joe biden saying yet another court has rejected trump and giuliani's baseless claims of voter fraud and their appalling assault on our democracy. the judge's ruling couldn't be clearer. our people, laws and institutions demand more. and our country will not tolerate trump's attempts to reverse the results of an election that he decisively lost. biden's team has long argued that the lawsuits and legal challenges from the president are simply political theater and they don't believe that anything credible can actually be raised to change the outcome of the

election. but they have warned that these type of challenges are threatening to american democracy, but they ultimately believe that this election is over and the results will stand. now, biden is pushing forward with his transition even as the gsa has yet to ascertain him as the president-elect. biden has been convening his own teams of experts and also holding briefings with people as they are gathering more information about how to proceed heading into january. and biden is also building out not just his white house staff but also looking at his cabinet decisions. and the president-elect has sped up his timeline for announcing his first cabinet picks with a possibility of the first nominees coming at the start of the week. articlette signs, cnn, wilmington, delaware. for more on this politics, let's bring in a teacher from international politics at city university london, a visiting

professor at london economics and politics school. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. happy to be here. >> you've written what's happening now is a dangerous coup by a master of mass disorientation. what's more surprising. the attempt at the coup or the mass disorientation seems to be working if you judge by the support by republicans and followers? >> i think both are dangerous. they portend a continuation of the politics of mass disorientation. i think when the build pup of public opinion which is so loyal to the president as they are in this case with the republican party, voters, i think it's going to royal politics going forward, but it also sets a dangerous precedent for anyone in future elections, especially if they're close. because it will say well, we can just kind of draw out the

process. we can make legal challenges and so on, undermine the very idea of the popular vote. in this case, i suppose you could say it's very dangerous because the overwhelming sort of vote and the certifications and so on that have happened and the elections called are against president trump. but the fact that you can challenge it in these conditions suggests in future terms if it's closer, it's going to get worse. that means there's a sharp authoritarian turn in american politics once you've had a president of this kind, and it could undermine democracy even more fundamentally. >> you say american democracy, but obviously keenly watching all of this are foreign leaders and other democracies and maybe not -- maybe even those who haven't yet been elected but waiting in the wings watching all this. what do you think they're learning about the fragility of

political norms, about the weaponization of outrage and the subversion of democracy? i mean, can you export this? could we see similar leaders and similar scenes playing out in other previously stable democracies in the coming years? >> well, the united states is a pivotal global power. it's the lead power in the whole world system in all kinds of respects that you've mentioned as well. it also has kind of an image and an aura. it has fundamental democratic norms and institutions as well. so the signals that come from the united states in a variety of areas, including on a democratic processes, they have a big impact. they actually encourage certain kinds of tendencies, certain kinds of forces. when a president of the united states like president trump has been backing say white supremacists, authoritarians, praising autocratic leaders and praising the violation of norms, challenging freed media freedom. not calling out when journalists

are being attacked and maybe even killed. calling the media in the u.s. the enemies of the people, that as a big effect. it sends a signal. and overall, it undermines the notion of democracy. you will have a big effect. i'm not saying there should be another side pointed out. one of the things that is interesting to me and impressive, perhaps, is that the courts have stood up to these challenges up to now. but the pennsylvania judge, for example, called it a massive attempt of disenfranchisement. that will have reverberations. it suggests the u.s. has deep structures which will also prevent some of this kind of tendency as well. and, of course, we know that county officials whose only job is to count and verify elections, they have also stood up to the president and have not been intimidated by him. and many gop leaders at state

level have called him out. there has been a kind of general tendency against this. i think that's important to bear in mind as well. >> there has been at least a bit of a bull work against some of this. we don't have much time left, but i want to ask, foreign policy, the president's final days seem to alternate between a scorched earth policy to make things harder for the president-elect and playing golf. looking at his -- the moves that he's making now, what do you think the landscape will be left for president biden when he's sworn in? >> like everything else, president trump is a campaigner. and he's already campaigning now for the 2022 midterms on behalf of the republican party. and i suspect 2024 for himself or someone like him to run in that year. what he's trying to do, i think is effectively push ahead in a

number of areas such as troop withdrawal in afghanistan, designating certain sanctions in iran in regard to the nuclear agreement and ballistic missiles. i think what he's trying to say is look, my supporters, my voters, i have done what i said i would do. and the democrats are going to have to sort of politically have a much more difficult time in reversing these things. they can. a lot of them are executive order decisions and foreign policy is much more in the gift of the president than is domestic policy. it does suggest to his voters i'm doing what i said i would do, and we're leaving in that sort of -- in that cast of mind, and look at the democrats. they are making america much, much weaker. and i think that's the politics of this. fundamentally, i don't think there's many changes trump is making or suggesting which necessarily undermine what the end goal of american foreign policy, what democrats and

republicans is. but i think he's trying to muddy the water and play politics for 2022 and 2024. >> thank you. we always appreciate it. >> thank you very much. home for the holidays, despite coronavirus. just ahead why health experts are afraid the recent surge in u.s. cases could be just the beginning. plus we'll show you how governments around the world are bracing for the co-vid fallout from the holiday season travel. a blast of immune support that's more than just vitamin c. it's a unique crafted blend of vitamins, zinc, other minerals, and herbs. take on your day with airborne. your daily dose of confidence.

