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to the country's most vulnerable pop of layingses within weeks. -- populations within weeks. he expects the vaccine to be available to the general public by april. the announcement comes as the u.s. marks more than 10 million cases and the number of deaths surpasses 244,000. meanwhile, several states are now reimposing covid-19 restrictions as some governors resist those lockdowns. let's go to charles watson, live in atlanta with more. charles, first of all, what else do we know about the vaccine? >> reporter: well, arthel, president trump is hoping that the food and drug administration will grant emergency use authorization to at least one of four major companies that are currently developing a vaccine. that coming on the heels of pfizer's big announcement earlier this week, that early data has shown its vaccine is about 90% effective, during his remarks on friday the president painted a mostly good picture,

but he failed to mention the record number of cases that are being logged across the country as states and local officials impose new restrictions. >> this administration will not go to a lockdown. it won't be a necessity. lockdowns cost lives and they cost a lot of problems, the cure cannot be -- you've got to remember, cannot be worse than the problem itself. this administration will not go under any circumstances will not go to a lockdown but will be very vigilant, very careful. >> reporter: there is concern among public health officials that the president's often rosy outlook of the pandemic will make the situation worse in this country before a vaccine is available to the public hai. arthel: , meanwhile, north dakota is instituting a state-wide mask mandate, tell us about that.

>> reporter: the governor is implementing public restrictions. the state is sitting at the top of the list with the highest cases and deaths per capita and is really struggling to contain the virus. in a complete turnaround, the governor is imposing a mask mandate, restrictions on indoor dining and the suspension of high school sports and activities until december. north dakota joins at least 34 other states that have a mask mandate in place and as hospitals fill up in north dakota and other areas around the country, officials are increasingly moving forward to tightening restrictions, arthel. arthel: at this point, until we have that vaccine you're reporting on, masks are the next best thing to protect us all. charles watson, thank you so much, there live in atlanta. as soon as april, the vaccine will be available to the entire general population, with the exception of places like new york state, where for political

reasons the governor decided to say -- i don't think it's good politically. i think it's very bad from a health standpoint. eric: that's president trump escalating his feud with new york democratic governor andrew cuomo. thats was during the president's remarks about operation warp speed at the white house yesterday. the president was referring to the comments that the governor made in late september, when he questioned the safety of a vaccine rollout plan designed by the trump administration. governor como is firing back at what the president said. aishah hasnie is live in new york city with more on this feud. hi, aishah. >> reporter: hi, eric. that spat continued this morning into this afternoon. take a look at this, the president doubling down on that threat to basically withhold rolling out the vaccine to the state of new york, tweeting this. the problem is, new york governor cuomo said he will delay using it and other states want it now. the president first threatened to withhold a potential vaccine

from new york yesterday at the rose garden. he's claiming governor cuomo for refusing to distribute a vaccine until his own panel of experts deem it safe. the governor jumping on tv last night to try to explain to new yorkers and the white house why he with not want to delay distribution and again on a call this afternoon. listen to this. >> having a vaccine available is worthless if americans don't trust the vaccine. so it's just a review on the fda process. it will take no additional time. we are ready now to receive the vaccine. >> reporter: now, this back and forth comes as governor cuomo tightens restrictions across the state. bars, restaurants, gyms have to shut down by 10:00 every night because as the governor puts it coronavirus cases are spreading primarily from these

establishments. business owners terrified, another shutdown is around the corner, and new york city mayor bill de blasio warning hundreds of thousands of parents to get ready for a possible shutdown of in-person learning as early as monday. the city's infection rate inching closer to the 3% threshold to close down classrooms. children and students not mentioned among the groups that would get the vaccine first in that rose garden speech yesterday. by the way, eric, cuomo is having this emergency summit right now throughout the weekend with the other governors of the northeastern, neighboring states, to make sure they're on the same page with the new restrictions and policys in place. what they don't want to see happening is people get in their car and drive across the border and do whatever they want in another state. eric. eric: we don't want a repeat of the horrendous months of infections in march, april and may. aishah, thank you. arthel. arthel: no, we do not. right now we're going to take a live look at the nation's

