and say, mr. president, it's over. accept what has happened. move on. we shall see what the next steps are. we're going to have special live coverage will continue on all these historic moments unfolding right now. "erin burnett outfront" picks up our coverage. out front next, the supreme court next rejects trump's complaints. they put the president's nonsense to rest. plus, also a major decision by the fda as soon as tonight authorizing the first covid vaccine in the united states as we learn about a threat to the white house to the chief of the fda. one georgia lawmaker single happenedly debunked a trump campaign lie about voter fraud. how did she do it? she's our guest. let's go out front. good evening, i'm erin burnett. the breaking news this hour. supreme court moments ago

speaking and flat out rejecting president trump's last-ditch effort to steal the election from joe biden. the court rejecting the lawsuit from the attorney general of texas which challenged the election results in georgia, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. the state of texas's motion for leave to file a moigs of leave is denied. texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its election. all other pending motions are dismissed as moot. three lines from all justices as a group. no known discents. even after the president tried to intimidate the supreme court today tweeting, quote, if the supreme court shows great wisdom and courage, the american people will win perhaps the most important case in history and

our electoral process will be respected again. well, it is respected now after the free and fair election that we just completed, the court did show wisdom and courage in upholding that election and its results. it is the second time this week that the court has tersely rebuked a totally manufactured attempt with no basis in law to undo the free and fair election. all attempts put through by republicans to pull a coup through the courts. the suit from texas was respected by 18 other who supported it. it was supported by 126 republican house members including a late signee, kevin mccarthy. he just signed on today. all of them backing what they know to be complete bs because they want trump to approve of them and back them. they think it's going to help their career. maybe the attorney general of texas who's accused of serious

crimes wants a pardon. all of them unified in putting themselves before their country and truth. jessica schneider is out front in washington. they put this out on a friday night. they didn't mince words and they didn't waste time. what are you learning about the court's decision here and what happens next? >> reporter: erin, this is it. game over for what was a long shot lawsuit anyway. the justices tonight have spoken for the second time this week shutting down these republican efforts to stop joe biden from becoming president. so the supreme court putting it this way in this one-page order tonight. texas has no right to even file this lawsuit at the high court because texas has no right to legally challenge how another state conducts its elections. in this case, of course, texas was challenging the election procedures for four crucial battleground states. in this order two of the most conservative justices, samuel

alito and clarence thomas, they said that they did believe the supreme court should have let texas at least file the case but then these two justices said even if that had happened, they, too, would have rejected it. this is a complete rejection of the texas attorney general, ken paxton, his efforts to stop the electors in michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, georgia, stop them from voting for joe biden when they meet on monday. they cannot stop them at this point. this was a short order, just one page and just a few sentences but, erin, this is a major defeat for republicans tonight and of course it's a victory to all of the states and officials who blasted this. officials in pennsylvania, they called it a cacophony of bogus claims. they called it for see dish sdi abuse of power and the supreme court agreeing when they issued this order that capped a week of

two supreme court rejections of republican efforts. of course, erin, we have seen repeated cases where they have shut down republican efforts all over the country by state and federal judges. now we're seeing it twice in one week from the supreme court, erin. >> thank you very much, jessica. as we said, unified. kaitlyn collins is out front at the white house. caitlyn, that has got to be something the president cannot simply understand. what are you hearing? when we said this comes out from the justices as a whole, as it did earlier this week with pennsylvania, but now with this texas case, he got all the republican politicians, not all, but all of his friends to sign on, but his supreme court justices, the ones he nominated and put on there, they were on board with saying they would have none of this. >> reporter: yeah. so far since this decision has come down, it's been complete silence here from the white house and from the president's campaign. we've reached out to them to ask for their response. erin, a lot of the people who were talking about this knew

this was likely how this was going to end up. they weren't living in some different reality where they thought the supreme court could take this case, they knew it was a long shot. i heard from several republicans who put the names on the amicus brief, to join the lawsuit, they believed the supreme court would shut it down. they believed it to be a loyalty test. the president, i'm told, actually thought he had a chance of prevailing here. he kept bringing this case up all week. he talked about it at length i'm told yesterday at lunch with the republican attorneys general. the question is what does the president say about this? you are right, he has the three supreme court appointees that he made clear he wanted the latest one amy coney barrett on the court in case something like this happened because the president did predict the results of the election could wind up in the supreme court. i don't think this is the way he thought it would go. while jessica noted this was an unsigned response, there is no dissernt from any of the people that the president put on the

