the supreme court comes up short. i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. last night the supreme court ruled against texas and president trump when turning away an attempt to overturn election results in four states. the court issued a short, simple unsigned order that ended what trump had called "the big one," his most ambitious legal challenge to the election result. the night before the opinion was issued i had tweeted this, prediction as i'm about to tell chris cuomo, the best that donald trump can hope for from the supreme court is that they reject texas without comment. because if this case draws any opinion it will surely be blistering. in other words, i knew he'd lose. the question was how far the court would go in its explanation. and the answer is not far enough. it really was a 9-0 decision.

i mean justices alito and thomas were making a point about the supreme court hearing disputes among states not the merit of this case. i think we'd have been better served if the full court had said more. such as when judge stefanos bibos of the third circuit appointed by donald trump recently overturned trump efforts to overturn election results. and he wrote voters not lawyers choose the president, ballots not briefs decide elections. challenges of unfairness are serious, but calling an election unfair does not make it so. charges require specific allegations and then proof. we have neither here. or when at the u.s. district court for the middle district of pennsylvania judge matthew brond, a former federalist society member wrote this in his opinion. this court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative

accusations unsupported by evidence. in the united states of america this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter let alone all the voters of its sixth most populous state. our people, laws and institutions demand more. instead we're left with the supreme court dismissal of trump's lawsuit based on standing. meaning that texas wasn't a proper party to the action. the texas challenge was widely panned by legal experts but was supported by 18 other attorneys general. and 65% of the gop caucus in the house including 75% of the party house leadership. that kind of support gave the president's thin case an -- of credibility that will make it harder for republicans to understand the case had no merit. for example, the texas attorney general relied on the work of a

st statition who argued that joe biden had a less than one in quadrillion chance of winning the popular vote. as my next guest argued when writing for reason that assumes the proportions of the votes cast by mail and still being counted would be identical to those cast in person and were already tabulated. anybody paying attention to the election knew that was not going to be the case. it was the red mirage versus the blue shift. so now what? on monday the electoral college will do its job in ratifying the election results. then on january 6th, house members will do likewise no doubt amidst some further attempts at misshf. and the entire time president trump will continue to raise money so as to fund his effort at running a shadow presidency for the fenext four years basedn the premise this election was stolen from him.

too bad the supreme court did not set the record straight. i want to know what you think. go to my website msmerconish.co and answer this question. joining me now to discuss is david post, an adjunct scholar at theicateo institute and clerked twice for the late justice ruth bader ginsburg. thanks so much for being here, david. less than one in a quadrillion, man that sounds impressive and compelling. what's the real story? >> the real story was what the st statition did was to say two things. if the voters of georgia or any of the other swing states -- if the voters of georgia have the same preferences for republican, democrat in 2020 as they had in

2016 when trump of course carried the state, then the chances that biden would have won a majority of the votes is less than one in one quadrillion. well, that may be true. if my aunt had four-wheels she'd be an automobile. the voters didn't have -- all that shows is the voters did not have the same preference in 2020 as they had in 2016. the same with the mail-in. if the mail-in preferences were the same as in the in-person preferences, if the percentages were the same then trump would have won the state. yeah, then he would have. we know that. that's not very interesting. what's interesting was that they didn't have the same preferences, and they came in overwhelmingly for biden and that carried the day.

so the one in quadrillion figure is deeply misleading. attorney general paxton in his brief -- paxton's attorney general said this shows that the chances biden won were one in a quadrillion, and that is not the case. it shows if you make these very weird assumptions, biden would not have won. >> david, it drew a pants on fire from politifact, i can put that up on the screen and nevertheless was embraced by kaley mcenany. there was much more in the assertions that they were making, but oftentimes based on trends and not on evidence. you know the canard that you cannot win unless you've got ohio and florida, and after all he won both therefore there must be fraud. because after all if you don't win those states -- what else did you find significant about the supreme court handling of this case?

