>> run to the radio. listen to brian. >> see you on "outnumbered." >> sandra: we begin with this fox news alert and major news on the battle against the coronavirus. pfizer says it's vaccine has been more than 90% effective in large scale clinical trials and it could soon seek emergency use authorization from the fda. wall street is loving that news this morning. dow futures have been surging as we work our way towards the opening bell this morning. more coming up. after a contentious election season president elect joe biden calling for unity while preparing to hit the ground running this morning announcing members of his federal task force charged with fighting the

coronavirus pandemic. as cases surge in records in some parts of the country. good morning. >> i'm trace gallagher. president trump shows in signs of conceding the election and more lawsuits will be filed alleging voter fraud and misconduct in battleground states. president trump is also planning to bring back his rallies focusing on litigation. his supporters say the future of the republican party is at stake. >> president trump still has a path to victory. to count every single legal vote that was cast. but also not to cast any votes that were fraudulently cast or illegally cast. >> it's the wild, wild west when it comes to mail-in balloting. everything we worried about has come true. if we don't fight back in 2020 we'll never win presidently. a lot is at stake here. >> sandra: byron york standing

by with analysis. peter doocy in wilmington, delaware and kristin fisher live at the white house this morning. any sign from the president this morning as to what is next? >> well, he seems to be moving no closer to any sort of concession. he seems to be moving in the opposite direction. fox learned the president is now seriously consider and even planning on resurrecting his campaign-style rallies in states where he is asking for a recount and filing more lawsuits. trump campaign sls planning on filing even more lawsuits today and we saw them just yesterday in the state of nevada saying they had obtained a sworn declaration from an election worker who claims to have seen voter intimidation and fraud. the trump campaign said the sworn declaration from an eyewitness is evidence. those on the left and others need new talkers. we'll have to focus on the

legitimate issues that have been raised. now, two things to think about, though, when you read that statement. first is that in order for president trump to reverse this decision and for him to be named the president elect, there would have to be evidence, hard evidence of widespread voter fraud. not just in nevada but multiple states. so far the trump campaign has not provided any hard evidence of widespread. that's the key, widespread voter fraud. the other thing to think about is that the nevada attorney general's office says that it had no knowledge and continues to have no knowledge of this sworn affidavit. here is why. the attorney general's office put out its own statement saying they haven't filed a complaint online or in person with alleged evidence to the attorney general's office. you just heard some republicans like senator ted cruz and

lindsey graham defending the president's decision to fight on. mitt romney is saying recounts are completely appropriate in states where there is very close races like in wisconsin. allegations of a stolen election are not. >> it's important for the cause of democracy and freedom that we don't allege fraud and theft and so forth unless there is very clear evidence of that. at this stage that evidence hasn't been produced. >> we have not heard from president trump in person since thursday night during that press conference that he held in the briefing room. as of now nothing is on his schedule. no plans to see him in person. that could change. sandra, the vice president is holding a coronavirus task force meeting this afternoon at the white house. you can bet there is a good chance they will be talking about that good news about the pfizer vaccine. >> sandra: the law will be perfectly mowed by that time, kristin. great job making your way through that report with all

the commotion in the background. thank you. >> trace: president elect joe biden is announcing members of his coronavirus task force. it might be a national mask mandate. peter doocy live in wilmington, delaware. who are some of the members of the task force? >> trace, just hit our inboxes. three co-chairs. dr. david kessler, dr. mercy, the former surgeon general and dr. marcella nunez smith heading up the biden covid-19 effort as others start to talk about who might fill out a president biden cabinet. one of the names floating around is pete buttigieg. they might some help from republicans to get anybody confirmed by the senate. >> mitch mcconnell will have to decide whether he wants to help

move this country forward and influence progress, or whether he wants to stop progress. if he chooses to do that, i'm fearful not only that the republican party would pay a devastating price politically but the american people would pay a price we can't afford to pay. we need action. >> so today the biden campaign is starting to begin to try to turn all the big talk about beating covid-19 into a plan of action. biden advisors also don't want to wait for the long legislative process to play out to undo trump administration policies. so they're starting to make a list of executive orders to sign on january 20th. >> we have a little over 70 days, jake. i hope folks give us a moment to pull it together. i can tell you this, that throughout the campaign joe biden has noted that there are a number of things that we need to tackle and do and that we'll

need to start on day one including addressing the climate crisis. >> and we do expect to see the president elect here in wilmington today and the vice president elect later on. we watched the press pool assigned to travel inside of their bubble at the biden house in wilmington. they'll hold some sort of a briefing about covid-19. we don't know if there will be be questions at this briefing or us watching them be preefd by members of their new task force. >> trace: peter, thank you. >> sandra: president trump accusing biden of stealing the election. they said the same thing four years ago after the 2016 election. the headline for the latest op-ed.

trump accuses democrats of cheating? what goes around comes around. byron york chief political correspondent and fox news contributor wrote those words. share them with our viewers yourself. what's your point, byron? >> good morning, sandra. look, president trump is accusing joe biden and democrats of cheating to win the election and obviously democrats are very unhappy with that and say the accusations are totally unfounded but they should not be surprised. do you remember collusion? it's a word we heard every hour of every day for years immediately after the 2016 election. democrats began to accuse president trump of cheating to win the election, collusion is a word for cheating. that the trump campaign conspired with russia. democrats didn't talk about it a day or two, it went on for

months and years and weaponized with the establishment of a special counsel investigation that went on for two years with the full powers of law enforcement until april of 2019, when the special counsel robert mueller announced that he could not establish that collusion or conspiracy coordination had ever taken place. but this was perhaps the longest accusation of cheating ever. >> sandra: from your piece you write this, byron. the cheating allegation had gone on and on from mid 2016 until mid 2019. it was started and perpetuated by democrats who sought to accuse trump of cheating in the 2016 election. now some democrats say it is time to heal. surely, you write, no one will be surprised if that doesn't happen. now we're moving forward on a day where we all wake up and it's a brand-new week and joe

biden is the president elect and we wonder what his agenda will actually look like. here is kate benningfield on that. listen. >> i think that vice president biden complained on a progressive and aggressive agenda. the climate plan is the boldest biggest plan ever put forward by a nominee running for president. now a president elect. he will make good on those come commitments? >> sandra: the president elect is in a squeeze. it won't get any better as the months go on. it is very likely republicans will control the senate, meaning he can't get anything through the senate except through a republican majority leader. at the same time, he has a

very, very vocal progressive wing in his party. after all, remember elizabeth warren and bernie sanders were popular. it is a squeeze for the new president elect. how can he satisfy this progressive wing, give them enough, convince them he is really trying to enact their agenda, and yet realistically work with a senate majority leader who won't have any of it? i think what we can say is that if there is a republican senate, the progressive democratic dreams of packing the supreme court, of making the district of columbia and puerto rico states. of a green new deal. of sky high taxes it is dead if you have a republican-led senate.

>> sandra: "wall street journal" editorial board this morning on a biden presidency calling it joe biden's time to heal. a word we're hearing often in the days since the election, by ron, having won as the anti-trump he will have to hold off his party's left. so based on what you just said, is there any anticipation that he will be able to do that and this goes right into what we see happening with the senate, of course? >> well, i guess there are two types of healing. there is healing inside the democratic party and the president elect might be able to do that. healing with republicans, maybe not so much. there are lots and lots of bad feelings. republicans do blame democrats, maybe not joe biden specifically but democrats for stretching out this long effort to remove president trump that began before he even took

office. >> sandra: byron york, great to have you this morning. thank you. >> trace: fox news alert now on a big potential breakthrough in the coronavirus battle. pfizer says its vaccine has been more than 90% effective in clinical trials. they see no serious safety concerns. it may apply for emergency use authorization from the fda soon. the dow as you can see in the bottom right is soaring on the news. futures up almost 1700 points. put it at the highest point in history. pointing to big stocks. more at the bottom of the hour and next hour we'll talk to dr. saphier about the possible timeline for the vaccine. >> sandra: we'll watch the opening bell.

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>> sandra: at least 7 people shot and killed and 30 others injured in chicago over the weekend. four teenagers wounded. murders are up 50% this year compared to 2019. >> trace: president trump's legal team planning for lawsuits claiming voter fraud in several swing states with the vote totals continuing to grow in favor of president-elect biden. how much of an argument does the president's legal team have? former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree joins us. rudy giuliani is pointing to things like witness accounts and anecdotal evidence. do you think going forward the campaign will need more physical evidence, ballots, stuff like that to make their

case and convince people they have a strong case? >> yes, i think you put your finger on the issue here. you can't blame the trump campaign given what's at stake for exploring all of their legal options. make no mistake, the trump campaign right now faces in my opinion the mother of all uphill legal battles and they won't play it by pulling together anecdotal stories of a poll worker who did something wrong or a few ballots here or there. they are facing substantial deficits in multiple states. for them to have a hope of bailing they need to come forth with evidence of widespread fraud sufficient not to change the outcome of one state but potentially in both states. >> trace: that's a very good point. you talk about at the same time we know there have been problems in the primaries with the mail-in ballots. they rejected hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots.