supreme court here. the question ultimately is they knew this is where this was going to go behind the scenes when you talk to campaign officials? what do they do next? they have been rejected by the supreme court twice in a week? how long can they keep a charade up? the campaign has said they're going to be putting out ads of stopping the steal of the vote they've been pushing at the rallies. what are they going to be telling their supporters now to convince them this election is theirs? >> kaitlyn, thank you very much. it's a nmazing when you hear of those 126 people. they assumed the supreme court would stop this. they wanted to curry favor to the president, admitting it. it's a sad true when you hear that thing. is that state senator in georgia told us he thought this was an important moment in history. he wanted to be on the side of truth and he was saying biden won georgia, those facts.

these 126 republicans not having that courage. in a moment i'm going to speak to republican governor chris sununu. biden won his state. he has been loud and clear about that. first, i want to get some legal analysis from nick ackerman. nick, my mouth getting ahead of myself. let me just ask you where we are here. two cases shot down in a week. you've got the electoral college on monday. is this really game over for the president? does he have any chance left? >> he's got zero chance left. this was supposed to be the culmination of his return to the white house. this is something he's been plotting for months. it started months ago when he basically got all of his supporters to stay away from absentee ballots. he got the legislatures in pennsylvania and michigan to ensure that votes from absentee

ballots couldn't be counted until after the election day. and then he used them, used that in his papers before the supreme court to argue that the votes that were counted after 3 a.m. on election night somehow had to be fraud, fraudulent, phony votes from dead people because they just suddenly came in. well, everybody knew where they came in. they came in from the absentee ballots that had to be counted after the election. this, he thought, would get him into the supreme court because he thinks that by appointing three people to the supreme court and having a so-called republican or conservative majority in the court, that was going to do it for him and that would keep him in because his view was he took care of them, he rubbed their backs, they're going to rub his back. the u.s. supreme court does not work that way. this is exactly what people thought was going to happen

during watergate when nixon was contesting his tapes. there were members of the supreme court, most of whom were appointed by republicans or as a conservative majority. it was unanimous again. they ordered him to turn over those tapes. the fact is that supreme court justices have a duty to the constitution, they abide by the rule of law, and that's what happened then and that's what happened now. >> and i just want to make it clear. so you have no surprise that the court ruled as it did tonight and earlier in the week? >> none whatsoever. >> unanimous. >> none whatsoever. this is precisely what i assumed they were going to do, what everybody predicted they would do. if you read those briefs that were just full of lies and conspiracy theories and nonsense, you wouldn't have a fifth grader submit that kind of material to dog license appeals, never mind the supreme court. >> nick, i appreciate your time.

thank you very much. i want to go now to the republican governor of new hampshire, chris sununu. govern governor, i really appreciate your time tonight. thanks. obviously nick is laying out this is what he expected, others expected it is unanimous from the court. are you surprised that the court flat out rejected texas's challenge? >> no, not really. i support the president. joe biden won here in new hampshire so our attorney general's pretty clear early on that we didn't have any standing. our electors really didn't have any standing in this. i'm also a tenth amendment guy. any time states try to infringe on what other states are doing i hesitate on that. i support the president's ability if something in the voting in other states, he has every right to challenge that. it appears now he's exhausted those challenges. joe biden is the president-elect. he's very likely going to be sworn in on january 20th. as governor, we've got to move on. i've got a job to do. i have vaccine coming next week,

we have budgets to handle. covid is still very much here. >> yeah. >> as governors, we've got a job to do and we have to stick to it. >> republicans signed on to this and i believe it's supported here. kevin mccarthy joined them. our reporter kaitlyn said, we did it because we thought the supreme court would shoot it down but we need the president. we were doing it, you know, essentially for our own careers. that's not something you did. not something anyone in your state did. what's your reaction when you hear that sort of thing? the states are really high. >> they are high. i'm not going to fault anyone for making the choices they make. talking about loyalty test. look, in this world in a governor, i have loyalty to the citizens of new hampshire, that's it. it really starts and stops right there. i can't speak for what other folks did and why they did it, their motives to doing it. i support their right to do it.