>> well, i mean, i agree with what you said at the outset. i would have liked the court to have spoken more directly to the merits or the lack of merits of the suit. but i can understand the court is a careful institution. when they don't have standing -- when the plaintiff does not have standing to even bring the claim the justices are generally speaking very reluctant to say anything about the claim. it's as if it's not properly before them. so they really shouldn't speak about whether they have any validity. it's unfortunate, but there you have it. but i think it does close -- i think it was very important that justices thomas and alito, though, they said we would hear the case but we would grant no further relief, quote-unquote. that's very important. that means because the relief that trump really wanted, he

wanted an injunction against the governors of wisconsin and georgia and pennsylvania, et cetera to prevent them from doing what they are going to do on monday, which is to call the electors together to make a vote. he wanted an injunction against them. and even thomas and alito were saying we would vote to hear the case, but we would not issue this preliminary injunction against the governors. and if they go forward with what they do, what they are going to do on monday, then the case will rapidly become moot in terms of the election. so the nine of them are staying out of this fight. >> right. true to your point that's what i was referring to. in fact, i underlined it in my own copy of the order. practically speaking it was a 9-0 decision. i encourage people to read what you wrote for reason. and i'll put it in my twitter

feed right now. >> great. good to talk to you. >> what are your thoughts? tweet me out at smerconish. smerconish, accept a kierly stolen election, no it's just the beginning. cindy, i wonder if the court had done what i would have liked which was to write an opinion much like the third circuit or the middle district of pennsylvania if you feel differently. but my hunch is no amount of logic would turn around people who want to see in these results something that suits their own political view. and that's a shame, and i worry it's going to diminish confidence in elections going forward. and that's a problem for all of us. remember now i want to know what you think. go to my website. frankly, this is really interesting. that tweet in combination with today's survey question. will supporters of president trump accept the supreme court rejection of the texas lawsuit? that person who tweeted at me certainly answering in the negative. up ahead, the vaccines are coming. but even as we see heartwarming

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authorization of pfizer's coronavirus vaccine late last night and arrived on what became the deadliest day of the pandemic so far. more than 3,300 american deaths were reported. each day as of late has essentially become a mass casualty event. the cdc vaccine advisers will meet in just a couple of hours and vote to recommend the vaccine. if the cdc accepts that vote, it's all systems go. so now that a vaccine is coming how do you convince enough people to take it? to achieve herd immunity and stop the spread as many as 70% of the population must roll-up their sleeves in the next couple of months. a recent gallop survey shows 63% of americans say they'd be willing to get an fda vaccine. but an associated press poll released this week say only half of americans are ready to take the vaccine and there's a partisan divide. 6 in 10 democrats said they'd

get vaccinated compared to 4 in 10 republicans. a study released found only 14% of black americans and 34% of latinx americans trust that a vaccine will be safe. it's clear thereat the vaccine fence sitters can come from all walks of life. so what sort of messaging can win them over? joining me now to discuss is christopher graves, founder of the oglevee center for science with a focus on vaccine hesitancy for the world health organization and unicef in addition to a major vaccine maker. so mr. graves, your business is one of persuasion. how do we persuade americans to get vaccinated? >> well, first of all, thanks very much for having me. and this is a really important discussion, so thanks for making time for that. this is the thing. we can't persuade people with

one just -- one size fits all message. we are wired very differently as human beings, and we have to respect that. and it's not about converting somebody's beliefs so much as letting them come to understand the importance of their behavior. and where we go wrong is this, mike. we don't use really clear understandable analogies that people get on two stories. one is how are vaccines made? and the second is how do vaccines work? if we don't understand those two things it opens the door to all kinds of really expected uncertainty, doubt, fears and even conspiracy theory and disinformation. so those two things with very clear, simple analogies can work. for example, how vaccines work instead of using jargon and scientific terminology what you can do is say that this new kind of vaccine from moderna and

