young man's life and he should not be mothered now. he needs to be around men. follow men who have followed the path, they've figured it out. >> you can catch back-to-back episodes of "this is life" tomorrow night at 9:00 and 10:00. good evening to you. you're live in the cnn newsroom. i'm jessica danny in washington. it's now been 25 days since the election and more than 30 court losses for the trump legal team and their allies and their efforts to overturn the results. just a short time ago, the latest defeat came from the pennsylvania supreme court which unanimously ruled to toss the gop lawsuit aiming to invalidate votes. as president trump tweets out more baseless allegations, republicans are worried these

wild claims might backfire. in georgia, two runoffs will determine control of the senate. they're trying to convince republicans to still have faith in the system and turn out and vote even as trump baselessly insists the system is rigged. with the president focussing on a futile election battle, americans are desperate for leadership. the coronavirus are at staggering levels. a record of more than 91,000 people hospitalized with covid-19. today also marks the 26 theth straight day the u.s. has reported at least 100,000 new covid cases. we start tonight in washington with cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond. jeremy, even as these cases and hospitalizations are surging and his only focus right now seems

to be this dubious legal battle to overturn the election. >> that's right. it's been his single minded focus over the last three weeks and cnn and every other news organization called this presidential election for joe biden. the president's continuing to make baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud, insisting that this election was stolen from him, although all evidence points in the other direction, that joe biden was legitimately elected as the next president of the united states and not a small margin, either. case after case was brought forth by the president and being thrown out of courts. the latest defeat in the state of pennsylvania. the supreme court ruling against the allies this evening. yesterday we saw the latest blow

against the president to have millions of votes thrown out essentially. happened by a trump appointed judge. this is judge sta fannos bibos. he wrote this. calling an election unfair does not make it so. charges require specific allegations and then proof. we have neither here. the campaign's claims have no merit. and the president's campaign is also coming up short as it relates to recounts. the president's campaign paid $3 million to have a recount conducted until two counties in wisconsin. milwaukee county one of those two certified their numbers. jiefd came up ahead with a net gain of 132 votes in a county he

had already overwhelmingly won in the 20 o 21 election. how long does the president keep up this attempt to overturn the election and delegitimate highs president-elect joe biden. in that federal case in the state of pennsylvania, the president faces the prospect that the conservative majority supreme court with three justices appointed by the president of the united states could add to all of this evidence that this election was not fraud leapt and push back once again on the president's meritless claims about voter fraud. one to keep in mind, december 14th. that is when the electoral college is expected to vote formally for the next president of the united states, locking in president-elect joe biden's victory. that is the point of no return. >> thanks so much. as noted it seems as though the

trump campaign cannot win. on friday they suffered a employee in a pennsylvania courtroom. a federal appeals court didn't just deny them the chance to refile a lawsuit in pennsylvania, the court actually bashed them. you heard jeremy talking about it. a judge appointed by the president didn't mince words. charges require specific allegations and then proof. we have neither here. then earlier tonight another loss in the push to overturn the election. the pennsylvania supreme court dismissing a lawsuit from congressman mike kelly and other republicans. i'm joined by john fedderman. lieutenant governor thanks for being with us. i take it you're not surprised by these court decisions. >> no, not at all. i mean, if the trump campaign doesn't stop losing, the cleveland browns are going to

sue him for trademark here. >> are you at all saying they appeal this case? >> i hope they do. they're going to get their clock cleaned there the way they did in pennsylvania. all the snake handling at the ramada they had the other day didn't change this outcome. no matter they do it's not going to change the outcomes. there was two cases and they both involved voters trying to vote for the president. no matter what they try and what they do, we know how this movie's going to end. >> some republicans in your state want the certification withdrawn and vacated. what do you say to that? >> oh, no! yeah. the resolution. yes. yeah. the limit is 25, 26 senators and 25 -- that's not going anywhere,

either. that's what i'm saying. they should stick to the snake handling at the ramada. joe biden is going to -- he's going to be the next president. these lies that are only meant to destroy and damage the american franchise have been rejected time and time again and no matter what they try and pull, it's not going to end any different. >> and you've tweeted a number of times saying that if the votes aren't certified by monday, there will also be no members of the state house. half the state senate won't be in office. >> sure. >> explain a about the point you're making there. >> the legislative term ex spiers on november 30th. they were in a bind where they were trying to have this resolution that would allow them to pick their own electors and then they also had this lawsuit that got dismissed last night by the supreme court that wouldn't allow them to certify their