i think we all knew it was a long shot at best. it was unanimous, right? even from his own appointees to the supreme court shot this down. it was pretty clear, but he had every right to do it. states have the right to at least try it. on monday the electoral college goes into play and my sense is that it's going to move as smoothly as someone can expect and joe biden will get the electorate. >> what do you say to someone -- well, there's a lot of republicans in congress, right, who refuse to call joe biden president-elect? what do you say to them? presidential college happens monday. we have to hope they change their tune. there's a lot of americans who need to understand the truth of what happened. they need their republican leaders to speak that truth. what do you say to them on monday? how do they turn it around and say, okay, we're on board, joe biden's going to be the president? >> i've got to be frank. i don't care what congress says

going forward, it's a done deal. i care that they do something for the american people, surrounding the vaccine, covid. they've sat on their butts for eight months. i don't think any of them deserve their jobs at this point. none of them deserve their jobs. that's kind of it. they've exhausted all the legal challenges. we've got to move on. with me, i don't care what's said about this issue. it's in the past. we have such a big job to do in this country and congress has to get down to it and figure out how to find some bipartisanship, move the ball forward, provide funding. you have to be careful how much you're going to spend, find the middle ground. governors have a big job to do. we're operationallizing, innovating. congress has the luxury much not having to worry about that. all they do, they support funding, support a policy and that's it. that's the entirety of their job. it ain't that hard.

that's my frustration with congress at this point. stop worrying about politics of yesterday and start doing the job of today. >> okay. i hear what you're saying. as there is this dire need for some sort of -- to deal with this crisis, there's also the cdc, dr. redfield saying you're going to have up to 200,000 more people dieing in the next three months even with the vaccine coming out. the numbers are stunning, staggering and horrible. the president hasn't been talking about it because he's been talking about the lawsuit. we've seen the worst week for coronavirus deaths, governor sununu, this week, since the whole thing began. i know it hit very close to home for you. you talk about what's happening in your state. republican just elected speaker of the house in new hampshire died of coronavirus on wednesday. i know he was a close friend of yours and you have said you want people to know about this. his death was a cautionary tale. why? >> it's a cautionary tale, and dick was a great friend, but it is a cautionary tale.

people have to understand when we talk about masks, social distancing, all of these stipulations, it's not the safety of you the individual, the safety of your co-workers, your family, the community. when you have a select few individuals, it's across this country. there's a minority spending so much time trying to convince other people not to be safe. it's just completely irresponsible, it really is. we have -- to your point, we're at the peak right now. hopefully at the peak. hopefully we start seeing a downturn in terms of hospitalizations, fatalities, but it's very, very real. it doesn't matter whether you're an elected official, long term care facility, old or young, it can have very, very negative effects for you and your family and loved ones. asymptomatic transmission, community transmission. we're still very much in this. that's why congress has to do their job. governors i think have been doing a great job across the country making sure they're

operationallizing something. we have a vaccine coming in a number of days. we've been waiting nine to ten days. in a matter of days we have to be ready to go. we definitely are. that's really the message here. a cautionary tale. dick was such an incredible individual. everyone needs to be part of understanding why that happened and making sure that they have taken care of their families, their co-workers, that person in aisle six in the grocery store. it's a community effort. >> governor, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> you bet. next, the breaking news as we are waiting for the go ahead from the fda on that coronavirus vaccine could be literally movements away as the white house has threatened the head of the agency, the head of the fda earlier today. we'll tell you why. plus, sarah palin back in georgia today pushing a lie she urges the republicans to vote in the senate runoffs. >> the rigged election, and i know that's for a whole nother

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once that happens. it will be a major milestone in the efforts to fight the pandemic in this country, which tonight hit another record for hospitalizations, the sixth day in a row, as death this week is also a record. so the vaccine should be celebrated. but it comes as president trump even at this late hour, just before the vaccine gets shipped across the united states, is making it about politics in terms of the approval process. two sources, including a trump administration official, telling cnn tonight that white house chief of staff mark meadows gave fda commissioner dr. steven hahn a blunt warning earlier today, and it was this -- either green light the vaccine by the end of the day, or resign. you heard that right, a threat, authorize the vaccine when we want it, or resign. this is another source as president trump has been ventilating since hahn began administering pfizer's vaccine this week.