pfizer, for example, messenger rna it's like code cracking. it's like in the war when you have an enemy message you need to decipher. they code crack the virus. then they send instructions into your own cells. it's like an instruction manual. imagine you've got all the parts for something and no manual? well, your body has the parts but no manual because this disease came from animals not from humans. so you tell them what this vaccine does is it code cracks and then sends in the instructions to do it. or if it's like a boot camp or like a simulation in war gaming for your body. it does not make you sick. >> how about another strategy? you caught my eye with a tweet that you sent out. put it up on the screen. it said this. behavioral science studies confirm the allure of lotteries. why not a vaxx lottery.

the pay off is a big money voucher only good at local small businesses and then a shout out for@james carville. speak to me about financial incentives and whether they're necessary. >> so financial incentives like cash don't work as well in lotteries. this been shown in science including a nobel prize winner richard baylor said this the other day. we humans love lotteries. and secretly once you get a ticket you think you might be the winner. so why not do this? why not have a new lottery, a vaxx pot, a lottery only for people who got vaccinated. free tickets. you're not asking them to do anything. free vaccine, free tickets. you're in a special lottery. the way our brains work we just love lotteries. so why not reward people? the point of behavioral society

you make things easy, make them social and make them fun. you don't scold, lecture and punish into behavior change. >> final subject, how about the role of influencers? the former presidents are saying they'll jointly roll-up their sleeves. what a great photo-op would be if the current commander in chief would also be a part of that process. do influencers play a strong role in this rollout in your opinion? >> they do, but my influencer may not be your influencer. so what we do with our no-covid coalition is match make physicians with different groups. and then super local influencers depending on who you find trustworthy. we know elvis presly did this way back, and we're going to find others, athletes, celebrities doing it. so it can work. >> christopher graves, that was excellent. a real dom draper in our midst.

>> thanks for having me. up ahead, the world's second richest person, tesla founder elon musk just ditched california for texas joining joe rogan, glen beck and others. will this move cause his brand to lose its cache with progressives and become the car of choice with conservatives? and with the pandemic still worsening drones are still a way of policing at a distance, and one california city pd is sending out flying cameras to scope out potentially dangerous situations. what's the downside of these robo cops, if any? that's why doctors recommend tylenol®. it won't raise blood pressure the way that advil® aleve or motrin® sometimes can. for trusted relief, trust tylenol®.

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politically speaking you are what you drive. now tesla's ceo elon musk has made a trail from california to the lone star state. he said relocating made sense with tesla's new factory being built in texas.

but on his way out of the door he took a swipe at california saying it had become a little complacent, a little entitled and taking innovation for granted. this move has personal benefits for musk as well. california's personal income tax 13.3% for amounts over $1 million a year. that's the highest in the nation. but texas doesn't collect state income or capital gains taxes for individuals. other high profile personalities have found financial solace in a texas move. glen beck, joe rogan among them. but musk became the world's second richest person this year making him the highest profile tech executive to leave silicon valley during the pandemic. he is now in a sense the lone ranger, even sporting a little texas cowboy flare with a black bandanna. companies can live and die by their brand image. so it makes me wonder if this move could change the perception of tesla. according to data collected by market research firm strategic

vision, there's a relationship between political leanings and car buying habits. when you look at the top ten vehicle types by political leaning, some specific models overindex, meaning it's more heavily weighted toward a political group tracked by strategic vision. the top three for democrats honda civic sedan, honda accord sedan, subaru forester. top for republicans ford f150. and the tesla model 3 the number one car choice. the data says there are no sluts. some wealthy republicans still out for a pricey tesla. so how could this politically bullish move impact the brands of both tesla and musk? does he lose his base? does he win conservatives? joining me now to discuss is alexander edwards. he's president of the strategic vision and collected the data on political leanings and car