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the u.s. has reached another co-vid milestone. topping 12 million coronavirus cases. upcoming thanksgiving travel could spread the virus further. experts are pleading for americans to stay home, but the tsa screened more than 1 million passengers at u.s. airports on friday. and the airlines say they're bracing for their biggest, busiest week since the pandemic began. we have more from new york. >> reporter: on saturday researchers at johns hopkins

reported the united states has passed 12 million cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began. it's a number that continues to rise. there have been 19 straight days of more than 100,000 new cases in the country. what scares public health experts is the surge is coming at the beginning of the holiday travel season. here at jfk in new york things were quiet, but other airports across the country saw big, big crowds. like this crowd at the phoenix sky harbor airport on friday. public health experts worry those big numbers of people at the airport, people moving from one place to another and congregating before moving back to where they started from is pretty much the worse case scenario in a surging pandemic. they're begging americans to make the hard choice not to travel this holiday season. cnn, new york. as we saw, rising coronavirus cases don't seem to be enough to stop many holiday

travelers and health experts are afraid the high numbers we're seeing now will be worse. anna stewart takes a look at how governments around the world are preparing. going home for the holidays. it's what the cdc advises against this thanksgiving. crowded airports, people mingling from different households, it's a perfect way for a virus to travel, too. but the warning isn't enough to ground some passengers. >> the planes are safe. they sanitize everything. you got to live your life at the end of the day. >> reporter: in many cases the concern is saving lives as many governments reimpose restrictions and coronavirus cases reach alarming levels. on monday toronto, canada's most populous city will go on lockdown for nearly a month. outdoor gatherings limited to ten people. restaurants curb side or delivery only. even grocery stores can only operate at half capacity. the canadian prime minister

appealed for people to stay at home. >> if you're planning to see friends this weekend, maybe don't. if there was a birthday party or a gathering for dinner you were thinking about doing, don't do it. >> a similar message in iran where the deputy health minister says family gatherings are the main cause of infections. the country recently closed nonessential businesses in 160 towns and cities. some residents say people will continue to gather. >> translator: no matter how much the government imposes restrictions, people do not comply. it's useless. >> reporter: in new kdelhi, the government increased fines by 27 for those who don't wear masks. cases in brazil are on the rise passing the 6 million mark after infections steadily declined since the peak in the summer.

officials say the surge is fuelled by people out and about. in some cities, packing into public places at prepandemic levels. the russian president, vladimir putin, says he will pr vied a vaccine to countries that need it. that hope perhaps too far down the road for the wave of infections sweeping the world right now. cnn, london. the french president is set to address the nation on tuesday and may announce a partial relaxation of nationwide restrictions. for more on that and other coronavirus news across europe, i'm joined by jim bitterman. with hospitalizations coming down this week in france, i assume that's one of the data points the french government is looking at as they decide whether to ease restrictions? >> that's right, kim. the other data point is the number of people in icus and, in fact, over the last week, the

number here has dropped, the number of icu beds devoted to coronavirus cases has dropped by about 350. around 7% or 8 % of the total icu load. so, in fact, those kind of indicators are what led the prime minister here to say on friday that france is on the right path. nonetheless, we'll have to see what president macron does. the government spokesman has said it's not going to be the end of the restriction when the president makes his speech. it's going to come off gradually, perhaps letting shopkeepers and stores open their shops for nonessential things. for essential things they have been open. but having a limit on the number of people who can be in any particular space at any particular time. so we'll see what the president announces. it might also be a lifting on religious institutions, mosques and churches and what not so

they can go back to having services as they have in the past with proper spacing, of course. now, that having been said about france, germany, on the other hand, which put in tough restrictions at the beginning of this month, in fact, their situation has stabilized. they're really worried now about the number of people in their icu beds. they had an increase over the last two months of 13 times the number of people being treated with coronavirus in the icu beds. they're worried about the system collapsing but the spokesman for chancellor merkel said on friday that we've not yet managed to bring the numbers back to a low level. we've basically only managed to get past the first steps so far to stop the strong, steep, and exponential increase in infections. in fact, it's leveling off in europe. however, things are still not completely there to let