results. it expires on november 30 oth. half our senate's gone, too. they don't know which end to come at it. it has accidentally fallen apart. all that's left is this sad carnival barking in an amway convention in a ballroom and this echo chamber and it doesn't go anywhere outside that. >> have you talked to any of your republican colleagues there in pennsylvania who maybe in part of the lawsuits or any of this just to get their thinking? >> sure. >> do you have any idea -- >> i've talked to republican friends. and i empathize. again, they have to pander to the lunatic snake handler faction of that party. i understand that. this president is going to be active -- he is actively

punishing members of his party publicly who don't tow that line. when they're actually forced to produce evidence of fraud, they side step it and talk about how they have a sworn affidavit from someone who heard cousin's girlfriend's at work read something on facebook kind of argument which gets shredded in every courtroom that they're dumb enough to step into. >> well, i have to ask you this before i let you go. on another note. the election is behind us. here we go looking forward to election day in 2022. pat toomey is not running for re-election. are you considering it? >> there's a couple of lanes open but right now we want to bring pennsylvania home for joe biden and put this behind us and i welcome the continued

interventions of my gop colleagues because it just -- you know, we've got to follow it till it ends. i know how this movie's going to end, they know how this movie's going to end, and up just -- >> yeah. so considering -- considering that senate seat, anything that's going to push you over the edge? >> just wherever i can make the most impact, the most contribution and, you know, it's been a real crazy mad season here and the truth is real. the guardrails held. nothing to be discouraged about that. i'm looking forward to attacking the coronavirus. because it's the real enemy. the president for the last four years, the idea that the other side is the enemy when this virus that's taken over a quarter million of our fellow citizens' lives, that's a

quarter of a million empty chairs this past thanksgiving and what's being done for it? we need that change in leadership and this spectacle that they're trying thov in my state and wrels elsewhere, it's not going to change anything. >> thanks so much. >> thank you for having me. >> yeah. more than 10 million residents of los angeles will soon be under strict stay at home orders as new cases, hospitalizations and deaths surge there. now a massive new testing campaign is here. that's next. pokes. gnocchis. raviolis. and them smokeys. curry. fried turkey. cacciatori. chimichurri. berry. mcflurry. half stack. taco pack. lobster mac.

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until just a few days before christmas. exceptions are religious services and protests. the county health director said this afternoon covid is surging among health care workers, especially nurses. this is a massive free testing site in l.a. where an oskar winner is helping. what can you tell us? >> well, sean penn wore best be actor for mystic river and mill. he is running core along with his partner, anne lee, and they have tested mor than three million people across the country, much of it done in los angeles. this is the best administration campus. about 4,000 cars came through here. dodger stadium gets a lot of attention but this is a vibrant and active test site. sean penn wants to remind

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a meeting on tuesday could decide when you get the advantage seen that could end this pandemic. the cdc has called an emergency american league of it's advisory

committee. dr. william schaffner is a doctor at vanderbilt medical center. he's a liaison representative. thanks for being with us. tell us a little bit about how you make a decision like that. who is going to get the advantage seep first with obviously so much depending on it? >> well, jessica, it's been a very long discussion. it's gone back several months, committee meeting weekly. it's done a lot of focus groups with people amped the country, consultations with professionals, and we also have medical ethicists at the meeting. i think they'll decide, as have other groups, that health care providers out there taking care of patients with covid, of who might have covid, ought to be first in line. that includes people who work in long-term care facilities, nursing homes, along with the residents of those nursing

homes. that's my prediction about what they'll decide who should be there first. >> we'll make sure everyone knows, you are liaison so you're able to advise but you're not technically making a vote, right? >> only the formal members of the advisory committee vote. >> got it. everyone knows, as you said, that public health care workers are priorities. what about teachers? aside for the need for students to be in school, a lot of parents are in a bind with their children at home. what do you think about teachers and school? >> well, the next group are what are called essential workers. i think that that's what they'll decide. they talked about that last week. mopping those essential workers are of course everyone who works in schools. that would be a very savvy move, i think, because first of all,

it would relieve a lot of patients. second of all, it would permit those parents to go to work and it would be good for the kids, also. i suspect that evan who works in a school, whether you're a teacher, administer, jappe toerl, staff, folks who work in the cafeteria, i think they will come close after that. >> and president-elect joe biden will be the oldest president in our history, 78 years old. should he be the first to get the vaccine? would you advise him to do that? >> he might be an exception to the rule, because people age 65 and older would come later. but he's the president of the united states. we certainly wouldn't want him to get sick, seriously sick, so i'm happy to have him vaccinated just as quickly as possible along with other senior governmental officials. we need the stability in our government. >> and a lot of people out there