it is hard to assume the general election went on without a hitch. i want to listen to law professor jonathan turley and get your response on the other side. >> so there is no reason not to look at the allegations, to give 71 million people who voted for trump that sense of assurance that nothing untoward occurred and that their votes really did count. >> trace: you would think with past problems in voting with mail-in ballots the biden campaign would also want this fair and accurate account because it gives legitimacy to their campaign as well, right? >> not extent there are credible allegations that there was fraud or miscounting it is in the interest of all americans to insure the count was fair and accurate. look, federal and state judges in the coming days will be evaluating this evidence and looking at what the trump campaign has as far as voter fraud goes, as far as counting errors go.

they will adjudicate it. that's how our system works. all i'm saying for the trump campaign to have a hope of pulling this one out they can't be thinking small ball at this point. the numbers are too big and they need massive widespread evidence of fraud in order to have a fighting chance here, trace. >> trace: you talk about small ball. rudy giuliani was saying yesterday and was pressed and thinks they do have and will have enough evidence to maybe overturn pennsylvania. as you said, small ball they need to think big. they don't need like back in 2000 where they needed florida to flip. they need more than pennsylvania. they need four states. it appears to be a heavy lift at this time. >> it absolutely is a heavy lift. i've litigated these types of cases. it is hard enough if you are trying to change 200 or 300 votes or get them counted in your candidate's favor. if you are talking about thousands of votes and then you are talking about pulling this off in multiple states it is an uphill battle. we'll see what the campaign can come up with.

it is a formidable challenge they face. >> trace: we mentioned the 2000 bush versus gore thing. vogel was a lawyer for the recount then had this to say about the high bar. watch. >> if they can show some sort of systemic concern about fraud you still have to get to not only win the factual argument but get a court to look at a large enough block of votes that it is going to affect the outcome. so it is a fairly high bar in this case. >> the phrase that's key is to get a court to look at this because you know that federal courts are really resistant to get involved in state elections. >> they are resistant and the fact is the fact that they declared biden the winner is a tougher challenge for the trump campaign. the optics are getting so strong and narrative getting so strong that courts will be

increasingly reluctant to get in and why the trump campaign needed to move fast on this one. every day that passes i think it becomes increasingly difficult to capture the attention of a court and try to persuade them to change the outcome. >> trace: they believe they can file 10 lawsuits this week alone. good to see you. thank you. >> sandra: big breakthrough coronavirus vaccine. dow futures surging nearly 1700 points. could reach a big milestone in the u.s. stock market. we're watching it. maria bartiromo will be here on that live next. plus this. >> i'm grateful for the role i've played in the game show world and if i've been able to bring a smile to someone's face or to make a difference in their life, hey, it's been a good day for me. >> sandra: what a life it was for alex trebek. the host of jeopardy passed

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>> trace: bottom of the hour. time for top stories. the trump campaign filing additional lawsuits alleging voter fraud in several swing states and growing calls for the president to concede the election. >> sandra: president-elect joe biden announcing his coronavirus task force, as the u.s. reported over 105,000 positive cases on sunday alone. quickly approaching 10 million confirmed cases since the pandemic began. >> trace: tropical storm eta bringing heavy rains and flooding to south florida with officials warning about potential life threatening floods throughout the week. download the fox news app, take a picture of the qr code at the bottom of the screen to get

started. >> sandra: the dow is set to open 15 seconds from now. it is expected to surge on positive coronavirus vaccine news. watch the big board as it opens this morning. we'll bring in maria bartiromo on this news. pfizer and its partner announced that its vaccine proved to be more than 90% effective in their latest trials. look at this. almost 30,000 on the dow this morning with this news topping 1600 points the initial gain on that breakthrough. good morning, maria. >> good morning, sandra. absolutely. when you see a move like what we're seeing this morning on wall street, it just speaks to how desperate investors are to get any sign that we will get back to normal at some point in the way that we were living with restaurants and services, hotels, travel, airlines, all getting back to business. all of those groups are soaring

along with the dow jones industrial average up 1600 points. i will point out that pfizer is looking to get emergency oousiage -- usage to try this drug and see wider usage by the end of november. when president trump first told us that he wanted to have a vaccine out in the market before the end of the year, very much debate about that happened and people laughed at him and said there is no way this can happen. in fact we're seeing this take place and markets are reacting. if we do in fact see this drug on the market and start to get distributed in a wide way, then we will continue to see some of these groups that were so beaten down because of the pandemic and lockdown come back to life. want to point out not only are you seeing a huge move in pfizer and the dow jones

industrial average but the airlines and cruise lines up. all signals that investors are hoping this is the beginning of what will be more signs of getting back to normal. >> sandra: such a great point. airlines are surging double digits. in some cases 25%, delta, american, united, carnival cruise lines up double digits right now. it appears the market is reading this as the real deal. not just the real deal, a best case scenario. i have three wall street analyst notes i've gone through this morning in front of me to see where wall street stood on this. rbc is saying best case scenario hoping for 60% effectiveness rate. we're talking about 90%. morgan stanley this morning saying this is a very strong report and then others say they would have been happen with 76.9% effectiveness. fauci said he was shooting for

50 to 60%. 90% is blowing away expectations. i can also report that the u.s. stock market is now hitting a record high. s&p 500 at a record high on this news this morning. the timing is interesting, too. here we are a week after election day, maria. >> we'll see if it holds in terms of more buy-in that we'll see a vaccine get distributed. remember, the next test is will people take it? for so long we've been talking about the questions around the vaccine and whether or not people are going to be willing to take the vaccine and go back to work and get back to normal. certainly the signal and the message from the markets today is that this is happening and we will in fact return. i'll also point out some of the stay at home stocks like zoom, for example, which is up 200% since march of this year, is down about 15% today. all the stay at home stocks,

they are trading lower on this news. >> sandra: of course, if the vaccine is available you can start to think about getting some of those people back into the office. not just the s&p 500 making record high. now the dow also making record highs this morning. maria, we're looking at 30,000 potentially today if we see a couple hundred more point gain. the pfizer chainman and ceo on this news i will quote him directly. i think we can see light at the end of the tunnel. that is just amazing, maria. it's also important to point out that pfizer's trial was not part of operation warp speed. as "the new york times" report details this morning and quotes the head of research for pfizer, that researcher dr. jansen distanced herself from operation warp speed saying they did not take any federal money to help pay for research and development saying we were

never part of warp speed. we've never taken any money from the u.s. government or anyone. it's really interesting to take all this in, maria. >> the broader point is that once president trump made sure that getting a vaccine was a priority, told the world we're working to get one in the market before year end the entire pharmaceutical sector rose to the issue and started putting their own work on this on fast forward. that's what you are seeing throughout. you don't have these kinds of successes in some of the other names but certainly there has been high praise for things like the regeneron product, what moderna and eli lilly. the whole point of getting into a speed where you want to get this as soon as possible was a theme throughout the industries.

whether or not pfizer is part of the warp speed and taking government money. >> sandra: i'm going through the details of the vaccine. you think about the timeline considering some of the stay at home stocks you are noting are down during the huge rally, maria, what it means for getting people back to work and back into restaurants. having people travel again. they are saying that the protection from this vaccine -- this is after an interview with the head of pfizer -- that the protection is achieved with the vaccine 28 days after the initial vaccination. so when you consider the timing that it is going to take, maria, to get this out to market, get people vaccinated in any reasonable amount talking about the general population, maria, what does the timeline look like when you have so many people already have stay at homework orders well into the spring of 2021? >> well, i think it's very important not to mistake the

euphoria on wall street for anything more than the wall street community is optimistic about the future. no one is expecting that we're back to normal by the end of this year. or that we are back to normal even in the first quarter. again, we need to have this vaccine distributed and we need to have a willingness on the part of people to actually take it. i'm still on my same time frame that we aren't going to see real normalcy until the middle of 2021 at a minimum. however, just knowing that the vaccine is there, beginning to get available will do -- go a long way in terms of creating optimism. after we get through the rally we're talking about right now, we're also talking about what is going to happen in the next two months with the two georgia senate races and the runoff situation going on on january 5th. that is going to be the market mover for this market. if you see the democrats take control of the senate, all bets are off for this rally. then that will mean that if in

fact joe biden tries to push through some of those policies, the progressive policies of bernie sanders like $4 1/2 trillion of tax increases and big government program on energy, the green new deal you'll see a sizeable sell-off. i think we can celebrate and have euphoria now about what's to come with the vaccine but the importance of those georgia senate races as far as wall street is concerned could not be underestimated. >> sandra: we know we're expected to hear the task force on the part of the biden administration, the president-elect is he pekted to name names on the team. transition team put on the statement after the vaccine. people still dying from covid and we need to take action on immediate actions and working on calling for a mask mandate. the reality for now and the next few months. today's announcement promises the chance to change that next year. the task before us now remain

the same. we'll see what comes from that transition team as far as the coronavirus task force and who they will name to it. great to have you here on this big news this morning. thank you. trace. >> trace: we'll have more on this encouraging news when dr. nicole saphier joins us on a possible timeline of the vaccine and other questionss. alexandria ocasio-cortez wants washington to say no to trump administration policies as progressive wrestle with backlash from the democratic party. >> when we come out swinging not 48 hours after tuesday, when we don't even have solid data yet pointing fingers and telling each other what to do it deepens the division in the party. ♪ we're still having fun, and you're still the one. ♪

