fewer ratings than cnn. news max is small but it is g w growing inci size. there is only one word describing what's happening here and that's radicalization. >> it is disturbing. thank you very much brian, i appreciate your time. i appreciate all of you and anderson is now. good evening, joe biden is the president elect. the president may not want to hear it today. maybe he'll accept that two men he admires finally came out and said so, vladimir putin and and herrero says it is over. >> the electoral college has spoken. so today i want to congratulate president-elect biden. the president-elect is no stranger to the senate. he devoted himself to public

service for many years. >> reporter: s >> six weeks and dozens of cases and threats against officials who are just doing their jobs, a slow clap for senate majority mitch mcconnell. after all he was not saying anything that's not obvious, calling the race for president-elect biden. it is not like he said anything to condemn what the leaders of his party to overturn the election he lost everyone thou means to tear the country apart. manu raju asked him about it. >> president trump claimed that this election is rigged and stolen. do you have any concerns of what the president have been saying? should he accept the results? >> look, i don't have any advise

to give the president on the subject. i have said this morning for me and i think on the basis of the way the system works, the decision by the electoral college yesterday was determined. >> the way the system works, except this is not the way the system is supposed to work. it is what happens when the president and his allies exploit that system. it is how things work when a cow party does not have the backbone to accept the fact that they lost. some under armed guards and other in secret locations and has always been a formality. yet, senator mcconnell who knows better who has been fiddle out that same tune for weeks now.

here is mcconnell two days after the race is called. >> our institution is built for this. we have the system in place to consider concerns. president trump is 100% within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options. >> eight days later he was pretending that his voice is the highest ranking lawmaker in the land did not matter. >> what we all say about it is frankly irrelevant. all of this will happen right on time and we'll swear in the next administration on january 20th. >> that was almost a month ago. a month he's been playing the game. t "the system" has been stretched to the breaking point at the president's direction to be sure. he could have helped but he did

not hence the slow clap today. what mitch mcconnell did today was only the bare minimum. >> i think a different question and important question is how many republicans will say that what the president is saying is simply wrong and dangerous. there has been no evidence of substantial fraud of the nature that is necessary to overturn the election and even the attorney general said that. so we need to have people who are strong, trump supporters come out and say that as well or you are going to continue to have this country divided which is pretty dangerous. >> romney pressured few republicans will call out the president's behavior. that's on top of the man who still would not say he lost. only 18 senate republicans have explicitly recognized joe biden's victory. john cornyn in texas says i

think everybody realizing yesterday counting the electorate was a pivotal moment. and on the other hand, rick scott, in florida would not say joe biden is the president-elect biden. with all due respect, when did you stop beating your wife? that's a gotcha question. who wins the election? i believe it is a gimmie. states counted the ballots three times and certified joe biden is the winner. >> if you look at all the republican congressmen of the number of votes, president trump got 33,500 less votes. if you look at the metro region, senator perdue got 19,000 more votes than president trump did. he had some challenges in those areas. the job of a political party in this case is a republican party to raise money and get out to vote and they got out worked. >> they got out worked, he says. the other side won.

it is not an easy thing to say but what people in both parties have been doing for generations when their side loses. >> now that the electoral college voted, does the president acknowledge that joe biden is the president-elect. >> the president is vofrinvolve ongoing litigation. i will leave it to him and refer to you on the campaign for more on that litigation. >> more of the president's legal defense, first let's start with jim acosta at the white house. is there any sense how the president feels about senate mcconnell congratulating president-elect biden, what's the status of that? >> reporter: it is a good question, anderson. he has not weighed in or fwetwed about this.

ye the clearest information of what the president feels have been captured. the secretary did not want to weigh in on that. she did at one point incredibly state that the president, the current president, is preparing for which ever scenario emerges, whether it is a transition of power or a continuation of power. she uses those words suggesting somehow the president may remain in office. that's a laughable thing to say considering what we saw take place in the electoral college yesterday and considering what's und senator mcconnell says. people inside the white house given up on this. they don't understand why the president can't concede to the election. i talked to an adviser, he says describing this way, talk about the rolling stone song that we