president trump went on twitter, get the damn vaccines out how, dr. hahn. stop playing games and start saving lives. three exclamation points. so why is president trump playing politics with the vaccine? the reason is simple -- right now, he is making it all about getting credit for the vaccine. earlier today, he tweets -- >> and if you needed more proof president trump is in it for the credit, here he is again. >> don't let joe biden take credit for the vaccine. don't let him take credit for the vaccines, because the vaccines were me, and i pushed people harder than they've ever been pushed before. >> "outfront" now, the former fda commissioner, under president obama, dr. hamburg, and dr. reiner.

so dr. hamburg, everyone a anticipates that this vaccine is going to receive the green light. so to have the chief of staff call up and say do it by the end of the day or resign is a needless threat and a nasty one. what would you do, what is dr. hahn to do now? >> i think dr. hahn is working with the team of scientists and professionals at the fda to move this vaccine authorization forward as quickly as they can. it is a historic event, it couldn't be coming at a more important time in terms of where we are in this devastating pandemic. everyone wants this vaccine to be made available. but i don't think that the white house trying to put undue pressure on the agency is going to make a whiff of difference, to be honest. and i think it will only harm

the overall efforts to be people to have confidence in this vaccine. the fda has been working very, very hard to have an open transparent process, a process that is clearly driven by science and data. huge efforts have been made to try to restore some of the confidence that has been lost because of this undue intrusion of politics. so i think they should just sit back. this is, as you said, a moment to celebrate, not to criticize. >> dr. reiner, that is part of the problem here, as i said. this was anticipated to get a green light. it got the committee -- for that call to even come to dr. hahn, that threat, do it tonight or else, is unnecessary, done for political and personal reasons, and unfortunately, could have the effect of sewing doubt, creating the perception of doing

it for political reasons or threats or pressure opposed to science, which is what you don't want the american public to think. >> exactly. so unnecessary. what the vaccine gets an eua today, tomorrow or sunday, the vaccine is being shipped next week, the plans are already in place. we know it will receive an eua. so counterproductive. when i see patients in clinic, i ask if they intend to cake the covid vaccine. when they say no, the most common explanation is, they're concerned it's been rushed. so now what do you see? you see the chief of staff basically rushing the fda, unacceptable, completely counterproductive. >> so dr. hamburg, there's a new on pp-ed in "the wall street journal." the fittal is atal -- title is instead of two."

the pfizer vaccine is a two-shot vaccine over a period of a month. he writes, the protocol was to give all participants two doses. the fda is likely to approve this protocol, but we are in a pandemic, and supplies of the vaccine are inadequate. there's an alternative. vaccinating as many as possible with the first dose and waiting for the booster when supplies are plentiful. doctor, what is your reaction to this? this is the idea he's putting out there, get more people with a single dose and deal with the boosters as supplies come online. what do you say? >> it certainly is a topic of discussion we talked about in the vaccine advisory committee yesterday a bit. the studies weren't done to answer the question of whether one dose was sufficient rngs , really can't be sure that the level of protection that one dose gives would persist, we

don't have enough information, because the people in the study got another dose in about a three-week time frame. but it's something that should be looked at in more detail. it certainly is the case that we have marked limits in the availability of the vaccine at a time when we need the vaccine desperately. so i think it's an area that needs to continue to be looked at, but as we go out now, i think it should be done in accordance with how the study was structured and the data that we have to support the importance of that second booster to get the level of efficacy up, and probably the duration of protection enhanced. >> so doctor, one other question. as the president this spring was talking about, it's just one case, it's a dozen cases, it's going to go to zero. there were so few we knew about t the time, and the team in massachusetts looked at the

biotech conference in february in boston, but everyone now knows was a super spreader event. they did a genetic fingerprinting study, which found that one case there led to 245,000 cases. one case led to 245,000 cases across the united states and europe. that is incredible. that's one person gets sick, 245,000 cases. deaths, all from one. >> this is an opportunistic virus. it will spread from person to person to person until there's herd immunity. we are going to have herd immunity this coming summer after we vaccinate a sufficient number of people in this country. but if you are unmasked and you are infected and you encounter people who have not already had this virus, you lywill infect them. that conference shows how