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ocasio-cortez looking to cancel anyone associated with president trump apparently striking fear to a white house official. we'll bring in mary anne marsh and brian avila. >> is anyone archiving the trump people who when they try to downplay their -- i see many deleted tweets, writings and photos in the future. anonymous white house sours said this. the idea a sitting member of congress wants to purge from society and ostracize us. it should scare the american people more than it scares me. david, your thoughts on that back and forth. >> representative cortez took out moderate democrats with the election and now trying to take republicans out of the political process as we move toward governing. it is her only way to pass her

castro socialist government ideas is to tamp out any opposite voices. the good news is the republicans were quite successful on election night. let's go through it again. we have favored to win the u.s. senate. we'll pick up 10 to 12 more house seats. we added a governorship, republicans held every state legislative majority they had and gained two more in new hampshire. it was a resounding victory for our ideas and it must be noted that the effort that president trump and the trump campaign did to bring in minority voters, giving us some of our highest shares possible made those victories reality. >> trace: he makes a good point. the republican party, alexandria ocasio-cortez going after some republicans trying to cancel them. the republican party is well situated going into 2022.

your thoughts. >> let me make a better point. in 2016 democrats didn't have the house, white house or senate. in 2018 democrats won the house. -- in 2020 democrats won the white house and in january 5th democrats are two seats away from winning the senate. so every election since 2016 when donald trump went into the white house voters in this country are rejecting donald trump, rejecting republicans, and rejecting mitch mcconnell's obstructionism. mitch mcconnell will be senate majority leader until january 5th. donald trump will still be president on january 5th and the more they keep fighting and obstructing and doing the kinds of things they've done the last four years the bert it is for democrats. >> even in the democratic party you look at clyburn saying this progressive stuff is not working. he pointed to defunding the police saying it really hurt

jamie harrison's campaign against lindsey graham. here is the congressman and i'll get your thoughts again. >> that stuff hurt jamie and i spoke out against it a long time ago. i've always said that these headlines can kill a political effort. >> trace: everybody is trying to bring the party back into the center, david. >> as an italian american around the dinner table we never heard you are eating too much and around the progressives table in the u.s. house now they never say we're going too far. and with nancy pelosi probably having about a five or six vote majority, it is going to be very hard to govern when you have spanberger in virginia and texas and shrader in oregon somewhat moderate democrats if they want to be reelected in 2022 can't be giving key

progressive ideas their vote unless they will switch parties. that really is the choice that five or six democrats have. >> trace: mary anne marsh, last word to you. >> the fact is it wasn't taken seriously were the targ done by republicans using phrases like defunding the police, using phrases like socialism. democrats didn't take it seriously enough and fight back against it because democrats weren't saying that. they were saying we're for the police. socialisms claims. >> they were saying defund the police in portland, oregon, a lot of these protestors were saying. >> name me one member of congress who used that language. >> trace: the antifa people. >> one member of congress. >> trace: political members, political members in portland, in seattle, police chiefs up and down the west coast were using that. >> you can't i understand. >> trace: good to see you. thank you both.

>> sandra: the trump campaign moving ahead on filing legal challenges in several key states as the president looks to overturn the results of the election. how some of those battles are now shaping up. plus america mourning the loss of long-time jeopardy host alex trebek. we look back on his life and legacy next. and let the grill monitor your food. it also turns into an air fryer. bring outdoor grilling flavors indoors with the grill that grills for you.

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>> sandra: sad news from the entertainment world as fans mourn the death of alex trebek, the "jeopardy" host who was a fixture in american living rooms for over 30 years passed away at the age of 80 on sunday. last year trebek announced he was battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer but continued hosting the show. the shows taped now.

are there still more episodes remaining with him as host? >> yeah, despite the diagnosis, sandra, he continued working so the show will air through december 25th with trebek as host. in 37 years he missed only one of 8,000 episodes when he switched places with pat sajak at wheel of fortune on april fool's day. likable, genuine, sarcastic he turned a game show into must-watch tv. he wanted to do movies but was too good at what he did. >> you can get pigeon holed by producers in the industry. he is a game show host and all of a sudden there is no exit. >> trace: ratings hit a 14-year high as trebek was frequently in pain because of the chemotherapy. he vowed to keep working for those who gave him the will to survive.

>> i plan to beat the low survival rate statistics for this disease. truth told, i have to. under the terms of my contract i have to host jeopardy for three more years. >> trace: it won 35 emmy awards, a model of integrity and decorum. alex trebek's courage, grace and strength inspired millions and awed those who knew him. a tremendous loss for family, friends and countless viewers. former contestant ken jennings. alex was just the best at what he did. he was also a lovely and deeply decent man. i'm grateful for every minute i got to spend with him. from big winner, it was one of the great privileges of my life to spend time with this courageous man while he thought the battle of his life. he is survived by a wife and three children. back to you. >> sandra: ken jennings in his reflections talking about how

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>> sandra: fox news alert on positive news over a potential breakthrough with a covid vaccine from pfizer, they are now reporting that its vaccine has shown a 90% effectiveness rate. more on that in a moment. first here is what else is happening inside "america's newsroom" at this hour. >> president trump is digging in his heels over the weekend refusing to concede this election promising a barrage of legal battles likely to start in pennsylvania. he is relaunching the campaign rallies to focus on this ongoing litigation with significant campaign staff. >> the thing that's going to keep perhaps joe biden moderate. that is the senate because if the senate is still in the

hands of the republicans, he is going to have to work with mitch mcconnell to get anything done. >> it all comes down to these twin runoffs in the state of georgia on january 5th. >> "jeopardy" fans are mourning the loss of beloved host alex trebek after his death from cancer. >> sandra: fox news alert now a new milestone in the race for a possible covid-19 vaccine. welcome back to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom" on this monday morning. i'm sandra smith, hi, trace. >> trace: good morning. i'm trace gallagher. pfizer now saying the latest trials are showing its possible vaccine to be 90% effective bringing it one step closer to getting cleared for widespread use. let's bring in fox news contributor dr. nicole saphier. i want to put it up. great to see you. right up your alley and we can't wait to get your take on this. the yale immuneologist who said this is really a spectacular

number. i wasn't expecting it to be this high. i was preparing myself for something like 55%. 55%, 60% is what a lot of these epidemiologists were looking at. >> we're eight months into the worst pandemic in a century. welcome, positive news we just needed over 50% for it to get approval. 90% exceeds expectations. not to say it won't change as time goes on. however this really does beat the normal flu vaccine and is on par with some of our childhood vaccinations that reach 90 to 95% efficacy. great news. still a lot of questions that need to be answered. this is preliminary data. we don't know how it works in certain subgroups like the elderly. we don't know if it prevents

severe disease yet and also don't know how long the immunity lasts. there are still a lot of questions as we've seen antibodies to coronavirus have decreased in some people. we've seen some reports of repeat infections. so this is still questions that need to be answered. however, it is great to hear that this vaccine is showing such great results. it also bodes well for moderna. they will probably have encouraging results soon. pfizer has also said by the end of 2020 they will have manufactured enough vaccine to vaccinate 15 to 20 million americans. it is about also manufacturing it and then distributing it. >> trace: you mentioned the flu vaccine earlier. the centers for disease control average 40 to 60% accuracy rate or whatever the term is there. that's one of those things we

have relied on that for decades, the flu vaccine. when you have 90%, it's a stunning number to hear. timeline, dr. saphier. you talk about timelines. they were owe looking for emergency use on this thing. what are we looking at four, i and the vulnerable people of america to get this vaccine. >> pfizer has said they will be applying for the eua through the fda by the end of november and that again they will have 15 to 20 million doses by the end of 2020. the first people will get them by the end of december, early january will be healthcare workers and other high-risk individuals. i would imagine for the general population you will maybe see it spring 2021, extending into early summer. however, pfizer is not the only one in the race here. there are a lot of other companies. we'll expect over the next month or so to be seeing more

data coming in from these other companies. they are already doing the parallel manufacturing through operation warp speed. again i think we'll start seeing a lot more encouraging news forthcoming. >> trace: i want a play the sound bite from governor cuomo about this. i want you to listen to this and get your take on the other side. >> the bad news is that it's about two months before joe biden takes over and that means this administration is going to be implementing a vaccine plan. the vaccine plan is very important. it is probably the most ambitious undertaking since covid began. >> trace: a lot of people say the vaccine plan is actually in the process of going forward. your final thoughts on that, dr. saphier. >> it is one thing to say follow the science. you are also politicizing science on the other hand. governor cuomo said he wouldn't be giving these vaccinations until he did his own

independent review negating the experts. he is poll itizing science a bit that way. president trump has mobilized military efforts and put forth a distribution plan in place. the mrna vaccines require some very careful storage. it will be precarious moving forward. i do believe that we continue to put together the public and private sector and we'll get as many of these vaccines out to the public as possible. >> trace: bottom line is we're getting close. dr. saphier, great insight. thank you. >> sandra: thank you, trace. president trump still refusing to concede and promising more legal action over what he says is voter fraud and misconduct in several key battleground states. the president's republican allies saying the fight is not over yet. but despite this joe biden took the stage saturday night claiming victory and calling for unity after the contentious election. >> all those of you who voted

for president trump, i understand the disappointment tonight. it is time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again. >> president trump should not concede. we're down to 10,000 votes in georgia. he is going to win north carolina. >> sandra: griff jenkins. any evidence president trump may be ready to concede? >> good morning. no, just the opposite. the president is promising to wage a legal war on the election results alleging widespread voter fraud in election irregularities without any evidence being presented in any court as of yet. but the president's attorney rudy giuliani says they will start this morning by doing that in pennsylvania with more states to follow like michigan, wisconsin, and georgia. listen. >> it really would be wrong for him at this point to concede.