buying habits for forbes. alexander, i love this stuff. let me put up the preference of liberals, progressives. here's what they most favor according to your data. the tesla model 3, the haunlda civic sedan, the toyota rav 4 hybrid, the honda civic hatch, the chevrolet tracks. now let's take a look at the republican vehicles. this is so funny. it's a lot of truck. the ram 2500, ram 1500. you think that musk moving to texas is going to change the identity of tesla? >> thank you very much for having me here, and yes there is going to be a shift. it's not going to be they're going to lose their current base. instead it's going to be an invuivation to others to see

what the other current buyers are currently enjoying. >> let me show you some images. this is what i'm really wondering. are we going to get to a point where ted cruz, where ted cruz is driving -- look we photo shopped this obviously. or the embodiment for me of like a big, bad, tough texan is navy s.e.a.l. marcus letrel of lone survivor fame. we put him in front of tesla. you think buyers are going to buy these cars? >> if driving a sporty vehicle that has great low end torque is important to them, yes i'm sure they're going to consider especially -- one of the things we realize is that people are really enjoying the priorities they want in their vehicles. and if it's sporty tesla has won there. >> there really is truth in jest, though, isn't it? some of this seems so stereotypical and painting with a broad brush.

but what most struck me with your data and research is that it pans out. >> it does. one of the things we typically joke with since we have so much information on new vehicle buyers, what they do, we just have fun as we see people in various vehicles. we can tell a lot about them as they make the statements of who they are in trying to say, hey this is my ideal self. this is who i'm trying to be, and it's -- we think that bumper stickers make a statement. it really is that the car they drive is making that statement. >> something else from your research. covid has impacted buying habits of republicans and democrats in different ways. please explain. >> well, one of the things that we did some additional research on is to understand all the partisanship that's going on here in the u.s. and some of the things that we noticed is that the way that people would approach covid and their perceptions of where

things were at with that was really based on political leanings because their experiences were different. for example, those folks who are conservative republicans were less likely to have lost their jobs in the initial stages of the pandemic. when we hear people on different sides of the aisle saying, you know, what is the problem with this disease? it's not necessarily just because social media friends, cohorts are telling them one thing or another. it's because their experiences also backed that up. and sort of like your, you know, previous guest had mentioned there's a lot of rhetoric on various things rather than some very clear simple answers. here's the problem, here's the solution, this is what we need to do with it. >> but you also found that democrats are looking at buying a car in a covid environment and saying, well, i want it to be safe and i want it to be healthy, and republicans are saying, hey, maybe now's a good time to get a good deal.

>> yes, that is also part of the research as well where we absolutely saw that there was some opportunistic behavior on the conservative side where they thought financially we can make a deal out of this. and those on the democratic side were looking at everything from concerns about the economy, concerns about their job as i mentioned, concerns about the election going, well well how do i make a safe place for myself? how do i go about the shopping process in a very safe way? >> alexander edwards, quick final question. it demands a simple answer. what do you drive? >> i drive a honda pilot. >> ah-hah. i have to go back and look at the data and see where that lines up. by the way, i've got a tesla and an f 150, just saying. >> thank you very much. from the world of twitter what do we have?

let's see what it says. smerconish, large companies and high profile individuals are leaving california for a reason. do you think it's an indictment on liberal guverance or just california governance? i think when he wanted to keep making cars at the time of the california shutdown i think it became obvious that he was at odds with governor newsom, and governor newsom didn't seemingly take him for real when he said he might pull up stakes and leave, but he did. it'll be very interesting to see what happens to the brand. i suspect everybody will embrace it. i hope you're answering this week's survey question at smerconish.com. will supporters of president trump accept the supreme court rejection of the texas lawsuit? still to come, this drone footage. check this out. it is so cool. it's from a california city's police department. it helped locate, identify and capture a gang member. it's part of drone s first responder, a program they have