used to play at the end of trump's rally, you can't always get what you want. this is it. this is the end for president trump. >> i mean what is she talking about? the president is saying he's being audited. he's been shutdown at every turn in the litigation even at the supreme court. >> reporter: again another example of how the white house's press secretary came into the briefing room and just did not have any answer. they have been the ones spreading the disinformation since the election. within oth while the president refused to concede, the trump campaign is putting out a fund raising

e-mail saying do you think the president should run in 2024? ander sob anders anderson, if they are talking about the president run ning in 2024, he lost this election? >> talked to a source close to the white house about this who's in touch with republican members of congress. this person describes this idea of prospect as an exercise, those were the words the source close to the white house used. the president is indeed looking to that date of january 6th. i have been told by a couple of different advisers that's the case. he thinks house members are going to be able to go in there and overturn election results. they're not dealing with the real world and they're not living in the same world you and i are living in.

he has some amendment to stay in power some sort of continuation of power as kaleigh put earlier. jim acosta, thank you. joining me now the white house majority whip, democrat of south carolina. the fact that senator mcconnell took so long to acknowledge reality and congratulated president-elect biden, i mean it may be laughable if it had not i am part president trump's abusing the system, how do you think where things may stand? >> thank you very much for having me, anderson. when i saw 126 of my colleagues signing on a brief to ask the supreme court of the united states to install an autocracy.

in some way validate the voters that allowed us to put in place an autocrate, that to me slould been what woke mcconnell up. maybe it did. i am pleased to see him come to this conclusion but it should not have been this hard. i have no idea why it is that he and so many others on the other side of the isle have lost faith in the process that made this country what it is today. i welcome into the real world and hopefully sp-- >> the attorney generals in states across the country also signed onto this, i didn't go to law school and that was a

ridiculous lawsuit. anybody with eyes that can see would know that. i want to play something that we just got from manu raju asking mccarthy if he's willing to acknowledge joe biden won as president-elect. i want to show you this. >> now that he's won the election, is he president elect? >> i mean -- why won't kevin mccarthy acknowledge reality? >> i don't know. i have been grappling with this trying to figure out exactly what allowed independent elected officials to be this way. i can't figure this out. donald trump is one person,

participated in a process that's designed to keep this country together for decades. and all of a sudden elected officials seemed to be unable to exert their responsibilities and recognize what the constitution is laid out for us. i am having a real problem trying to figure this out. i saw what the president is doing. i do not believe this man plans to give up office. i said it back in february 2018 and it has come true. there is something about the things he was saying that a lot of people laughed at. i just took it seriously.

i don't believe he's stopping. he's going to make some attempt to have some of his minions pull some shenanigans on the sixth of january. >> the fact that so many of your colleagues are in this way, kevin mccarthy skittering away from manu raju. i am glad he's wearing a mask but you know he can still talk through that mask. is it just fear of the president's supporters? fear of the president saying mean things about them and trying to mobilize the lunatic conspiracy fringe to go to their homes? other than fear of, you know, the mob and the president controlling people and telling them what to do. i don't understand -- why dually

e lekk elected people in another arm of government with legislative power would be so scared. >> well, fear is probably is apart of it, maybe all of it. i don't understand it. i don't know that kind of fear. to me you tend to respect people in office. you don't fear them. you give them the proper respect and i have always done that even with this president. for me to give up my authority and present hood in order to help somebody living out their fantasies not when the country is at stake. this democracy is very, very fragile, more fragile than i would have thought when i used the teach it years ago.

we just experienced some things that brought us to the realization that democracy can be brought to an end if we are not careful. i do believe most voters and on their minds when they went to the polls this year, what can i do? what can i do to maintain this great pursuit is what i call it. a pursuit of a perfect union. we have always been on that journey. we almost got off of it this year and thankfully at least 88 million voters decided we want to continue the pursuit. >> i want to ask you of the ongoing stimulus negotiations, i know some of the congressional leaderships is meeting tonight

with speaker pelosi, do you believe there will be an agreement? >> yes, i do. i do believe that we are going leave here later this week with an agreement. now the numbers are getting reduced and people tend to look at the top line numbers and not look at it exactly what we are doing. the numbers are going to be reduced because we cut back on the length of time. so it takes one number to go for a year is a totally different number if you do it for four or five months. what we are going to do is come up with something that'll allow us to keep direct aid to people who need it and for us to do it for a shorter period of time and hopefully the new congress and administration will be able to work together in a way that nobody will fear about it.

everybody will respect each other and then we'll come up with some programs and priorities that'll benefit the american people and get us out of this pandemic. >> in the new agreement, do you see americans getting checks? >> they'll be getting checks. what kind of checks? separate direct payments as we did in one instance from unemployment checks. yes, americans will get checks. it may not be the same checks that they got before but there will be cash going into people's households. >> congressman clyburn, i appreciate wroyour time. >> thank you for having me. coming up of the president's fund raising and the kind of news we all needed of another vaccines taking a final step.