there is strong evidence that this was an election that at least three or four states and possibly 10 they were stolen. >> but the attorney general in pennsylvania is prepared and he is pushing back. >> donald trump can say whatever he wants but we just had an i election. an election that was secure, an election where the votes are tallied and a proper winner will be certified. >> then there is this. just in the last hour, sandra, fox news is learning we've been reporting that the president was planning to hold campaign style rallies to talk about the ongoing litigation because the campaign told us that. now that same official telling fox news the president does not intend to hold any such rallies. if anything, it might be an informal boat parade sort of thing. we'll continue to fol he it, sandra. >> sandra: what sort of reaction are we hearing from

the biden transition team as the president still refuses to concede at this point? >> they are simply moving on in more ways than one. first yesterday the campaign calling on the current gsa administrator to certify the election so they can get access to resources. but the gsa says that they simply are not doing that yet. they have to make an ascertainment. we shall see where that goes. meanwhile today you have the transition team announcing their covid-19 advisory board in the wake of that pfizer breaking news, the president-elect biden put out a statement expressing cautious optimism. even if that is achieved and some americans are vaccinated later this year it will be many more months before there is widespread vaccination in this country. clearly president-elect biden taking a leadership position. we shall see. interesting to see what vice

president mike pence has to say at a task force briefing today at the white house. >> sandra: grief jenkins live in wilmington for us this morning. thank you. >> trace: democrats may be on the way to flipping georgia from red to blue but both of the state senate races are heading for runoffs and the balance of power on capitol hill very much at stake. jonathan serrie is live for us at the georgia state house in atlanta. jonathan, good morning to you. >> joe biden leads president trump here in georgia by a very thin margin but the state is still counting ballots as we speak. the trump campaign has appointed georgia congressman doug collins to lead the recount team in the peach state. he lost a 20 candidate special primary to fill the unexpired term of retired u.s. senator johnny isaacson. that race is heading to a january 5 runoff between warnock and the georgia

governor' ace pointed senator. the other seat is in play with ossoff challenging perdue. the georgia races could affect the balance of power in washington a spokesperson says now that donald trump can't bail out perdue's campaign he is failing to figure out a strategy. they'll vote perdue out in january and the perdue campaign says chuck schumer, stacey abrams and radical democrats see john ossoff as their pathway to push through radical policies like defunding the police. political analysts predict these will be some of the most expensive u.s. senate races in history because the balance of power in washington is in play. trace. >> trace: jonathan, thank you. >> sandra: president-elect joe biden visited the church

cemetery where several family members of his are buried including his son beau. he also paid respects to his first wife and daughter who died in a car crash back in 1972. >> trace: new york state's positive test rate hitting the lieest level in five months for coronavirus as the nation set an all-time record on saturday. governor cuomo is calling for continued vigilance with thousands of people testing positive over the weekend bringing the state's positivity rate above 2%. that's still among the lowest rates of any state. >> sandra: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez says she is rethinking her career in politics. why she says the democratic party is partially to blame. plus president trump launching new legal battles over the results of the election in several battleground states. what does governor mike huck -- huckabee have to say about

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congresswoman ocasio-cortez might be rethinking her career in politics. she just won her reelection race she wasn't sure if she wanted to run again. it's the stress, lack of support from your own party. your own party thinking are you the enemy. i'm serious when i tell people the odds of me running for higher office and the odds of me just going off trying to start a homestead somewhere are probably the same. i don't even know if i want to be in politics. >> do you believe that you have enough to actually change the fate of the election? >> well, i think we have enough to change pennsylvania. the pennsylvania election was a disaster and i think the first lawsuit will be in pennsylvania. either michigan or georgia and over the course of the week we should get it all pulled together. >> sandra: rudy giuliani confident as he and the rest of

the president's legal team push forward for more lawsuits alleging fraud and election misconduct in several states. let's bring in former governor mike huckabee. so how far do you think the president will go with this and how far should he go with this? >> he ought to go as far until we know exactly what happened. how was it that 450,000 ballots in five states only had joe biden and not one single person down ballot even marked? that's highly unusual. when al gore lost the election in 2000 it focused on one state two counties. we're talking about five states and hundreds of counties. i don't know why everybody is in a rush before we get the votes tabulated. seems like there is a real effort to declare this over and i don't think the president has any reason to just walk away,

throw up his hands and say that's it t media has made a decision and we're just going to live with it. 71 million people voted for him. i think he owes it to all of us to make sure the election was fair. i'm not saying it wasn't. i don't know. but we need to know. we have to have an answer to some of these questions that linger. >> sandra: as far as the timing is concerned to follow up, at what point do you have to produce solid evidence that this happened before you take this to more states and you increase the number of lawsuits? >> the most important thing is to be able to get to the evidence. as long as people are sitting on it not letting the observers from the republican side even look at what was going on, have a chance to see the voting machines, examine it. we don't have the evidence so when people say produce the evidence, you have to get to the evidence to produce it. as soon as they open that up and start letting those things happen, sam alito from the supreme court ordered

pennsylvania to segregate those ballots that had come in after the deadline. that's clearly an issue that has to be resolved. it is not just for this election. it's for the future as well. >> sandra: as far as what to watch for from the transition team and the new biden administration here is kate beddingfield on progressives. watch. >> i think that vice president biden campaigned on -- it is the boldest biggest climate plan ever put forward by a nominee running for president. now a president-elect. he will make good on those commitments. >> sandra: so what do we see eventually from a biden presidency, governor? >> it's almost like a skits owe friend i can transition. on one hand he says i want to be president of everybody. i want to serve those people who didn't vote for me and yet for four years we've had nothing but a resistance. then his campaign manager comes

out and says we'll be very progressive. we'll ignore half the country and their votes and their views and their values because we're charging forward. so i'm a bit confused as to who is running the future administration if there is going to be one. we don't again know for certain. if that's the case, is it joe biden or is it the people around him who are going to be making the philosophical decisions of the policy? >> sandra: so that point here is jim -- >> now he will put together a staff, a cabinet that will reflect what he wants his administration to be about. he has been vice president for eight years, been in the senate for more than 40 years, so he knows this country very well. i know him very well. and i will trust his judgment. >> sandra: perhaps we'll start

to get a look today who he is assembling for his coronavirus tasks force. ultimately for his administration and some of those key roles. what would your expectations be, governor? >> i think he is probably going to look at a lot of retreads from the obama administration. he knows them and is comfortable with. if he does that he will get an enormous pushback from the likes of aoc where you had the story. she may quit politics she is so frustrated it is not going all her way. there is a real division within the democratic party. something they will have to try to cope with as well as the division across the nation. the far left are a little bit left of center left of the party and there is a real struggle that will be going on there. if joe biden doesn't put a bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and others he will get enormous pushback. i say if in fact it turns out that he will take office in

january. >> sandra: the "wall street journal" editorial board is writing about joe biden's time to heal. he will now have to hold off his party's left. he says mr. biden won't say this publicly but he will be fortunate if republicans retain control of the senate with the two georgia runoffs in january. he will need the leverage of mitch mcconnell to steer a middle course against house democrats and the sanders, warren wing in the senate. it is an interesting thought the "wall street journal" puts out there this morning especially in the wake of these comments by senator chuck schumer, listen. >> now we take georgia and then we change the world. now we take georgia, and then we change america. >> sandra: now we take georgia and then we change the world, we change america he ultimately said if those comments there, governor. >> i kind of like america.

i like the liberty that we have. i like the fact that we have a system that gives people who grew up like i did, very poor, an opportunity to make good. i don't know that we want to change america so much that we don't recognize it. we've got some people who are ignore its history, ignoring its basic values, who want to change it. i'm not sure that's a change that all of us are ready to embrace if it's the change that people like bernie sanders, aoc and chuck schumer are pushing for. thanks but no thanks. we'll keep the america that has served people for a long, long time and given the world a light of liberty. that's an america i hope we don't lose. >> sandra: governor mike huckabee always great to chat with you. thank you. >> trace: tropical storm eta slamming south florida with heavy winds, flooding range and dangerous storm surge. remembering alex trebek and his long tenure as the host of the