capital where tens of thousands of supporters for president trump are holding several simultaneous rallies as the president's legal team remained busy with challenging voting in several key states. those legal efforts, though, hit with setbacks in arizona, michigan and pennsylvania yesterday alone. we're going to take you to the rally live in a bit in a moment from here, but right now we want to go to david spunt, live at the white house. david, are we hearing anything from the white house today? >> >> reporter: well, as far as today is concerned you heard white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany, these also apparently a drum campaign advisor -- trump campaign advisor, saying the battles continue in several states. it's hard to pinpoint how many cases are going on in different states. oftentimes some are filed and the legal challenges are retracted or shot down a day or so later. but president trump is golfing right now at his northern virginia club.

he left this morning. beautiful day in washington, d.c. but he is refusing to concede at this point. we do know that there are still many legal challenges that he is fighting in court in some of those cases and some of those states that you mentioned, specifically in pennsylvania, pushing ahead with an attempt to block results from being certified in the keystone state, although results will be certified, arthel, on november 23rd. the campaign experienced three blows in pennsylvania courts, all dealing with the counting of ballots. the secretary of the commonwealth out with a bit of news, she will not order a recount or recanvas because president-elect biden's lead was so significant. last week, attorney general bill barr put out a memo, telling u.s. attorneys across the country to monitor and report any substantial irregularitieses with ballots. the washington post reporting that 16 attorneys charged with

monitoring irregularities found nothing substantial that would show any type of irregularities or any type of concern. the trump administration continues to block a transition from the incoming biden team. you see john kelly who is saying that blocking a transition with the biden team could hurt our national security and democrats are outraged. >> we currently have a president who refuses to concede and allow for a peaceful transition to happen. the biden/harris administration doesn't have the opportunity even to try to start that transition and so republicans really are part of a party that is enabling this president, who is not only humiliating himself but humiliating our country. >> reporter: and you have heard from some republicans, mitt romney and pat toomey, the outgoing senator in pennsylvania who announced he would not run for re-election, but mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham, some of the senior republicans

in leadership have not yet admitted defeat for president trump at this point but ultimately as general kelly, the former white house chief of staff, said that president trump does not have to croo concede. there is no legal binding reason he would have to concede. things will still go on and president-elect biden will be inaugurated on january 20 ofth. just two months from now, a little over two months from now. arthel: david spunt, live at the white house. thanks, david. eric: supporters in washington got quite a thrill this morning when president trump's motor of kate drove by -- motorcade drove by the cheering crowds gathered for the rally at the white house today as the president headed off to his virginia golf club. you can see the capitol behind you by the trump international hotel, going right by the huge rally that's are ongoing on the streets of our capital by president trump supporters. they claim the election results in some states are fraudulent but to be clear, there is no

proof of widespread voter fraud or widespread irregularities, that they played any part in this election. rich edson is on the ground in washington where the supporters of the president are headed to the supreme court. hey, rich. >> reporter: hey, good afternoon, eric. this is the walk here, the trump protesters, tens of thousands have been taking throughout the day. we're between sixth and seventh street on pennsylvania avenue. you take this walk here, behind us where we're coming from, that's freedom plaza where this all started earlier today. around the corner from the white house. about a mile, mile and-a-half away, that's the u.s. capitol of, where all of the trump supporters are gathering, a number of different groups involved today, a number of different hashtags, trying to get people to gather, people were in town yesterday, folks we've spoken to from pennsylvania, west virginia, maryland, throughout the each coast. you mentioned, eric, the president and his motorcade did

drive around the crowd, back at freedom plaza earlier this morning while he was on his way to play golf in virginia. the crowd's been largely chanting four more years, usa, stop the steal, many in the group are picking up on the president's unfounded claim, as you mentioned, eric, that there was widespread election fraud and the election was stolen. there is no proof of that. the d.c. government and police say they're monitoring social media for the protests and demonstrators. the city closed down a perimeter. what we had is the beginning of a program at freedom plaza, about seven blocks, eight blocks from here where you had speakers, some singing, some chanting and folks started taking off and screaming over the last couple of hours, down to where we are right now. you've also had groups that have broken off, headed through the city. the city is largely shut down, downtown, and the movement is largely moved this way. you do have folks gathering throughout the city, gathering on the national mall which is