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>> reporter: fight against chaos. this is alarming and i can see nothing. all e-mails from the trump campaign to supporters asking them to donate to an election defense fund. it started on election day only hours after the polls closed. >> this is a major fraud in our nation. >> reporter: in all about 500 e-mails and 170 text messages have been sent hitting sp supporters for cash. more than $207 million was raised between election day and early in december. >> it is a hard thing to concede because we know is massive fraud. >> reporter: no fraud was found. asking supporters to demand a fair election and contribute $5 immediately to defend the election from the radical left.

meanwhile campaign finance experts warned much of this money could end up in trump's pockets. most of the donations are going straight to trump's leadership pack "save america." >> it is a vehicle that offers donald trump a number of different ways for personal benefits. potentially donald trump can use save america to pay himself a salary and rent out the trump hotel and put tiffany or advantage ka ivanka on the payroll. >> reporter: a donor has to contribute $5,000 to "save america" before a single penny is going to trump's account. >> trump is raising millions of dollars for his leadership pact, "save america." it can be used as a slush fund

to benefit himself personally and benefit his family financially. the campaign did not respond to our request for comment. last month the campaign spokesperson told cnn trump wants to create a leadership pack to combat voter fraud, what's still unclear if they found any. randy kay, cnn, palm beach florida. >> with trump's vodka, you get a bottle of some liquid. joining us now is timothy o'brien. are you at all surprised given the tactics he's deploying? it seems like it is straight from his play book? >> donald trump has been a human billboard his entire career. he sold the idea that his name stands for a series of meyths

about his business success or about his wealth that he had success which he didn't and he was a self-made man who did not relied on his father's wealth, also not true. in the wake of the election, emotionally and psychologically, he could not accept the notion that he lost. he grew up where his father telling him there are winners and losers and nothing in between. he could not come to terms with that. he's facing league hurdles. i think he's engaging in this absurdity of the election being rigged and fraudulent to show up those things but what he discovered is it turned out to be a money making exercise, he

turned election fraud making into a grift and in less than two months, he raised over $200 million. any of his supporters who really think this money is going to be used to wage a war for cleaner elections and overturn joe biden's victory should close their purses and wallets and pockets because trump is going to use it for his own purposes and own goals as he always has around these countries. >> it reminds me of what happened with trump university which was based on a false premise that was never delivered on. the idea that he needs money to fight the election in court is ridiculous. the idea that he's able to convince a lot of decent people who just want to believe the president and do believe in him, you know, he's allegedly a billionaire and able to give people to give them their hard earned money.

>> not just trump's university but his foundation. other people donated more money to that than he ever did. he and his children never used the foundation the way it was meant to be used. they were sued by the state of new york for this. they were effectively, they were barred from serving another philanthropy in the state of new york because of how they ran it. t the etho is donald trump and his children how to figure it out, i bet you that he's amazed that he raised $200 million in just a brief period of time by essentially propagandas aizing lying. >> i think david axelrod

mentioned this, he says he's running in 2024 and there is all sorts of reasons for him to dangle it out there. keeping his potential voters but also his potential done eors engaged but also allows him to raise more money from overseas. he's not going to be able to borrow money from traditional banks here but perhaps from countries overseas who wants to do business with once again a future president. >> it keeps competitors out of the way as well. it makes it difficult for the republican party. >> trump won't be able to simply use this money to pay off his business loans. he has about a billion dollars in debt, $400 million of that is coming due relatively soon.