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in tonight's callout, sarah palin joining a newly elected wong come who promotes qanon conspiracies. both of them repeated the president's claims of a rigged election. ryan nobles is "outfront." >> reporter: it is crunchtime in georgia. even though the senate runoffs

are more than three weeks away. >> we've got your back, georgia. we got your back. >> thank you! >> reporter: and high profile must bes hike former vice president nominee sarah palin are crisscrossing the state, selling the message of protecting a gop majority by electing david purdue and kelly loeffler. >> i want to speak on behalf of america, georgia we need you to not just show up january 5th, not just win, but to crush it! >> reporter: voters have started returning absentee ballots. early voting beginning statewide monday, as republicans try to balance two causes that don't totally align. >> i want you to be confident about your vote. >> reporter: urging supporters to vote in the runoffs, while at the same time lending support to president trump's claim of election fraud. >> the rigged election, and i know that is for another bus stop, but for a rigged election. >> reporter: republicans are encouraging mail-in voting a

practice the president and allies have attacked. but with the control of the senate on the line, republican volunteers like brad carver are making the pitch. >> i think a lot of our voters still will vote early, in person, and i think we will see all other voters take advantage of the absentee ballots. >> reporter: democrats are doing the same. >> let's get some signs to vote. >> reporter: pushing their supporters to vote early. >> good afternoon early. >> reporter: joe biden will travel to atlanta tuesday and this weekend, the two democratic candidate also make stops across the state. >> that's why everybody needs to make a plan to vote, because these attacks on voting rights are real and cannot be permitted. >> reporter: for republicans, one critical question down the stretch is whether the president's baseless attacks on the voting in the state will undercut the campaigns of the gop candidates. especially while gop officials in the state like congresswoman

margorie taylor greene, who has promoted the qanon theory, continue to talk about the november results. >> we know for a fact that joe biden did not win georgia! we know that georgia re-elected president donald trump. now, we've got two fights on our hands. >> reporter: all with the goal of keeping the president's loyal supporters engaged until january 5th. and these claims by the president and his allies here in georgia are having real world consequences. i talked to a lot of voters since covering this georgia runoff. i've yet to meet a republican that doesn't believe the president's claims about the election on some level, some way, shape, or form. the question is, does that blow back on the republican candidates here running in the runoff election? do the voters here not trust the system, and then not show up in

january? that's a question that we'll find out the answer to in three weeks. >> ryan, thank you. and now our next guest, she debunked the claim of voter fraud by team trump. when a trump put out a list of voters who allegedly cast illegal voters, she recognized two of them, two of her friends and a constituent, three total. all of whom she know were voting legally. so she spent days looking through public records, knocked on doors and found dozens of other voters on president trump's list who were all eligible, all free and fair voters. and after she did all that leg work, she then called it out publicly. >> you allege that these voters have committed a felony. when i picked up that phone and called my friend and let him know he was on that list, he and his wife were very surprised to learn that their names had been attached to a federal lawsuit, and there have been no attempts

to contact them to verify any of this information. >> "outfront" now, georgia house representative bee wen. so you were talking in that clip to matt brainerd, whose information has been used in suits filed by president trump and his team. and you knew the information wasn't correct. you went out and checked it. did you ever think that you would find this about voters, names of people that you just completely made up, who knows how they even picked those names, used by the trump campaign? >> no. i mean, i knew that the allegations and the numbers produced were inaccurate. but i did not know how easy it would be to see when i pulled those exhibits that are attached to this federal lawsuit. i pointed out yesterday in committee, upon looking at the first page, there are duplicate entries of voters, three different voters listed twice for the same allegation. in his testimony attached to

this lawsuit, he assures people that he has cleaned up this file for duplicates. you know, some of this information i think on the surface for the general public, it might make sense, it does make sense in some ways, right? if you see a voter who has the exact same name and the exact same birthday registered to vote in two different states, you might be led to believe that they no longer live in georgia. what i did on that first list was look through the first ten names. i was able to find property tax records with public records and found that these voters, eight out of ten of these names still live in the state of georgia, they still pay property taxes, they claim homestead exemption as their primary property here in the state. and i subsequently picked up the phone and was able to connect with a voter who confirmed he still lives in georgia and has only voted in the state of georgia and has a lengthy voting

record that is also public record that one could have looked up to verify. >> so you put all this time in. you went and did the leg work. to find out the truth, right? and then you spoke out and you told the truth, which was a courageous act in and of itself. the problem is, as you know, representative, most people don't do that and they hear what they're told. and when lies are repeated and you omt hear the lie, you might start to believe it. here are some voters in your state. >> you think biden won? >> no. not at all. >> do you think trump won? >> i think trump won. >> do you genuinely believe that he -- >> kicked joe biden's ass? yes, i do. >> i think the whole election, the count was wrong. the systems were rigged. >> so representative, what do you do about that? they believe what they've been