restrictions go completely. >> all right. thank you so much. jim bitterman. appreciate it. dr. robert kim farley joins me from los angeles, a professor at the fielding school of public health. i want to ask you about pandemic fatigue. you can see it in the number of americans who are traveling or planning to travel over this thanksgiving holiday. we've seen pictures of crowded airports and it doesn't look safe if we're looking at pictures now, over phenomen-- e people are wearing masks, they're sharing space in locations. clearly people aren't listening to guidance telling them not to get together. are we standing at another precipice? >> i think we are. associated with with thanksgiving, the travel as you pointed out, as well as the people having persons in their homes. or going out and having larger numbers together. all of these things don't bode

well for us to have decreased number of cases but rath yerks increasing. i think also as you rightly point out, the crowded areas oft times for travel is in the security lines, things like this. it's not necessarily on the plane itself which have very good air filtration and quick turn arounds of air in the space. they have the flow of the air, this directed such that it's not just spreading all over the cabin. actually, probably the actually getting to the airport is of more concern than the flight itself. >> we have to hang in there until the vaccine is available. experts have been drawing that distinct, a vaccine is one thing. vaccinations, quite another. you supervised l.a. county's immunization program. what is the key to a successful rollout, and if we agree that health care workers should get it first, who gets it next? how do you decide?

>> yes. so i think firstly, as you point out, we need to realize that is coming. there is a light at the end of this tunnel. so that pandemic fatigue, if everybody could double down and hang in there, keeping masking and physical distancing, this vaccine will be coming. yoz it's limited at the beginning. we're hoping with both pfizer and soon to be moderna, asking for emergency use authorization, we'll probably have some 40 million doses by the end of this year. but it's a two-dose schedule. that means about 20 million people. first choice up for priority is going to be our health care workers on the front lines. that will, in fact, use up a lot of the vaccine. probably next in line will be our workers as well as patients in nursing homes. the oft times are elderly, have medical conditions. thirdly are those that are more elderly, over 65, have multiple

medical conditions or underlying conditions that make them more susceptible than essential workers like teachers that have to be there. also in larger numbers of people together, essential workers. and then finally it will be for the rest of us, but i think that may be not until april or may or june. even july before we actually have all the vaccine that would be needed to vaccinate the entire population. >> until then, follow the guidance, don't gather, wear a mask. >> exactly. >> thank you so much, dr. robert kim farley. we appreciate you coming on. >> kim, it's a pleasure as always. see you later. co-vid numbers are rising in iowa. when we come back, the strain on doctors, nurses, and their vulnerable patients. a health care system pushed to the limits. stay with us.

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welcome back to you our viewers in the united states, canada, and around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." we want to recap our top story with time run running out on the trump presidency, his campaign wants a second ballot recount in georgia. the republican-led state is granting the request, but it's certified results showing joe biden as the winner. everies to block a biden win have hit a block in pennsylvania. a judge said it wasn't in the court's power to violate the constitution. the president had a virtual g-20 summit on saturday, but on

twitter he remained fixated on baseless claims of a stolen election. adam schiff had this to say. >> you know, he certainly is abusing once again the power of his office. this too is a long pattern of the presidency for any other president it would be unthinkable that after losing an election, they would be calling state legislators and trying to get them to overputurn the results, ignore the popular result, or they would have their deputies like lindsey graham calling secretaries of state in places like georgia and asking whether they're in a position to effectively throw out thousands of ballots. but that's the kind of abuse of power we've come to expect from donald trump. you know, i would imagine there's anything at this late stage that can be done about that. it will not be successful, but it is delaying the transition at

great cost. >> on top of the g-20 in tweets, mr. trump found time for golf saturday. this as the u.s. raced past 12 million known cases of covid-19. well, schiff had this response. >> it's shameful. you think about however long donald trump was on the golf course, calculate the number of americans who died while he was out there driving from the tee and chipping on to the green. there were americans dying all the time. we're losing americans 1,000 to the 2,000 a day. that's hundreds while he's on the golf course. >> that was house democrat adam schiff. johns hopkins university reports more than 14 00 people died from covid-19 in the u.s. on saturday. iowa has implemented a mask mandate after initially resisting calls for tougher restrictions. since the start of the month hospitalizations in the state have more than doubled.