he's possibly going to be squeezed in order to pay that money down. he can't just dip into these packed funds to use it to pay business loans. the guidelines around this require him to use it for political purposes. it could be political travel. he can pay salaries to himself to his children and friends to work for the pact and he can give money to other candidates. it has to have a political purpose. the money is going to be watched but he can't give it to a bank to pay off a loan. >> the trump organization has to turnover do you means, where cuu see it going? >> the new york attorney general, both have serious investigations going on with trump. that involves possible tax fraud and possible accounting fraud

and other businesses and irregularities and the manhattan's da's case of campaign finance violation. it is likely that'll end up in a worse case scenario for trump with a major fine but embarrassing public documents and depositions. she's pushing this case hard. she indicated that the trump organization had to turnover more documents to her, she did not specify what they were. that could have criminal charges associated with it. if trump gets charged with a crime, he's certainly guilty of a crime, he's not going to be able to run again in 2024 and he's going to be in hot water legally. >> timothy o'brien. >> still ahead, what the distance inauguration will look like 36 days from now when

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vaccines are being delivered in the arms of healthcare workers. this is more than 2500 americans counting on today. the u.s. reports new high in hoeptizati hospitalizations more than 112,000. more vaccines roll out now from cnn's alexander fields. >> reporter: a second vaccine is nearly here.

moderna proven 94% likely will receive its authorization this week. that'll double the number it sent out in its first batch. more sites are receiving shipments today. in new york city, frontline workers are lining up to get theirs. chicago's first doses in one of the city's hardest hit communities. california received more than 30,000 doses of the vaccines on monday. nearly the number of hospital case in the case on the same day. >> the biggest concern is temperature control. particularly with voopfizer vaccine. that's the biggest concern.

>> reporter: out of the gate, fedex and ups reporting no problem of moving the vaccines across the country. a fast moving nor'easter could affect shipment later this week. >> 6 million people are under some type of a watch or warning. >> reporter: along with the challenge of getting vaccines to americans, there is a challenge getting americans to take it. 70% of people are likely to take it. black americans and republicans and people in rural areas are more reluctant. dr. fauci says president-elect biden and kamala harris should all get the vaccine as soon as possible. >> we should get them vaccinated as soon as we can. >> reporter: alexander fields is joining us now. >> the vaccine is providing a lot of people hope this week.

what is the mayor saying in new york, mayor de blasio? >> reporter: it is clear that we are heading towards a shutdown. the timing for that is right after christmas. it is the decision that rests with the governor. officials expressed concerns of the rising number of cases and the possible strain on hospitals. health officials say it will take two to four uniqweeks to s the impact. it will look similar to last spring with essential activities continuing but with one key difference. this time around the mayor says he's hoping to be able to keep schools opened. >>arou now from our dr. sanjay gupta. seems like the process is going okay. has there been any report of allergic i can reactions? >> no, we have not heard of it

given what had happened in the united kingdom. the roll out seems to be going well. there is a much higher demand than supply right now. in terms of various site that operation warp speed wants to target, sounds like they targeted between yesterday and today. announcing on friday of the upcoming a l upcoming allotment. that's sort of going to be the plan. obviously they're going to try to skcale up manufacturing now o meet the incredible demand. >> looking at moderna vaccine, what are you learning of the second vaccine? we can show you and we pulled some of the most pertinent facts about these vaccines. the moderna is separated by four

weeks. the moderna does not need to be kept as cold. they may offer up wider distribution sort of channels for that. one thing it was a big deal last week, you remember was the age pfizer trial, people 16 or older, the moderna one is 18 and older. similar vaccines, one thing that's emerging, anderson, the vaccine, we know that it prevents illness. does it prevent infection? the moderna paper work released an addendum that basically said they also swabbed people before they got their first dose and between their first and second doses as well. what they found was there were a lot of people who never had any symptoms and they were totally symptomatic but the people who got and actually swabbed positive, a significant number of them were in the placebo far fewer in the actual vaccinated arm. i hope that makes sense.

these people did not have symptoms. they were just swabbed as part of surveillance testing and they found that the vaccinated group tended to be far less likely to have the presence of virus. we'll see what it means. it does not show it is completely protective against people becoming infected. but it does have some impact of this. we are looking that same data out of pfizer which comes in january. >> the timeline of moderna, do you expect the same as whpfizer? >> i think so. i think it is going to be a similar sort of process. thursday, we'll watch the advisory committee meeting, it is nine hours. i watched most of it this past thursday, very ethic people and the scientists who helped develop the vaccine so you get a lot of the background and it was authorized on friday.