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>> trace: top stories. drug maker pfizer announcing its coronavirus vaccine is 90% effective and could be available for emergency use before the end of the year. >> sandra: heavy wind and rain slamming parts of south florida as tropical storm eta is off

the coast and could strengthen to a hurricane later today. >> trace: the federal government facing new reports claiming fraud in the paycheck protection program claiming tens of thousands of ineligible company may have gotten a piece of the loans. the program was meant to help smaller businesses stay afloat during the pandemic. for more stories and many others take a picture of the qr code at the bottom of your screen to get set up. >> sandra: president trump's legal team is moving ahead with plans to challenge vote counts in several states starting with a lawsuit in pennsylvania. grady trimble is reporting from the fox business network in philadelphia this morning. grady, good morning. >> good morning. that lawsuit is expected to be filed as early as today. here in philadelphia the vote count continues and resumed at 9:00 this morning. that count and the access poll watchers got while trying to observe it are expected to be challenged in this lawsuit. in a press conference over the

weekend the trump campaign outlined other parts of its arguments specifically allegations out of allegany county near pittsburgh. the first that republican observers were barred from watching the count for a full 24 hours. the second that a deceased woman voted by mail. >> when you go to the secretary of state's website today it says she voted in this election effective november 2, 2020. a full nine days after she passed away. >> we should point out that the secretary of state's website says the vote was recorded, not specified whether it was counted in the final tally. allegany elections officials tell us they'll be looking into that claim further today. they also responded to the claim -- to the philadelphia inquirer, responded to the fact that the claim is that the poll watchers weren't able to get

access to the vote count for a full 24 hours. here is that response. amy downs, a spokesperson for allegany county elections says at no point were canvassing operations conducted without observers having the opportunity to see the process and the counting. finally, back here in philadelphia, al schmidt, republican tasked with overseeing the election process told 60 minutes he has received death threats over the election but reiterated there is no cheating going on here. >> sandra: thank you, grady. >> i believe president trump still has a path to victory. that path is to count every single legal vote that was cast but also not to cast any vote fraudulent acast and we have a legal process to determine what's legal and what isn't. >> trace: people still say

president trump has a path to win the elections and there will be more lawsuits in several states. guy louis, great to see you. ted cruz pointed to this software glitch in one of pennsylvania's smaller counties. it's amazing to me you look for evidence and that seems to be when you have a lot of republican votes admittedly going to joe biden that has been correct. it seems to be the kind of evidence that people are looking for to kind of hold onto in this. your thoughts on that. >> trace, you are exactly right. this is really to make the kind of claim that would require either a state or not the entire nation but certainly a state to revote you will have to come up with some hard and fast facts. there are two issues here. there is the law, which the supreme court will eventually look at i predict. then there will be facts.

but you can bet, trace, there is a flurry of lawsuits filed late last week, over the weekend and there will be more today, tomorrow and throughout the week. >> trace: you go back to 2000 and we look at that and we were trying to flip the democrats were trying to flip florida, right? one state all focused on florida. all encompassing. this time we're trying to flip at least four states. miranda devine writes the following. trump's team will have to provide concrete evidence of systemic fraud enough to flip the election result in enough states to make a difference to the outcome. it is a very high bar. so i wouldn't be holding my breath but it is 2020. stranger things have happened. look, we know back in the primaries, guy, there were multitudes of problems with these mail-in ballots and hundreds of thousands of these things were rejected. anything is possible. >> it is and it is 2020. so you are right, though. in terms of you will remember in 2000 we were down in palm

beach, you will remember the judge folding up that card trying to determine whether it was a chad or a hanging chad and what the voters' intent was. here is a different issue. you have georgia, you have arizona, you've got nevada, you've got wisconsin, michigan, you've got states that either biden won either by just the slimest of margins. so if you go into those states and you can establish, which there are some serious allegations here, if you can establish that either voters had passed away or there was fraud or signatures or they as a result of software glitches that ballots should have been counted to president trump and they were president biden you will have real problems here, trace. it could throw the election. >> trace: we appreciate you giving us a tour of your home

there, guy. i wanted to check and see do you worry at all about republicans? you talk about making their case. do you worry at all? do you think there is a concern that republicans won't have the access to get some of the evidence they need? >> ultimately that's a great question. ultimately this is going to wind up in the supreme court. there is no question in my mind in terms of both access and in terms of procedure. and frankly, trace, that's exactly why so much effort, so much time, so much energy was put into this last supreme court justice. and you saw how that went. how contested and contentious that was. but i believe -- i truly believe that look, if you go back -- al gore was given, what, almost two months to contest his election? eventually he conceded. but i don't think you can fault president trump for at least wanting to make sure that every

vote was counted that was proper and that was legal and that was lawful. what's wrong with that? >> trace: i want to play this from south carolina senator lindsey graham talking about more than just the outcome. watch this. >> if republicans don't challenge and change the u.s. election system, there will never be another republican president elected again. president trump should not concede. >> trace: you have to fight to live on is the mantra there, guy. >> i tell you one thing, too, trace, if we've learned anything these past 3 1/2 or four years you can bet the house that president trump is a fighter, he doesn't give up, he is more than willing and able to go to court, and contest claims. we've seen that over and over and over again. and expect to see it here as well. >> trace: guy lewis, always good to see you, sir. thank you.

>> sandra: special honor for a vietnam war hero. private first class bruce carter was posthumously awarded the medal of honor and laid to rest last week at arlington national cemetery. his 93-year-old mother witnessed it. he was buried in florida in 1969. he was killed when he threw his body over a grenade, sacrificing himself to save his fellow marines. he was 19 years old. remarkable story, trace, remarkable man honored so appropriately. >> trace: we see these types of stories a lot. you think we're talking about different issues now, we talk about a lot of what's going on in the election and you think what led up to this and the wars that have been fought and people who dedicated their lives to this. a lot of times of year you need to think and really respect what the military people in this country have done for us. >> sandra: a hero, sacrificed

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everyone sharing their stories about this man beloved by nation. that wonderful game show "jeopardy". >> you're right. the nation totally divided right now but i think that everybody felt the same way when they heard about alex trebek's death yesterday. how many people can say in their lifetime they achieved the status of being a staple in millions of american households? when you close your eyes you can hear his voice and know what it sounds like. he provided such unique fun, wholesome entertainment for decades as the host of "jeopardy" since 1984. it was really surprising when he announced his stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis in march of last year and continued to work and wrote a memoir over the summer. he will be remembered as the host of "jeopardy" for 37 seasons but i think his bravery that he showed in his final days also leaves a lasting memory. >> sandra: folks far and wide are weighing in and remembering

and sharing stories of alex trebek including ken jennings. the big rock star of "jeopardy". he really looked up to alex trebek and said this. alex wasn't just the best ever at what he did he was a lovely and deeply decent man and grateful for every minute i got to spend with him. he was talking about the advice he used to get from trebek and he talked about the commercial breaks and said while he always maintained professionalism he was the funny uncle. always professional but always made us laugh and that was really one of his big memories of alex trebek. >> i think one of the things that everybody loved about him is that he had that charismatic dry witt. he was such a gentleman on tv when sometimes it seems like gentleman are few and far between. the last time they'll air the

show with alex as host will be christmas day. they won't announce a replacement just yet. he was the show. he was asked who he thought should be the next host. he said somebody smarter and younger than him. so he nominated betty white as a joke. may not be such a bad idea. >> sandra: we hear from not just people here at home but leaders across the world. canadian prime minister justin trudeau. we lost an icon. a love for trivia. my deepest condolences to his family, friends and all mourning this tremendous loss. you think looking back over all these decades how many people he did bring together around the television set. whether he was at home or work or whatever it was he brought people together and carley, i remember in one of his final interviews talking about just his goal is to always bring a smile to people's faces and he

certainly did that. >> so much has changed since 1984 when he started hosting the show. yet it is still a beloved and successful show to this day. as for his legacy, sandra, i love this. fox news asked in january how he wanted to be remembered and he said he wants to be remembered as a nice guy and the kind of quiz show host that he always seemed to be rooting for the contestant and i think he achieved that goal. >> sandra: just an amazing person and so many people sharing stories about alex trebek this morning. passed away yesterday at the age of 80. carley, thank you. >> thanks, sandra.

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>> sandra: an instagram model was found dead in mexico after traveling to guatemala la har yeah. her body was found in a canal. no word if there are signs of violence. prosecutors have launched an investigation locally. >> trace: the senate kick starting its lame duck session with a long to do list. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell wants to pass more coronavirus relief and a new package of spending bills before the end of the year. chad pergram live on capitol hill. what can we expect in the weeks ahead? >> sometimes it's easier to get things done during a lame duck congress. sometimes it's harder. mitch mcconnell made no bones about it he wants to do another coronavirus bill. he is in the driver's seat right now. he may prefer to get something done under the trump administration rather than wait to january. one senator wanting a smaller

bill is mitt romney of utah. >> conservative principles are still on the ascendence in this country. american doesn't want to sign up for the green new deal or getting rid of coal, oil, gas, or medicare for all. >> house speaker nancy pelosi has taken the lead in coronavirus talks. she negotiated on a daily basis with the secretary of treasury on a larger 2.2 trillion bill. mcconnell wants something mortar geted especially have a good jobs figure friday. with democratic losses in the house there are questions as to whether pelosi would take a smaller deal. >> no, no, it doesn't appeal to me at all. they still have not agreed to crush the virus. if you don't crush the virus we're still going to have to be dealing with the consequences of the virus. >> here is what they have to do. they have to fund the government. the deadline is december 11th. they also have to wrestle with the debt ceiling raising it or suspending it and they also

have to deal with the defense authorization bill. trace. >> trace: curious, chad. a lot of buzz on capitol hill about the working relationship between joe biden and mitch mcconnell. >> yeah, they actually were pretty good friends. there was a very striking moment in late december 2016 where mitch mcconnell renamed part of the 21st century cures act after beau biden. we have heard a lot about hunter biden. beau succumbed to cancer. there is a cordial relationship. did mcconnell have any outreach to the biden transition team and they don't have anything just yet. >> trace: chad pergram live on capitol hill. thank you. >> sandra: the washington nationals inviting president-elect joe biden to throw out the first pitch on opening day. twitter the team said they're excited to continue a longstanding tradition which began with president william howard taft back in 1910. they're set the host the new

york mets april 1. >> trace: a beatdown in tampa bay. the saints beat the buccaneers 38-3. did you see the game last night? . ways as one sided as they get. drew brees throwing for four touchdowns in the victory and you move to los angeles down to the wire there as well. chargers quarterback throws what appears to be the game-winning touchdown with no time left but the officials then later ruled the receiver did not have control of the ball. the las vegas raiders, used to be the los angeles raiders back in their hometown and they won it 31-26. i happen to be a charger fan, a little bit of heartbreaking there on that one, sandra. the bottom line is the chargers, the bolts cannot catch a break. that's for sure.