told. >> it's very important to me when we had the opportunity to speak in committee to present facts, real facts, and do the leg work to ensure that i understood what was in this lawsuit. it's a very lengthy lawsuit. it's 1500 pages long. the exhibit that includes the names of these is also extremely long and hard to navigate. it's a pdf file, and there are many names on this list. so i felt it was important to do my due diligence and to contact the voter's names two have been accused of committing a felony and having a conversation with them in real life or on the phone. you know, i recognized a zip code on the file and i knew i represented her. and i feel it's my responsibility to ensure that i am watching out for my

constitue constituents. i knocked on her door in my campaign, so i just went over to her house, and she was there with her husband. they had both lived there since 1985. they're older, black voters living in the south, and when i told her that her name was on this public filing, i wanted to assure her, because i did not want her to be alarmed or afraid, to feel like, you know, she wasn't going to be protected in a court of law for this accusation that was false. >> so you're now, as i mentioned, on the receiving end of some awful stuff, death threats for speaking out like you did. i know you knew you were taking rive risks by doing what you did. but some of the stuff that is happening and some of these threats are awful and beyond the pale of what anybody could have expected. how do you feel about that now, and why is it so important to keep doing what you're doing, to

come on and do interviews like this one? >> i think every elected official in this country, every election worker in this country is in a tenuous position of trying to decide do we do our job or risk our lives? that is not an acceptable position for people who are just trying to do the right thing. i made a calculated risk, because i feel i ran for office because i wanted to represent my constituents and wanted to fight for my values and the values of the people that i represent. i knew that there would be repercussions, and what i'm most disappointed about is my colleagues on the republican side who understand that a lot of what is being said is disinformation. they understand that our lives are being risked every single time they allow hearings like that to go on, that they allow information to be unchecked. they know that our lives are in danger, and they have yet to speak out on our behalf.

you know, politics are partisan in public, but behind closed doors, we have to work together. some of us are friends. we see each other every single day during legislative session. and i'm waiting for them to have our backs, because at the end of the day, it is not worth -- it is not worth people taking -- being threatened. it is not worth your colleague's life being endangered or an election worker's life being endangered. >> representative, thank you very much for your time. it's important for people to continue to hear these details. i want to go back to breaking news this hour. the last-ditch effort by president trump and the republicans lawsuit has been rejected by the supreme court.

it was an ateventempt by the president. keep in mind, 18 other states attorneys general and 126 house republicans got on board to pursue their own political futures or pardons or who knows what it is. the context of this is the second time this week the court has spoken with one voice and said get out of here. and you have the electoral college meeting on monday when this is all formalized. how is joe biden responding to the supreme court's unanimous decision tonight? >> reporter: well, biden's team is welcoming this decision from the supreme court. this is, as you mentioned, the second time this week that they have gotten a ruling like this, and they have always felt that biden's victory was really -- really had sound footing, that there was nothing that would up

end the fact that he won the election. i want to read you a statement from a campaign spokesperson. he said, the supreme court has decisively and speedily rejected the latest of donald trump and his allies attacks on the democratic process. this is no surprise. dozens of judges, election officials from both parties, and trump's own attorney general have dismissed his attempts to deny that he lost the election. biden's victory will be vatified by the electoral college on monday and he will be sworn in january 20th. so this decision is just the latest in a strange of valing o validations that they have gotten regarding these legal efforts. they have long dismissed these challenges as political theater. they didn't think anything president trump would bring up would change the outcome of the election. and they will be waiting for that electoral college vote on monday to really give that

decisive end to all of this, as they prepare for biden to take office in january. >> i want to go now to the attorney general in the district of columbia who joins me on the phone. he is the president of the national association of attorneys general, which obviously is significant here, given that 18 of them signed on to the brief here. what do you make of the supreme court ruling, attorney general? >> erin, a pleasure to be with you, as always. look, we knew, and anyone who studies law knows, that the texas ag's claim and other ags who joined in, the congress folks who joined in, had no legal basis. we were always confident in the rule of law. that is that there is no trump judge, no obama judge, there's only a rule of law. the united states supreme court, which people would say is ideal logically 6-3 on the republican side, voted for democracy.

now is the time to move beyond this. i am not going to criticize the 18 folks who joined that brief. i'm going to ask them to do what president lincoln urged the south to do after the civil war. let's get together and bind this country's wounds and move forward in a way that takes care of the pandemic and the people in the united states who are suffering as a result. donald trump is a footnote in history that will be seen as a bad footnote that will never go back to again. let's talk about america. >> so attorney general, let me ask you, because obviously in your capacity as president of the national association of attorneys general, you know all of these folks, 18 of your attorneys general signed on. >> some of them are my friends.