watching tonight maybe don't fall into any of these buckets you've been talking about but of course they're still concerned when they'll be able to get the vaccine, maybe when their children will be able to get the vaccine. what do you know about that? >> we're trying to vaccinate 330 million people. we can't do that in a week and a half. the other folks who don't have underlying illnesses, they'll be later in line. that will probably be in the spring. trials are just now starting in children, so this first wave of vaccinations will be in people age 18 and older, adults. >> got it. and do you have any reservations about taking a vaccine that hasn't been fully approved by the fda with the emergency use authorization? do you think there's any reason for pause there? >> well, i think we'll see all the data on december 10th when the advisory group to the fda

meets and at that time we'll see all the information. i am going to be very confident that that's going to be very solid and i think we can be confident in telling people this is safe and effective and we can give them reassurance as well as information that they can be vaccinated and we particularly want to reach people of a minority persuasion, shall we say, because those have been disproportionately struck by covid. we want to mike sure that everybody has the information so that they can make good decisions. >> thank you dr. schaffner. have a great night. an nfl team facing the prospect of playing a game with h no fullbacks? that's ahead. clourp

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cnn. the denver broncos could play the new orleans saints tomorrow with no available quarterbacks for that became. they decided the q.b.s are ineligible due to contact and contact tracing. espn analyst mike golic joins us now. what are you hearing from around the league? this is crazy not having the quarterback to play a football game. >> it definitely is. we're in a weird year as it is and we knew we were going to have to adjust to situations when they came up, and this is one of those situations where a quarter driscoll tested positive. the other quarterbacks around him had no masks on. so with the contact tracing, you have to put them aside. royce freeman a substitute and kendall hinton who was a quarterback at college but there's no more breaks in the

schedule to try to reschedule it. and they said they're not going to forfeit. the guys want to play, especially the guys on the other team, so you're left with a very weird situation. >> this is basically the scenario the nfl has been dreading, right? where they face this impossible kind of situation. >> it absolutely is. they're trying to be ready in case teams can't play, like denver didn't want to forfeit this game but other teams may not be able to play games and if they get that far, they may go by winning percentage. they may have the ability to push the season some if this gets even more intrusive on the season but at this point, no more breaks for the denver broncos or forfeit. >> we also learned because of new restrictions in santa clara county in california, the 49ers may not have a place to play in

the next three weeks. did the nfl prepare for a situation like that? >> well, i mean, you just wonder when you were making all your plans. you try and prepare for every scenario. early on there were places around the country that were closed, so teams thought that they would have to be ready to practice somewhere else. i'm sure that's what they'll try to do. out of state where they can practice, what they do at the game times, i don't know. because they have two home games december 7 and 13. those obviously have to move. they'll be able to find another facility to work out, i'm sure. >> do you think at some appointed roger goodell pulls the plug on this? we had record hospitalizations announced today. cases are surging. what do you think -- >> there's -- >> going forward.

>> college football had their 100th postponement or cancellation, a hundred games. we've seen some disruption obviously in the nfl as well, and it's only growing. there has to be a pull the plug point. i don't think they're there yet. like i said, they can push for weeks in the playoffs and even the super bowl if they have to, so it would really be a last ditch forecast say we're pulling the plug on the season. >> it just reinforces covid touches everything doesn't it, mike golic. >> yes. >> thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. >> you got it. >> let's talk to dr. abdul el sea ed. >> jessica, let's zoom out for a second. football's a great sport. people really enjoy it. it's a small semblance of

normalcy that people can have in their day-to-day lives. we just physically distanced. there are schools and colleges closing all over the place. there are nurses and doctors and hospital professionals trying to take care of patients with minimal ppe. it reminds us that as a society, we have to make decisions about what is critical to us and what may not be. that's number one. the second part here is no matter who you are, if you're a quarterback for the broncos or you're just going to buy a gallon of milk, you got to wear a mask. we've got to remind ourselves that covid does touch everything and this is a critical moment where all of us have to come together, do the things that we need to do, keep ourselves healthy and safe. >> if you were in the nfl right now, what would you be telling

them. >> you need to decide what your cut-off point is. what is the circumstance where it's no longer worth potentially putting coaches and players and players' families and other folks who support the game at risk. when is it that we call quits? what are the ways we can make sure we're keeping everyone safe in the interim and all of our person el know how critical it is to wear a mask. look, this is something that in the pastime of american culture, football's important, sports are important. but at the same time it matters that you're setting an important example for children. they look up to athletes. they have a lot of responsibility to walking the walk when it comes to keeping people safe. this might be the time to sign colin kaepernick. he's looking for a team. >> do you think there should be