>> sandra: my goodness. a do over after that for tom brady. >> trace: there was a drop of a pass. >> sandra: pfizer making major news in the fight over the coronavirus. its vaccine trial more than 90% effective and that news this morning is sending the u.s. stock market skyrocketing. the latest from wall street and brand-new records being set. reaction from health secretary alex azar. he will be our guest live coming up next hour. with newday's va streamline refi, there's no appraisal, no income verification and no out of pocket costs. let newday help you use your va benefits to save $250 a month, that's $3000 a year. one call is all it takes.

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latest on the surge on wall street. lauren, heck of a rally we're seeing on wall street as we await more details on this news, wall street is reading this as a very great thing and wonderful development. >> yeah. the market for one likes this. i think, sandra, the quote that sums it up perfectly is that came from the ceo of pfizer saying, i quote, today is a great day for science and humanity. but i want to start where trace left off. this vaccine is 90% effective. that's more than most people imagined. now the other question mark remaining is the safety of it. pfizer does plan to apply for emergency use authorization from the fda. the third week of november. so we're talking about late next week already we might be on our way to a safe and effective vaccine for 25 million people worldwide. i say that because it's

two-dose shot. pfizer has lined up 50 million doses for 2020 globally and then an additional 1.3 billion next year. the importance of this can't be understated. this helps the world return to some sort of normal. that's why if you look at the cruise lines, the airlines, the movie theaters, retailers, they are surging. up 30% in some cases in market action today. people will be able to move around again without fear or infection. it is a big deal. the dow, the nasdaq, s&p 500 hitting new record highs on this news. we're looking at what could be the best day in seven months. oil is also up drastically today. what's not up and this just makes sense on a day like this, the stay at home stocks. pellton, netflix, amazon. you won't be on your coach hopefully as much as you are now in the near future. you will have the freedom and peace of mind to go out into

the world again and hopefully this is happening very soon, guys. >> sandra: the big question over the distribution of that vaccine, the approval first and foremost of it. we await all that. a positive development for sure. lauren, thank you. we'll have white house reaction coming up on "america's newsroom" this hour. health and human services secretary alex azar will be our guest and join us 45 minutes from now. big questions to him about what happens next. trace. >> trace: meantime this major breakthrough in the race for a coronavirus vaccine turning political. >> bad news is that it is about two months before joe biden takes over and that means this administration is going to be implementing a vaccine plan. they will have the private providers do it and that's going to leave out all sorts of communities that were left out the first time when covid ravaged them.

>> governor cuomo's comments comes at new york is seeing a big surge. he tweeted the number saturday at their highest point since june and adding 18 covid fatalities. they still have one of the lowest positivity rates in the country. >> sandra: if you thought the turmoil in washington would be over after the election thinks about. lots of big battles are brewing. president trump heading to court to president-elect biden's fights in his own party and against the gop as he prepares to set his administration's agenda. joining us now is chris bedford. senior editor at the federalist. great to see you this morning and thanks for being here. i want to read this to you because this is senator lindsey graham was on fox news radio and he has made a headline and i'll read it to you. he said he spoke with the president at length sunday. while encouraging him to continue with the ongoing 2020 legal efforts, he said quote i

would encourage president trump to not let this movement die. to consider running again. get your reaction to that as that was just said. >> i think that would be obvious. if he were to lose this election after all these recounts and lawsuits are over and people gearing up now for months of fights along with the president on this, if he were to leave there is no one else who could run against him in a primary. he could continue to be the largest and most active voice in conservative politics and in the populist movement on the right. he could absolutely still fill rallies. he would be able to celtic either at that point and raise money for his campaign and who would defeat him in a republican primary? absolute sweep. after four years of if joe biden becomes president after four years of fighting with the republican senate some of the redistricting that will go on in the republican districts. republican states. he will be well poised to win reelection. then again four years is a long

period of time for somebody older. like joe biden and trump are. we'll have to see where they are and if he wants to do it. >> sandra: jonathan turley was on friends this morning talking about what a difference a lawsuit might make. here is jonathan turley. listen. >> the president-elect biden is already proceeding with his transition. that's fine. there is no reason why we can't take some time and assure trump voters that these things have been looked at. is there a possibility of systemic errors? of course there is. we've had those problems in the past. >> sandra: do you see this battle leading anywhere? >> it will come down to the lawyers. the rnc deployed 1,000 across the country. campaign headquarters is taken over by them and the president has the will to fight and mitch mcconnell if they are worrying about finding enough votes for thom tillis in north carolina.

the question will be will they have the will to fight on the ground? a lot of difficulty they've faced. votes should never have been counted in pennsylvania they've lost track of them and might already be mixed in. some close watchers of the corruption are wondering if it's too late to stop it if it's gotten in the room and election poll watchers have been barred from some of the rooms. it will be a tough fight and come down to will the rank and file stay with it or we don't want to attach ourselves to the effort anymore and start to pull back and show fear. >> sandra: kate benningfield and the biden's team part said this on "meet the press" yesterday talking about joe biden's climate plan at the time but perhaps it gives a sense of direction. listen. >> i think that vice president biden campaigned on a progressive and aggressive agenda. he will make good on those commitments. >> sandra: what does this look like, assuming the biden administration, the transition team will start naming names

for his team? what do you expect from it? >> right now it will come down a lot to how the senate goes. we're in the two weeks to flatten the vote moment to figure out if the gop or democrats are in charge at the end. if the gop retains control a biden administration will come down to executive orders and some of the obama era executive orders. some of the stuff you'll see will be the paris climate accord. some of the more ambitious products. green new deal or changes in the healthcare system that require an effort in the legislature ising to be very difficult. the map looks better for republicans in two years. i don't see that going on. i don't think this couple ba yeah moment that people are claiming exists where everybody is coming together and the country is united because joe biden might have won the election doesn't seem to exist at all and i don't think it will last. >> sandra: great to catch up with you this morning. thank you. >> trace: fox news alert now. we're expecting to see president-elect biden and

senator harris soon as they get right down to business today receiving a covid-19 briefing before laying out their plans to fight the virus. peter doocy live for us in wilmington, delaware. peter. >> trace, good morning. just before the president-elect sat down with his covid-19 advisory board he put out a statement on that pfizer vaccine's progress. this is part what he said. i congratulate the brilliant women and men who helped produce this breakthrough and to give us such cause for hope. at the same time, it is also important to understand that the end of the battle against covid-19 is still months away. the co-chairs of this covid committee briefing biden today and for the rest of the transition are dr. david kessler who ran the fda in the 90s. dr. vivek murphy, surgeon general in the obama administration and marcella nunez smith a doctor from yale. these people are hints about who may be heading to the white

house. announcements about that and planning like that biden advisors are making moves toward a transition but the federal money for an official transition is still tied up because the gsa has not officially ascertained that biden won the election. now the transition team is trying to apply pressure on the gsa administrator to do that they can carry on. a transition spokesman told us last night america's nation until security and economic interests depend on the federal government signaling that the united states government will respect the will of the american people and engage in a smooth and peaceful transfer of power. we do expect to hear from biden and harris at some point after they received this briefing. he has not answered a single question since election day six days ago and as of right now we don't expect him to do that today, either. trace. >> trace: peter doocy live in wilmington.

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>> sandra: while the trump team heads to court challenging results in key states republicans and democrats are locked in a battle to control the senate with two republicans in georgia kelly loeffler and david perdue fighting to keep their seats. the balance of power on capitol hill could be decided by those two runoff races in january. jonathan serrie is live from atlanta on that. what are you hearing about political ad campaign the two sides are planning to launch? >> they will be expensive. as you mentioned the balance of power is at stake.

you'll have both parties spending lots of money on the ads. this is expected to be one of the most expensive and most contentious u.s. senate races, two of them going on here in georgia because of that. now, one of the candidates warnock in anticipation of negative attack ads preemptively launched his own humorous ads in hopes of preempting some of those attacks. watch this. >> he eats pizza with a fork and nie. he once stepped on a crack in the sidewalk and he even hates puppies. >> get ready, georgia, the negative ads are coming. >> warnock is challenging republican senator kelly loeffler appointed to fill the seat of isaac son who retired last year. during the primarily loveler

iran her own ad. >> did you know kelly loeffler is ranked the most conservative senator in america? >> more conservative than attila the hun. >> now as loeffler heads into a runoff with the democrats analysts say she is likely to remain focused on her conservative base. >> turnout is more important than persuasion at this point, i don't know how much she will try to appeal to moderate or centrist voters. >> similarly the race for georgia's other u.s. senate seat is focused on liberal and conservative themes are ossoff attacking perdue's efforts to repeal obamacare and protest test against police. it appears that both of these races are indeed heading to

runoffs on january 5th and so until then people in georgia can expect eight more weeks of these television ads. back to you. >> sandra: we'll be watching every minute leading up to all that. jonathan serrie, thank you. >> trace: a new "wall street journal" editorial lays out the stakes in the georgia runoff called a democratic controlled senate the gop's worst nightmare. bill mcgurn, former speech writer for george bush. there is a lot riding on this for conservatives. the runoff races in georgia. as ted cruz laid out. listen to him and i'll get your response. >> if we have a chuck schumer senate and joe biden presidency they will pack the u.s. supreme court, they will end the filibuster, they will pass massive tax increases, they will pass the green new deal destroying millions of jobs. >> trace: if they do take control of the senate do you think that democrats have an