cnn life-supporreports health c are being pushed past their limits. >> reporter: butch hansen, 84 years old, diagnosed with covid-19 last week. >> we're going to get a cat scan of your chest. you've got some junk in your chest. you probably have a little pneumonia. i want to make sure you don't have a blood clot in your lung. >> reporter: today he's back in the emergency room. >> why did you come in today? >> i had the phlegm last night. that's all i did. cough up that phlegm. i thought well, it's either a cold or something else. i find out what it is. >> reporter: hansen says he's been careful but may have picked it up from a family member. regional health services of howard county in iowa, the hospital, the ambulance service, the public health department and

hospice care for the entire county. they move the sickest patients to larger prompts with iowa, the midwest and the country all seeing a sharp increase in cases and patients, finding an available bed in a larger facility is not so easy these days. >> the biggest concern the last week is when we call and ask for them to help take care of our patients who are maybe sicker than we're used to taking care of, they don't have beds for us. and so that's where the strain really comes on. >> reporter: and if there's a surge with nowhere to send critically ill patients -- >> this is the in case of emergency, open this? >> pretty much. pretty much. >> how many more people could you surge up to with everything in here? >> we have the capability of adding up to 50 beds. my hope is to never have to open this trailer. >> reporter: today the entire health care system here pushed to its limits. >> what is co-vid doing to

places like howard county right now? >> reporter: it's starting to stress us out. we have limited resources. >> reporter: in the first month of the pandemic here at howard county they saw 13 coronavirus cases. over the last month, there were 411. the holidays are around the corner and the fear is it's going to get a lot worse. with thanksgiving coming up, how concerned are you with what you're going to see around christmas? >> i have a feeling it's going to be out of control. i really worry about health care in general around christmas, because if everybody gets together on thanksgiving, has all their big gatherings, within two weeks we'll start to see the outbreaks start. >> reporter: this is the problem across the country. the system is essentially filling up. there are fewer and fewer places that hospitals can send patients

to. they're facing the real possibility that at some point people may be dying in their homes, in the parking lots waiting for care. the gentleman in the story off the top, he went home. they think he will be okay. they make them tough in iowa. back to you. >> with at least two companies seeking emergency use authorization for co-vid vaccines, the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention is considering who should be inoculated first. we spoke to the chair of the cdc advisory committee on immunization practices. he favors the obvious groups first such as health care workers and the elderly, but seemed less impressed with another theory. >> a little bit out of the box, the subject of acquaintance immunization. i was unfamiliar with this until i read a piece in "wired".

put it on the screen so i can read it. to knock out the super spreaders, the ideal target for a vaccine would be someone with a big multigenerational family, a job that led to a lot of mixing with strangers and a busy social life. but how do we find the highly connected individuals across 50 states and 330 million people? this is where most public health officials get stuck. is there something to trying to identify the people who are more out and about and active among us, not necessarily health care workers? not necessarily the elderly or preexisting conditions but they're in contact with more people, so maybe they need to be elevated in priority? >> there may be some benefit in that, but we don't have a lot of data suggesting that immunizing these individuals will be helpful for the population. the individuals being identified by the national academies of

medicine, and others, we're trying to identify those individuals that are essential for keeping the health care system going, that are essential for providing health care, and identifying those populations, immunizing them that we've already identified at high risk for mortality or morbidity. our focus is on the high risk groups at this moment. >> well, creating vaccines and selecting the initial recipients aren't the only problems. another enormous challenge is transporting them. sometimes at unbelievably low temperatures. cnn's frederick pleitgen looks at how one airline looks to handle the precious cargo. >> reporter: while the world's passenger airlines face an uncertain future because of covid-19, freight airlines like this are gearing up for a huge operation to try to help end the

pandemic. in the coming months and years, airlines here face the daunting challenge of having to transport billions of doses of vaccine around the world. as a rule of thumb, they say the colder a vaccine needs to be stored, the more difficult it is to ship it. >> fazer's vaccine, for instance, needs to be stored at around minus 100 degrees fa fahrenheit requiring complicating cooling. they say their pharma logistics hubs can use special containers like these packed with dry ice. still, keeping them cold enough isn't easy. the head of the pharma hub says. >> the temperature minus 70 degrees is really a challenge, because we have to use dry ice in the bunker. we for sure need dry ice condition the compartment. we need more dry ice. we have another dry ice concentration on board the

aircraft. these are all things we have to consider. >> reporter: another issue. the dry ice emits a lot of co 2 gas. that can be dangerous for a flight crew inside the plane. so each cargo flight can only carry a limited amount of containers holding dry ice. the challenges are immense, but the airline says it's been building capacities and consulting with vaccine makers and thinks it's ready to start delivering viles as soon as they get regulatory approval. >> this is a special situation, but given what we've done with all the masks and flexibility, with all the things we had to produce and to perform in very, very short notice, our team, i believe, is ready for this challenge. >> a massive logistical challenge as the world not only waits for a vaccine to be certified, but also to be delivered fast and in large