a difference in how pro and college football is handled? there's not been a streamlined guidelines in a lot of places, this being just one of them. college students aren't being paid to play, of course. these athletes are. do you think there should be more streamlined guidance for these sporting events? >> i'm a huge college football fan. i'm literally coming to you from ann arbor did michigan wol wolverin wolverines. whether it's the usual wear and tear of a football team or it's in the middle of a covid-19 pandemic. i think there's an added responsibility on the part of the ncaa and all the constituent conferences to think about what those risks are and be more careful. all of these institutions have a responsibility in the broader social fabric in a home where we

as a society are suffering a panel democratic that has taken over 250,000 lives. in a moment we're recognizing the impact of this in our day-to-day lives. if you are the kind of institution that small children and families look up who people look up to for guidance, it's important to think about the example you're setting and what you're telling folks about what is safe and what is not safe. >> we had so much guidance about being apart. but people were together. there is an expected surge between now and the christmas holiday. do you think as things potentially get worse than they are now in terms of covid cases will there be a super bowl or does it get to the point where the cases spike so much that it's nearly impossible? >> you know, it really is. it's too hard to say right now. i do think that there's a lot they can and should do

considering the skyrocketing in the surge in cases. i don't know and i can't venture to guess. but i will say that right now we are in a really challenging moment when it comes to this pandemic. when they write about the history of this pandemic, it won't have been the spring surge in april and may. it will be right now and in december. to keep oirs safe we've got to wear a mask, wash our hands, stay physically distant. that's what saves lives. >> thank you doctor for being with us. >> thank you. >> all eyes on georgia, where two runoff races will decide which party controls the senate. now president trump says he's headed to the state to campaign for the republican candidates. how is this impacting the race?

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president trump's repeated false claims of election fraud are creating a new and growing crisis for the gop. one of the head of the rnc's permanently trying to stop. ryan nobels is there. their vote is still worth something. ryan? >> reporter: yeah. jessica. it was certainly an awkward moment for the gop chairwoman. she came here with the goal of encouraging republicans to get out and vote. after chef gave her remarks, she

spent about 20 minutes getting peppered by trump supporters demanding to know why she wouldn't doing more to help trump overturn the results of the election, particularly here in georgia. take a look to a bit of that exchange. >> when it's already decided? >> it's not decided. this is the key. it's not decided. if you lose your faith and you don't vote and you walk away, that will decide it. we have to work hard. trust us, we're looking at every legal avenue. >> people are losing their -- >> this is crucial for republicans. they need trump supporters to remain engaged in this runoff. it is really their only opportunity to control at least one bastion of power in washington. if they win just one of these races, the republicans will remain majority of the united states senate. as you can tell, there is just a lot of angst amongst them.

at one point during this event this morning, someone in the crowd yelled out that kemp is a crook, craybrian kemp. republicans believe that at the end of the day these supporters will come around, they'll come home and cast their ballots for the republican candidates on january 5th runoffs have traditionally tended to lean republican but the demographics have changed quite a bit. the margins are expected to be close. losing even a percentage of those voters, they may not be able to pull it off. jessica? >> ryan nobels for us in georgia this saturday night. i'd like to bring in ron bro brownstein. good evening to you. thanks for being with us. >> yes. >> the democrats, we just heard from ryan talking about the gop.

the democrats don't have anything to relax about, either. jon ossoff had about a hundred thousand fewer votes than joe biden. he underperformed joe biden in the general election. his rival, senator purdue, running about even. is it possible that he could deliver a win that saves the senate for republicans? >> look. georgia is an embodiment of the problem democrats face in georgia. they haven't had a democrat since 2014. the fact is that even though democrats have won in seven ought of eight elections. it's become harder and harder for either side to elect senators in states that usually vote the other way for president. in the 25 states that voted for trump both times, republicans

now 47 of the 57 seats. democrats have 39 out of the ho. this of course is neither fish nor fowl. it moved away from him this time. there's no doubt he would be valuable in stabilizing the base but there's the risk of polarizing the suburbs that voted against him in november. >> kelly loeffler is taking on warnock in that run off in the other race. when you add the votes that she got compared to warnock and the other top democrats, the gop holds an advantage there as well. >> exactly. >> go ahead. >> it's challenging for democrats. there's no question os office particular ran behind biden in the key atlanta metro. fulton, cobb, and gwinnett, the giant suburbs who have moved so dramatically.