appetite for these far left policies? >> absolutely. i think senator cruz is right. first of all that was the unity platform, right? they campaigned on it. second if you look at the people in the senate that would likely get these positions, bernie sanders, ron wyden, sherrod brown. these are not retiring people. they meant what they said and they are going to get some of it through if they get the senate. there is a little dilemma for joe biden. he had a lot of support from elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. they might be looking for cabinet positions. because they come from states where there are republican governors they would likely be replaced by republicans. the president might prefer they stay in the senate. but if they stay in the senate they will chair very important committees that have a lot to do with our taxes and spending. so that is why i think keeping

mitch mcconnell as majority leader would restore some balance. >> trace: what about the political ramifications here? even, bill, if they pick up one of these georgia seats, the republicans would still have a slight majority but then you have wild cards like susan collins in maine, lisa murcowski and mitt romney in utah. now you have this fine line where you don't have the pad that you had of 53, you have a very narrow margin and a lot of these things come down to the wire. >> yeah. i think in that case i believe that a president biden would probably get his court picks through and so forth. but on some of the others i'm not sure mitt romney will go for all the spending and so forth or even susan collins of some of the green new deal and so forth. remember, the spending is really out of control. even joe biden as a candidate criticized some of his fellow democrats for their unrealistic

assumptions about spending. again, a lot depends. i think if the democrats take the senate, a lot of this stuff will go through, no questions asked. i think if the republicans hold the senate, they will be able to not necessarily just block everything but temper some of it and work out a deal. >> trace: you touched on the "wall street journal" op-ed. consider the democrats poised to run key committees if they organize the senate. bernie sanders would run budget. sherrod brown of ohio with run banking. elizabeth warren would run the financial institution subcommittee. have fun, bankers. >> most of them supported joe biden, so they certainly would be getting what they deserve on this. look, people are policy, right? these people have very definite positions. they believe their positions and if they take the senate, they will see themselves as in

the position to get things done. the things done that they promised. so the question is whether joe biden -- in the case of a democratic senate the question is how much joe biden would want to push through and how much they will want to push through. mr. biden so far hasn't really pushed back. he hasn't shown that he is really willing to push back. it will be a fight either way. >> trace: it's a fair question. lastly, bill, i have to ask you on the breaking news this pfizer, this vaccine, 90% effectiveness. you look back. if this announcement had come out one week ago today, does it affect the election at all? last thoughts? >> i think it would. i mean, the margins are so narrow. but look, i'm a notre dame fan and i've watched a lot of games if they completed that pass or if the ref didn't call it out of bounds when it was inbounds. that is part of the game. and it is just would have,

could have, should have. it doesn't really help anything. i do think that it would have made a difference because covid was the leading issue against the president and he was accused of making up stories saying that a cure -- a vaccine is around the corner and now we see that it was. >> trace: in instant replay in politics. bill mcgurn. always good to see you, sir. thank you. >> sandra: thank you, bill. trace just mentioned it, a coronavirus vaccine breakthrough from pfizer with early data showing their vaccine is more than 90% effective. how do you get it out to the millions of people who need it? how long could this take? we'll get answers from the health and human services secretary alex azar. he is our guest coming up.

>> sandra: top stories making headlines this hour. pfizer reporting it's coronavirus vaccine could be 90% effective. >> trace: president-elect joe biden expected to meet with his coronavirus task force any moment. after the meeting he is expected to lay out his plan for tackling the pandemic. >> sandra: president trump promising to fight the election results through the courts appointing recount teams in some swing states to head those efforts. close to 100 people who worked on the trump campaign have deployed to georgia to helpment more on these stories and today's top headlines take a

picture of the qr code on the bottom of your screen to get started. >> trace: president trump's legal team is moving ahead on challenging the vote counts in several key states including pennsylvania where the president's attorney rudy giuliani is expected to sue over the handling of the election. eric shawn is live in philadelphia. how close are they to completing the vote count there? >> believe it or not, trace, on day six they're still counting the votes at the pennsylvania convention center. we're told they have 11,000 or so votes still to go for the city of philadelphia. as you said, the president's lawyer rudy giuliani vows he will go to federal court to sue pennsylvania election officials over the way they handled the election. mr. giuliani claims, for example, he has affidavits from people who say they saw wrongdoing during the election. also he says that he has

affidavits from people who showed that dead people voted in this election. but it is not known if the allegations can be proved and if they're enough to change the vote anyway. giuliani says republican vote counting watchers could not properly see the ballots but under state law that is not what they and their democratic counterparts are allowed to do. watchers, quote, may not challenge an absentee or mail-in ballot, engage in or interfere with the canvas of the absentee and mail-in ballots. the tensions have led to death threats against city commissioners running the election. al schmidt is the republican commissioner. >> the controversy surrounding it is something i don't understand. it is people making accusations that we wouldn't count those votes or people are adding fraudulent votes or just coming up with just all sorts of crazy

stuff. >> accusations like you are cheating. >> yes. >> i talked to both trump and biden supporters yesterday who are protesting outside of the convention center and they both reflected the divided views. >> pennsylvania matters and so we need to make sure that the votes are counted in a legitimate manner. we've lost ground and lost time and this is just absolutely ridiculous that this is happening. >> you think the voting is being counted fairly? >> absolutely, absolutely. these guys need to go home. >> authorities say they will take any allegation of election of voter fraud seriously and investigate it. the pennsylvania district attorney's office tells us they had 68 complaints and cleared all those complaints except one. >> trace: eric shawn live in philadelphia. >> sandra: americans taking to the streets over the weekend

celebrating joe biden's weekends. the large gatherings featured little social distancing at times but many people did wear masks, despite covid-19 cases surging in many states some in the media barely mentioning the potential risks associated with those large gatherings. >> i want to say we need as we watch these scenes of celebration, we're also seeing people wearing masks. >> exactly. >> and mostly wearing masks. they are not socially distancing. i hate to be a scold here. >> sandra: moments like that are being compared to the tone taken when talking about president trump's rallies where many crowded without social distancing bashing the rally at super spreader events and jack tapper saying the white house mocked those who don't want to be infected by them. joe concha joining us.

joe, clearly as we played that clip it was mentioned that it was easy to observe that people were in close proximity during many of these rallies over the weekend. but still too close. closer than six feet but it wasn't mentioned enough i guess is the question. >> well, what was missing, sandra, were chyrons that screamed super spreader events like we see below us here. during for instance jack tapper's amy coney barrett swearing in at the white house after being confirmed to the supreme court, they had a chyron on their screen that said trump supreme court nominee about to be sworn in at white house during another super spreader event. okay, where were those headlines during what we saw in new york and philadelphia and washington throughout the weekend? in our media it has this amazing talent of picking and choosing when to use super

spreader headlines based on political affiliation and when not to. oh, everybody was wearing masks argument, yeah, it doesn't help when you have thousands of people all jammed together singing and screaming. suddenly the masks might not be quite as effective. sandra. >> sandra: this is something that was noticed and brought up by some in the media. and you look at some of the things that were said during those trump rallies which is, of course, why those who were criticized during the trump rallies wanted this to be brought up then. they are making the case masks were worn, you saw the pictures many masks were worn in some cities that were rallying including philadelphia and others. >> yeah, two words, selective outrage. joe biden has a responsibility here, too. remember, he is the president-elect and needs next to lead by example. his theme was we would get covid under control. you have to step up here, mr. biden, and say okay, i

appreciate your support at all these rallies outside but we're now eclipsing 100,000 cases per day. while i appreciate your support, estimate this needs to stop. in other words, joe biden talks about unity, he talks about bringing the country together but has to start even though he isn't sworn in, he still has a voice and needs to step up to the microphones and say that must stop. >> sandra: fair to contrast the rallies in the street to the days leading up to election day by his campaign. there were circles made, chair in a circle to very officially social distance. it was a bit different after the election. okay, joe concha, appreciate your time this morning. thank you. >> trace: tropical storm eta lashing south florida with rain and high winds making landfall in the keys overnight. forecasters say it could strengthen into a hurricane and make a second landfall in florida later this week. keeping our eye on that.