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so you're look at footage from a police drone tracking a suspect in chula vista, california, a city of some 270,000 in san diego county. it's the first police department in the country with a drone as first responder program. the innovative program started in 2018. it responds to about 15 calls a day. so far launching more than 4,000 drone flights. when a 911 call comes in an officer can press a button and send a drone across the city. in this particular case that you're about to see according to the chula vista pd, a known gang member was out on parole asleep at the front seat of a stolen car in a parking lot with suspected drug paraphernalia visible on his lap.

he exited carrying a gun in a wrapper and a bag of heroin, ran across the street, ducked behind a wall. although the police had trouble following him, the drone hovered overhead, caught him as he tossed the gun in a dumpster and hiding the heroin and his escape route. an officer back at headquarters relayed all of this. the suspect's observed movements to those on the scene who were able to apprehend him and retrieve the weapon and contraband that the drone had filmed while being stashed. the thrown then returned home. he would plead guilty to two felony charges, drug sales and pupossession of stolen property, sentenced to more than five years. chula vista pd said the drone footage helped secure the plea. on the one hand it's great police work and stunning video. on the other hand, i wonder what are the privacy issues for the rest of us. joining me now to discuss is jay stanley, senior policy analyst for the american civil liberties

union on speech, privacy and technology. jay, what concerns if any do you have on the use of this technology? >> a lot of the questions surround where is it going to go from here? you know, drones are a tool like any other that can be used for good thing and ways a bit more sear or questionable. and the chula vista program is very unique. it's pretty much the only police department in the country i'm aware of at least that's doing this. they had to get special permission because it's not legal to fly a drone beyond the sight of an operator. when this gets scaled up and it's not just police drones but may be amazon drones, burrito delivery drones, what have you, that's a lot of drones flying over our communities. so as this technology becomes more prominent it's important we have our ducks in a row with good privacy protections. >> agreed on that. one of the things i like about

this is the ability to keep law enforcement out of harms way and to de-escalate situations. i've got some amazing video from chula vista i'll show where there's a report of a guy with a gun. here he is i think outside of a fast food joint. and you can see he appears to be like waving it around, but it's able to be determined from the drone that it's actually a lighter. i think he uses it to light a cigarette. law enforcement nevertheless respond to the scene. you can see they see him light the cigarette with an object confirming it's not a real handgun. that then gets relay today the officers who are on the ground. they show up. nevertheless, it became an arrest situation i believe because of contraband that he had, drug contraband that he had. but you can understand -- there it is for a narcotics possession. you can understand, jay, where this could have been a case of like man with a gun, they show up, guns drawn, it escalates and you find out later that some guy who's now dead only had a

lighter. >> yeah, i mean, look, there's definitely no question there can be good uses for a tool like this. the question is not just kind of what successes does it have, but what kind of side effects are we not seeing? because police departments like everybody else they brag about their successes and don't brag about about their failures. we have here ai drones that can automatically follow people. there are questions around the ai and whether that might be biased and so forth. and there's a larger question which is when you make things very, very easy to do they sometimes get overused. there's questions about privacy in public and whether or not because it becomes so easy for the police to follow you everywhere because they can just send a cheap $30 drone and assign it, that they begin to follow too many people or they begin to invade privacy in ways that raises a lot of questions. >> and of course the police department says they're very

sensitive to those concerns. they're not going to fly it over your house to take a peek and see on and so forth. so happy to have this conversation because i wonder if it's a sign of what's to now come across-country. jay stanley, thank you, sir. appreciate it. >> thank you. still to come, the white house all dressed up for christmas with the trumps. pretty soon it'll be transformed into the biden home in a span of just a couple of hours. so what happens on moving day when the current occupant doesn't want to be evicted? and i want to remind you to answer this week's survey question at my website smerconish.com. will supporters of president trump accept last night's supreme court rejection of the texas lawsuit? freshly made footlong, from subway®! you can even order on the subway® app! did i just get picked off by deion sanders? you sure did! now in the app, get a free footlong when you buy two. because it's footlong season™! life doesn't stop for a cold. [man] honey... [woman] honey that's why there's new dayquil severe honey.