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the u.s. state of california is adopting tough restrictions to halt the spread of covid-19. but that hasn't stopped it from smashing daily case records. cnn reports from los angeles. >> reporter: we talked about the dramatic jump in cases, this horrifying boomerang in california. in los angeles county, they're undergoing extensive covid-19 testing and tracing campaigns including here at dodger stadium. up to. 10,000 people tested friday alone. along with that, new rules in california.

they are now forbidding anyone to clurser in restaurants and bars in large groups. a curfew from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. this does not mean you can't go to the grocery store or walk the dog, maybe get gas, go to a friend's house. this aimed as younger people gathering in large groups in the late night and early morning hours. that's what it's come to in california. we're talking about lines. well, here in los angeles today, as we see these economic impacts of the pandemic raging on, long, long lines to get a box of free food. this is the unitarian church in korea town. more than 1,000 people walked up and grabbed food. many of them saying they are either out of work or their hours had been reduced so much they could not make ends meet. volunteers on the ground saying they've never seen this much

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when the 9/11 attacks happened rudy giuliani became america's mayor. now he's take an political turn that has many people scratching their heads. drew griffin on giuliani's strange journey. >> reporter: it would be laughable if this wasn't so dangerous. >> doing battles like this. >> reporter: giuliani on fox spinning his latest false conspiracy theory about an american voting machine company, a bizarre take involving george soros, votes being counted in pain and hugo chavez. >> a company that has close ties to venezuela and china. >> reporter: false, truth, facts, they don't seem to matter to giuliani, tweeting, posting on youtube, showing up on far right wing shows spewing wildly

false allegations even from the parking lot of a landscaping company next to an adult bookstore. his argument in philadelphia, that vote counters were purposely hiding ballots from trump's poll watchers. >> many of them were fraudulent. >> reporter: not true. this is the man president trump has put in charge of his legal challenges to joe biden's presidential win. a stack of lawsuits has already been thrown out or dropped including in one day. >> all the cases, all the cases are falling apart. the way he's going about continuing to file cases with no basis in court just makes donald trump a loser more times. >> reporter: in a pennsylvania lawsuit, a judge asked trump's attorney, are you claiming that there is any fraud in connection with these disputed ballots? the trump attorney admitted no. along with other trump cronies, giuliani keeps feeding the world

his debunked conspiracy theories. >> each state, there were ineligible ballots that overwhelmed the margin of victory. >> reporter: no, mr. giuliani, there weren't. the united states department of homeland security issued this joint statement from the elections infrastructure committee stating there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised. >> giuliani is undermining confidence in the american election system. and, therefore, undermining our national security. >> reporter: it's a far cry from the man who was dubbed mayor of the world in the wake of 9/11. ever since giuliani became a vocal supporter of the president's 2016 presidential bid, he's been trump's chief spear cyst, even traveling to ukraine to try to dig up dirt on hunter biden. intelligence officials told the white house, giuliani was the target of a russian influence

operation in 2019 according to "the washington post." >> it is very dangerous, and it's extremely alarming. >> reporter: former federal prosecutor ken, who specializes in russian organized crime and once worked with giuliani believes giuliani may be unwhitingly doing the russian's business in this election. >> what they're doing is completely 100% in the interest of russia which is to create as much damage and confusion to the u.s. >> reporter: and it's working. the lies and false reports sending thousands into the streets for a pro trump protest and perhaps convincing millions of americans to doubt the u.s. election system. staunch republican and former trump national security adviser john bolton says it's a damaging strategy that won't end after trump leaves office. >> real distrust in the system casting doubt on the integrity

of our electoral system, the constitutional process. the russians and the chinese couldn't ask for anymore. what trump is doing is potentially dangerous for the country. >> reporter: former colleagues of rudy giuliani question whether there has been cognitive decline. they don't know what happened to rudy giuliani. one telling me that because the president doesn't even pay his attorney, rudy giuliani seems to be destroying his reputation free of charge. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. and that wraps up this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'll be back in just a moment with more news. stay with us. we're helping change the future of heart failure.

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here in the u.s. state of georgia, apparently two counts isn't enough. the trump campaign has now asked georgia for yet another vote count hoping beyond hope that a third one will flip the state from a biden win. earlier an audit found joe biden won the usually red state by more than 12,000 votes. biden's campaign says president trump is setting himself up to lose the state again. last week's recount reaffirmed what we knew. georgia voters selected joe biden to be their next president. any further recount reaffirms the victory in georgia a third time. a federal judge in the battle ground state of pen