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>> sandra: president-elect joe biden campaigned on rolling back president trump's tax cuts. his multi-trillion delay agenda will be funded by tax hikes. gerri willis is live with more. what are the likely changes that we could see when it comes to taxes? good morning. >> good morning. a lot of changes. mostly for individuals they apply to people earning $400,000 or more. corporations will get hit as well. here are the details. trump's tax overhaul passed nearly four years ago lowered the top tax rate to 30%. biden wants to tax capital

gains for ordinary income for those earning a million dollars or more and impose social security payroll tax on wages above $400,000. now many people are ignoring an important thing that he has talked a lot about. getting rid of the step-up in cost basis for people who are trying to move those estates, inheritances, businesses to the next generation. and it could mean higher taxes, a lot of taxes for people who are trying to inherit from parents. that's going to be very important and should get more attention. look, almost 80% of the tax increases backed by biden would land on the top 1% as we said. that's according to a budget model analysis but they aren't the only target. corporate tax rates from rise to 28%. all of this as biden looks to fund a multi-billion agenda. he wants to raise $3.4 trillion

through taxes to pay for infrastructure, education and housing. experts say that middle income earners could also get taxed. you remember the obamacare mandate, right? that would come back. that's as much as $2,000. typically applies to people earning $50,000 or less. sandra. >> sandra: gerri willis, thank you for that. >> trace: some progressives are reportedly making lists of president trump's allies threatening to cancel them in the future. all sparked after ocasio-cortez tweeted friday is anyone archiving these trump people when they downplay their complicity in the future? decent probability of deleted tweets, writings and photos in the future. let's bring the bernie sanders national surrogate and public advocate candidate. it doesn't seem to me that aoc,

alexandria ocasio-cortez is looking for the unity joe biden is calling for. she wants to cancel anybody who was working or worked in the trump administration. oh, and his supporters as well. your thoughts on that. >> well, i don't think that's exactly what she said. what she was trying to make a point of was this rehabilitation of folks for instance the lincoln project is a perfect example. the lincoln project was founded by a group of george w. bush administration officials, people who led us into the iraq war and fought democrats their entire lives but as soon as donald trump was a little too far they said no, let's start an organization and literally had 100 million off democrats who wanted to defeat trump. now they'll use that money to rebuild the republican party. the democratic money and democratic data. i think what she is trying to do a make a point that these

political operatives like to rehabilitate themselves and look for their next gig as the tides go in a different direction and they should be held accountable in terms of their record. i don't mean canceling but if they will run as republicans be republicans. >> trace: if she is trying to make a point those following her lead are not getting it. the trump accountability project writes remember what they did, talking about trump supporters. we should not allow the following groups of people to profit from their experience. those who elected him. that's 70 million people. those who staffed his government, those who funded him, that's the trump accountability project. molly hemingway counters that by saying i would say rounding up 70 million americans for political punishment is a bit ambitious but on brand for a socialist, i guess. >> oh my goodness. first off that's not what they said. those who elected them. the operatives who elected him to move on to their next operation, their next political path and scam a bunch of

working class donors, republican and working class donors. these are operatives. molly with all due respect you should be careful rounding up donald trump kept folks at the border and forced hysterectomies. we need to remember where we've been. most recently ice con -- concentration camps at the border. >> trace: what do you make of ocasio-cortez getting out of politics. >> she was being flippant. we need more aocs, more corey bushes, more young people in the party. we need to renovate and completely rebuild the democratic party. as much as it is great that joe biden won, we did have a lot of down ballot losses in districts specifically congressional districts specifically that were swing districts where they didn't go with the more progressive working class

message. shalala lost and she didn't support medicare for all. we need a party that understands working people again. >> trace: have to go. thank you so much. >> nice to see you, too. take care. >> sandra: fox news alert. we just learned that hud secretary ben carson has tested positive for the coronavirus. it was from a test he took this morning. his deputy chief of staff is saying he is in good spirit and feels fortunate to have access to effective therapeutics to speed his recovery. ben carson tested positive. that news coming as the race to find a vaccine for covid takes a giant step forward this morning with pfizer announcing a major breakthrough. alex azar will join us live next. who is usaa made for? it's made for him a veteran who honorably served and it's made for her she's serving now we also made usaa for military spouses and their kids become a member. get an insurance quote today.

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>> sandra: big news this

morning on the fight against coronavirus, pfizer announcing promising results from a late stage trial of their vaccine suggesting it may be 90% effective. join us now is health and human services secretary alex azar. great to have you on this morning on that news. but first we just confirmed that hud secretary ben carson tested positive for coronavirus. we're told he is in good spirits and we wish him well. we've seen reports you were with him for an election night viewing party where some fear it could be a spreader event. how are you doing and have you been tested? >> well, i actually did not see secretary carson at the election night party and i kept face covering on at all times and worked to maintain social distance following exactly the types of advice that i give to the american people every time i can talk to them. i wish secretary carson well. >> sandra: we all do. we are hearing he is doing okay this morning. we look for an update on that. this vaccine is huge news and you saw reaction on wall street. did you see this coming? what can you tell us it means

for the fight against this virus? >> well today is a really historic day in the history of public health. when i pulled together operation warp speed under the direction of president trump, the best people said that we could do would be to get vaccines in 12 to 18 months. dr. fauci and others said it would be remarkable and historic. here we are 10 months from the virus hitting our shores and we have a vaccine proving 90% effective. thanks to operation warp speed and president trump's leadership. i talked to him this morning as i do most mornings. he is really excited about the prospect we'll be able to save american lives not just through the vaccines. we have many vaccines, not just this one we invested in but also therapeutics. >> trace: i'm curious, do you know timeline? everybody is wondering when can we get this vaccine, when will it come to market? >> so pfizer will have to pull together their data and submit it to the fda where it will

undergo an independ den review process and authorized by them. he should be thinking in the several week time period both for the submission and then review by fda of the data. thanks to operation warp shead we have guaranteed receipt of fda authorized vaccine from pfizer, 100 million doses that we purchased for about $2 billion with an option for another 500 million more. those will start in increments of 20 million doses. pfizer has said beginning in late november and continuing monthly thereafter. >> sandra: mr. secretary, the governor of new york state went on an interview this morning reacting to this breaking news and he suggested somehow that this is bad timing to learn of the results of this vaccine. listen. >> the bad news is that it's about two months before joe biden takes over and that means this administration is going to

be implementing a vaccine plan. they're basically going to have the private providers do it and it will leave out all sorts of communities that were left out the first time when covid ravaged them. >> sandra: hard to believe anybody would think it is bad news to get these wonderful results from a late stage trial of a vaccine, mr. azar. i will let you respond specifically to that. he makes the point that means that donald trump is in charge of distribution. so react to the governor and also tell us how it will be distributed. >> well, it is absolutely unconscionable somebody would want to delay a vaccine to the american people for partisan reasons. the interesting thing operation warp smead is working closely with governor cuomo's health commissioner and his team. guess who is in charge of distributing within any state? governors. his team is working with us and set up a distribution system within their state.

this is more one size fits all approach is only the government can do things. that's not what was operation warp speed. public/private partnership. if we relied only on government to do things nothing to be getting delivered right now. >> sandra: i have to go for breaking news. are you getting words from governors like cuomo they'll try to stop the distribution of this under the presidency? >> no, the other governors we're working with are excited and want to be in charge of the distribution and working in partnership with us and a great plan that leverages the finest distribution system in the world to make sure vaccine gets where it needs to go safely and effectively. it includes his staff. he ought to talk to them and learn what their plans are. >> sandra: really appreciate you coming on. breaking news, thank you. speakt joe biden is speaking on the coronavirus. >> that health experts help the

transition team translate the biden/harris in action and the blueprint to put in place as soon as kamala and i are sworn in january 20, 2021. and we will seek to add other members to this board during this important, additional important perspectives on public health and expertise throughout the transition. this group will advise on detailed plans, build on a bedrock of science and keep compassion, empathy and care for every american at its core. making rapid testing widely available, more wildly available much more wildly available and contact traits is to track and curb this disease while we prioritize getting vaccines first for the most populations. developing clear and detailed guidance, providing necessary resources for small businesses, schools, child care centers to reopen and operate safely and

effectively during the pandemic, protecting both workers and the public. scaling up for life saving treatments and therapeutics and when it is ready, making sure an approved vaccine is to stay butte and potomac distributed free american. case is rising once more, it is imperative that we ramp up our production of protective equipment. to make sure that our brave health care workers have what they need to do safely against this virus, battle. we get states, cities and tribes the supplies they need. we will protect vulnerable populations who are at risk, most at risk from the virus, older americans and those with pre-existing conditions. we will address the health and economic disparities that mean this virus is hitting the black latino, asian-american pacific islanders, native american communities harder than white

communities. folks, these communities is one of our priorities. not an afterthought. the bottom line, i will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once we are sworn in january 20th. get our kids back to school safely, our business is growing in our economy running full speed again. and to get an approved vaccine manufactured and distributed as quickly as possible to as many americans as possible free of charge. we will follow the science. we will follow the science. let me say that again. we will adjust to new data when it comes in and we will listen and work in cooperation with governors and local leaders and both parties who are fighting this virus in the communities this very day. there was so much good work happening at state and local across the country, governors, mayors are stepping up. the advisory board will listen and learn lessons from their experience and because we know

that we will not fully defeat covid-1covid-19 until it's defed everywhere, my advisory council includes experts on global health security so that we can restore u.s. global leadership to fight this pandemic. this is a crisis that affects everyone. and as i said throughout this campaign, i will be a president for every american. thelection is over and hits side to put aside partisanship and rhetoric designed to demonize one another. it is time to end the politicized nation a basic responsible public health steps like mask wearing and social distancing. and we have to come together to heal the soul of his country so we can effectively address this crisis as one country. where hard working americans have each other's backs with united and shared goal of beating this virus. and we work to a safe and effective vaccine.

the single most effective thing we can do to stop the spread of covid is wearing a mask. the head of the cdc warned us this fall that for the foreseeable future, a mask remains the most potent weapon against the virus. today's news does not change that urgent reality. i will not quit until january 20th but my message to everyone is this: it doesn't matter who you voted for or whether you who stood before election day. it doesn't matter your party, point of view. we can save tens of thousands of lives if everyone would just wear a mask for the next few months. not democrat or republican lives, american lives. you know, maybe we could save the life of a person who stocks the shelves at the local grocery store. maybe save the life of a member of your place of worship.