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imagine completing the move into your new home within five hours of the prior occupant leaving? sounds pretty hectic, right? it's what happens every time a new american president is sworn in on inauguration day. a five-hour sweep transforms the 50,000 square foot white house into the new president's home. on top of the normal process this year the white house will also get a deep cleaning to ensure that covid-19 isn't invited to president-elect joe biden's housewarming party. and on top of all that the current occupant doesn't want to move out. could president trump's refusal to concede impact the turn over

process for the white house residents? joining me now to discuss is kate anderson brower, author of the brand new children's book, exploring the white house, inside america's most famous home. kate, what goes on in the span of those five hours? how do they pull that off? >> it's remarkable. it's about 95 staff. the house keepers trade in their dusters and vacuums for moving crates because the staff, they are the movers for the day. for security reasons they don't hire professional movers. and it's really incredible the work they are able to accomplish in five hours. but a lot of that is because of the planning ahead of time. and as you say this is an unprecedented transition where you have a president not accepting the election results, may not go to the inauguration. but i have confidence they will get this done. it's a huge house, 132 rooms, 16

thus far has been focused on things like is the president-elect getting the pdb, but what about the back of the house? do we know if there's cooperation as to whether the bidens are getting their sofa of choice? i don't wish to minimize it, but all the real life kind of stuff. is it taking place? >> well, the white house isn't saying anything about it, we know, and the biden transition isn't saying much about it either. they have reassured me when i've asked that things are going according to plan, there are trusted people around the bidens who are going to be doing this move. and the bidens have been in washington, they know how this works and know a lot of the staff. it's really tricky. so him to be coordinating with the biden transition team is essentially betraying his boss, so we haven't seen anything like

this in modern history. >> i know from reading one of your prior books that there's this mysterious warehouse somewhere in the suburbs where all the furniture is housed and i think that's where they also keep the arc of the kov nencove from "raiders of the last arc ". don't they get to select what furniture they want in the house? >> they do, and dr. biden knows about this warehouse. that's one of the most fun parts of being a first lady when you move into the white house. i would also add that we know from reporting that there is going to be a deep clean of the white house, which is something brand new because of covid. there will be misters cleaning rugs and drapes, the misters that you see in the white house briefing room, the general services administration is going to be doing a deep clean, which we haven't seen before, because of covid. >> and the goal is that by the time the parade -- and i don't know to what extent there will be a conventional parade this

year. by the time the parade ends and the bidens go back to the white house, literally their toothbrushes are in the proper place? >> that's the goal, you know, and it's remarkable what they're able to accomplish. when the obamas moved in, michelle obama took her staff into the east room and introduced them to the resident staff and said we are on their grounds now, we have to respect them. these are people who stay on from one administration to the next. they're not political. they are happy to serve president trump, happy to serve president biden. it's this rare universe of people that don't get any attention and they are in charge of this move and it's an incredible day and it's amazing to see what they accomplish in five hours. >> and i'm sure that the job description, criteria number one, confidentiality. kate, thank you so much for being here. i really appreciate it. >> thank you, michael. let's check in on our tweets and facebook comments from the world of twitter. i agree with those who say trump

family go to florida for christmas and not return to the white house. michael, i'll take that wager for a nickel. i think he's there until the end, whether that includes going to the inauguration, that's a whole different story. but i would expect him to relish every single minute to live in america's home. still to come, more of your worst and best tweets and facebook comments, and please go vote at smerconish.com, because coming up are the final results of the survey, will supporters of president trump accept the supreme court rejection of the texas lawsuit? this week on "the upper hands"... special guest flo challenges the hand models to show off the ease of comparing rates with progressive's home quote explorer. international hand model jon-jon gets personal. your wayward pinky is grotesque.

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