>> a18 of them signed on, and they know the law. they know, i would presume, that this was ridiculous. why do you think they did it? >> i think there's been unprecedented withering, coercion, and pressure by president trump to pressure people to join. i think there's probably a handful or less than a handful who actually don't know the law, and have been put in by our poor campaign finance rules to just be mouthpieces for, honestly, unbridled power. and those few, i'm not going to name them, it's time for you to leave the attorney general room. the overwhelming majority, come on back, work with us as we move this country forward. >> all right. attorney general, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. >>

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tonight failure washington stall stimulus bill provides urgently needed stimulus relief. more than 850,000 jobless. 14 million americans are about to face eviction. they can't pay their rent. the last stimulus back in the

spring it was important and happened quickly and made a difference. there has been nothing. no one came together on another relief bill. all we gotten from leader in washington is finger pointing. >> this is not what they are offering. >> nancy pelosi does not want to approve it. i do. >> what's standing in the way is donald trump and mcconnell's senate. >> every turn they deflected. >> just complaining about each other. now one restaurant owner who struggles who we have been following from the beginning of the pandemic. he's the owner of a restaurant in los angeles. he now has five employees working each night. i have talked to you over the past eight months and every time i hope this time is when you will be talking about things

doing better and you get the help you need and get to the other side when there is a vaccine, yet, this is not the case. how upset are you that congress just not responded yet? >> i am upset and i am freig frustrated, over 100,000 restaurants have closed in the last 200 days and more will keep closing if congress does not do anything. they need to put their politics aside and they need to fes ocus the american people and small businesses losing everything everyday. >> now there is this bipartisan framework. that's all it is at this point. in it, tom, more money for airlines and music venues. those things may indeed be necessary. there is no relief for independent restaurants or bars which is the definition of restaurant ans and bars.

$900 billion and no money for you and millions like you. >> we are the second largest private sector in the country. we employ 11 million people in the united states. this does not include our supply chain of wine, wineries and farmers and breweries, the linen people and the janitors and everything. their interests seem to be with large corporations. the small businesses are not getting anything done. and we need relief now. >> and now what you have been doing, in-door dining was banned and you have to push yourself into a pretzel to be outdoor market to comply with the rules

and back in march you had to shutdown. how much more runway do you have, tom? >> well, you don't have much longer i think. we are trying to hang on as long as we can. we have invested quite a bit in our outdoor patio and trying to make all the changes and pivoted accordingly. but, a lot of these decisions we don't have a say and when they decide to close down, they just close down and there is nothing we can do about it. so, the only thing we are hoping for now is really federal aid. >> so how do you get by? how do you even plan and live your life like this? >> we are just figuring it out day by day and we are hoping each day is a little bit better. >> i want to play one more thing for you, tom, obviously you are going to have a new president at

the end of january. joe biden did talk about coronavirus relief today. here is what he said. >> congress needs to act now. millions and millions of americans simply can't wait any longer. >> saying the right thingthings you think things can change in a new administration when it comes to the practical reality of getting a bill and getting money to you and others like out? >> we really hope so. millions of people are going hungry and millions of people are getting evicted and thousands of small businesses are getting closed everyday. >> so, we really hope -- there is a lot of hope in the administration. i guess we are going to have to wait and see. >> all right, tom sopit, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. hoping things will change dramatically. >> thank you. >> thank you. thanks very much to all of you for watching on this night

as we await news from the fda and have the breaking news rejecting trump overturning the election. let's turn it over to anderson cooker. good evening, the president of the united states calling the supreme court for courage, over turning the election he so clearly lost. he got his answer from the supreme court, no. the court rejecting by the state of texas and stunningly joined by 126 house republicans to overturn all the votes, in michigan, wisconsin and georgia. state of texas motion to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of understanding under the article iii of constitution. all pending motions are dismissed