ossoff was clearly there were some voters who voted against trump at the top of the ticket but were more comfortable with republicans down ballot. that the challenge democrats face in georgia. and their best chance is to narrow this as much as they can. they don't really want a broad debate on whether you want the democratic agenda broadly defined a advanced. i think they really have shown they want it focused on covid, covid relief and the idea that washington is not going to be able to respond to both the health and economic needs if you have a mitch mcconnell senate. >> so you've outlined the messaging that you think democrats need to adhere to if they want to be successful. in terms of sending down barack obama or president-elect biden, sending in those big names, does something like that make a difference do you think for them, like president trump going in for the republicans? >> well, it's a closer call, right? because on the one hand, democrats i think don't want a nationalize this in the sense of having it become a referendum on

the broad democratic agenda. it's not clear there is a winning majority for that in georgia. but on balance, joe biden has already said at one of his press conferences he will go down. certainly barack obama would be an asset. in the past, the big problem democrats have had in the other runoffs in georgia have been the african american turnout really plummeted between november and the runoff where there was fowler or the race with saxbe chambliss. having obama in there would keep warnock. this is likely going to be very close, but it's a reflection of the underlying geographic problem the democrats have that even though they win the most votes consistently now at the presidential level, there are probably still more states that lean slightly republican. and as the senate elections become more parliamentary, they are threading the needle to get to a majority. >> uh-huh, uh-huh. it's interesting. paul ryan said that if the republicans win both seats in the senate that that is actually going to be in his view better for bipartisanship. it's going to force biden to

work across the aisle, something that biden has said he really wants to do anyway. do you think that's right? and do you think if that's the case, this republican senate treats a president biden different than they did -- differently than they did president obama, when they really didn't allow anything to go through? >> has mitch mcconnell stepped down between november and january? in an ideal world, what he is saying would have some, you know, resonance, but the fact is i think a mcconnell senate would systematically block what biden is trying to do. and you can look at what's happening in the post election period, how few republican senators and conspicuous the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell himself has stepped into pushback against trump's baseless claims of fraud. if you read the atlanta journal constitution today is leading to a proliferation of death threats against the republican secretary of state an his wife. and they are all standing aside and letting that happen, both

because they fear trump, but also because mcconnell believes it will hurt biden. it will get him less leverage of republican senator, and they are perfectly willing. >> yeah. ron brownstein, thank you so much. you laid it all out there for us. we sure do appreciate it. have a great saturday night. >> thanks for having me. thousands of protesters clashed with police on the streets of france today, outraged at a proposed new security law that has re-ignited a debate over police brutality in that nation. cnn's melissa bell joins us from paris with more on this controversial bill. >> this is a protest against the global security bill that's currently before the french parliament. already had attracted a great deal of controversy as it went before the national assembly because essentially one of its provisions would make it a punishable offense to publish pictures of policemen with the intent to cause them harm. that was already the subject of a great deal of controversy. then this week two separate investigations open into allegations of police brutality

have further fed the anger that led to the crowds here today. the bill so far has passed the national assembly. should it be before the senate in december. cnn, paris. >> thank you, melissa. up ahead, taking the field and changing the game. today history was made as the first woman in college football played in a power five game. that story is up next. here's andy listening to my goals and making plans. this is us talking tax-smart investing, managing risk, and all the ways schwab can help me invest. this is andy reminding me how i can keep my investing costs low and that there's no fee to work with him. here's me learning about schwab's satisfaction guarantee. accountability, i like it. so, yeah. andy and i made a good plan. find your own andy at schwab. a modern approach to wealth management.

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finally tonight, an incredible moment for sports in what has been an unforgettable year in so many ways. vanderbilt university's sarah fuller making history as the first woman to play in a power five football game. the power five is a collection of the strongest conferences in college football. fuller made history when she entered the game and kicked off to open the second half. she had a message for the girls and women who may follow in her footsteps. with a sticker othe back of her helmet that read "play like a girl." >> honestly, it's just so exciting. and the fact that i can represent, like the little girls out there who wanted to do this or thought about playing football or any sport, really. and it encourages them to step up and do something big like this. it's awesome. i just want to tell all the girls out there that you can do anything you set your mind to. you really can. if you have that mentality all the way through, you can do big things. >> yes, you can.

fuller is also a goalkeeper for vanderbilt's conference champion soccer team. she got her shot at football after several players were ruled out due to covid-19 contact tracing. i'm jessica dean in washington. i'll be back tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. eastern. up next, the cnn special report "fight for the white house: joe biden's long journey." have a wonderful night. we'll see you tomorrow. the following is a cnn special report. highways gone from a young politician with swagger. >> they said we think you should run for the senate. i said i'm not old enough. >> to a young father suffering great loss. >> my brother looked at me and said, she's dead, isn't she? >> about a irishman with a story that reads like a greek tragedy. >> how can you experience the worst thing imaginable twice in