probably a similar timeline here. we are expecting that the cdc will tell you okay now we know healthcare workers and people long-term care facilities in the first dprgroup expecting to tels about the second group, essential workers and what about the people over the age of 70 or 65. when are they going to fall into this? hopefully we'll get more clarity on who's next. >> there is new testing approved at-home test, are they reliable? if someone having symptoms, they seem to be more reliable in terms of finding true positives and negatives. if you are doing it for surveillance testing, you're totally symptomatic , it is less reliable about 91% of the time. i think it is a big deal, a anders anderson, this is an at-home

test, does not require healthcare person to be involved. there is a sort of analyzer that connects to the phone that'll give you the results but there is for lab. makes it easy. if you have symptoms, you should stay home. you get this test if you are negative, go out but you have to still wear a mask. >> how soon is it available? >> i believe it is available now. $30 a test or if not available very soon. >> sanjay, thank you. a potential threat posed by some follower of qanon that the president keeps touting. good evening, ladies and gentlemen,

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interpreted as what he appears to claim. rosen says the opposite. once again the president is unhinged in a bizarre conspiracy theory. our senior investigator drew griffin on this and the danger that qanon may pose. >> reporter: what researchers claim as a frightening quick pipeline of lies pushed by qanon community that had become apart of the mainstream with help from one big spoupporter. >> i heard these people love our people. >> reporter: donald trump tweeted it dozens of times of conspiracy theory in the the highest levels of government. researchers at the network

investigate deception and hate in social media found qanon attacks specific pillars of democracy at strategic moment. >> it is my opinion that qanon is among the most dangerou s lie.

>> i just can't seem to get people to understand that this is the radicalization. >> on the face, it's insane, and how concerned is the congress about that as he knows a qanon supporter won a congressional seat from california. >> there's two in-coming heb ins of congress when have supported qanon, a couple of retired generals and a soon to be

expresident with piles of political cash that supports it. it's the legitizimations is what is dangerous. they say, it leads to home grown terrorists that act on a part of some of the theories and act out violently that they are some of the qanon army. >> what can be done to stop it? >> well, the authors of the report say, reports like this can help. but they also think much more is needed. some kind of a disinformation vaccine. some agency, group, organization, that will fight back against the lies where they live on the internet. anderson. >> drew griffin, appreciate it. up next, breaking news on how the -- what the planners want you to know when we continue. introducing fidelity income planning.

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♪ breaking news the team planning president elect biden's inauguration day is warning americans to stay home, not travel to washington, d.c. due

to the coronavirus pandemic, mr. biden and have the elect-- most the festivities will be online. we are joined with more. so, what do we know about the plans for the president elect's inauguration? >> well, anderson, nothing about this this election year has been normal and turns out inauguration day will be no exception. the presidential inaugural committee giving us a sense of what inauguration day next year will look like. as you mentioned, both biden and kamala harris, they are going to be taking their oaths of office on capitol hill and biden will give an inaugural speech. but really, everything else will probably end up looking very different from what we are used to. for example, the committee telling us that the ceremony will be limited in the footprint and i said that the parade is going to be reimagined. we don't know what it means we will find out and it also said that the public really needs to stay at home. so, do not travel to washington, d.c. to try to participate in

any of the activities. i will also finally note the committee has appointed a chief medical adviserer, making the the point here too, that they are trying to get advice from experts and doctors as they try to do it in a safe way during the pandemic. >> what about cabinet choices, what is the latest on that? >> yeah, they are a couple of announcements that are expected, the first is former michigan governor, jennifer gr a anholm, she ises going to be named in energy secretary. she has been a long-time adviser to joe biden and participated in a lot of debate prep sessions and the second gina mccarthy, she is expected to be the former -- excuse me, the next so-called biden's climate czar, she will be overseeing a new office of domestic climate policy and then we have foresaw the announce.

that pete -- >> thank you, a reminder don't miss full circle, you can catch it live. or watch it there on the cnn app at any time on demand, news continues and i hwill hand it over to chris cuomo. >> we have a massive political problem. but this one, we can do something about. right now, the top four congressional leaders are finally talking relief again. it's happening tonight. but the word is, that they are huddling separately right now. and there's no word of a deal. this is unacceptable. because this is not about some irrational sound and fury this will amount to nothing like what we have lived through. it's a soulless, slow walking of relief that must be the focus of attentio