this way, as there are trump supporters throughout downtown d.c. right now in the nation's capitol. back to you. eric: rich, thanks so much, as we look at some of those supporters. those spouters are -- supporters are passionate. we want to remind our viewers that election officials across the country say they found no evidence of widespread fraud or election irregularities that played any role in the election results. they say the claims that the people are saying about a supposed stolen presidential election, say officials, just not true. arthel. arthel: eric. well, house speaker nancy pelosi raising the red flag about the state of the pandemic but called out for doing something considered hypocritical, happening hours later. plus, what president-elect joe biden can accomplish in office, we'lwill have a lot to do with e outcome of the runoff senate election in georgia. insight from one of was washings

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house in delaware. we're still waiting to hear his pick for key cabinet positions, which the president-elect says will come before thanksgiving. some names now making the short list of contenders, hillary vaughn she's not on the list but she has more about the list. hi, hillary. >> reporter: not that we know, arthel. not that we know. hi, arthel. well, it has been one week since the race was called for joe biden and the new physical therapy president-elect is already -- president-elect is taking time from his transition team, saying he earned time off so he's here in delaware, spending a few days with his family. >> as we look ahead to this weekend, i think he has earned certainly a couple days off and he will be spending some time with family this weekend and so you can rest easy that there won't be public events. >> reporter: but biden was spotted out in public today, riding his bike here on the

trail in cape henlopen state park where he told the press traveling with him, that he is getting closer to announcing who will be part of his inner circle as president. >> are you any closer to making a cabinet decision? >> yes. >> reporter: biden has been meeting with transition advisors every day throughout the week, looking at candidates for key cabinet positions, but the biggest decision right now we're learning that he is facing, who to pick for secretary of state and fox news is learning who is on that short list. at the top of the list is former ambassador, susan rice, who former president obama is pushing as his favorite. also on the list, long-time biden friend and fellow delaware resident, senator chris kuhns and also senator from connecticut, chris murphy. biden promised to be the most progressive president in u.s. history but progressives are not leaving anything to chance. they're actively campaignin camr

equal representation in his cabinet and administration. they are flooding the zone, handing the biden transition team on friday 400 name roster of recommendations. their co-founder telling the new york times this yesterday, quote, our assumption is that the transition wants to appoint good people and so we are making it easy for them to appoint good people by doing the heavy ground work. the sun rise movement another progressive group has their own wish list. they want squad members, congress woman rashida tlaib as hud secretary and they want senator warren as treasury secretary but bloomberg reports that the top contender for that role right now is former fed chair, janet yellen. during the campaign, president-elect biden said he would bring normalcy back to the white house of. now we're getting an idea of what that's going to look like. a biden official tells me under

a biden/harris administration, we can expect daily white house press briefings to make a comeback. arthel: who will get that job of delivering the briefings to the press? we will find out. hillary, thank you very much. eric. eric: for more on the transition to the transition, what it means for the incoming administration's agenda, michael len is with us, axios co-founder, former reporter for politico. you have been a long-time observer of the ways of washington. what are your concerns about the on obstacles the trump folks are throwing up ahead of joe biden? >> well, eric, thank you very much. and you and i have been talking for years about how this isn't normal and this is a new way that it's not normal. i can tell you the way the biden folks are reacting to it is they're sending the message, we got this. they're not complaining a lot about what's different. and they're going on and announcing their chief of staff, i think we'll hear some other

announcements, carrying on with their business. eric, it's important to tell viewers how different this transition is than it usually is. usually, as soon as you have a president-elect, there's kind of an open sesame effect and the general services administration, the government's landlord has a whole transition that's ready for you, that the new team walks into, the trump team did this and there's computers and there's secure facilities and there's cell phones and there's notebooks and it's all set up. so far, that hasn't happened. the biden team just saying we want what we're entitled to. in the meantime, we're going to keep going to take hillary vaughn's expression, to project normalcy. eric: how does this break? what would be the breakthrough? would bit the certification of the election finally, in order for them to walk in and not have an empty office, not even know where the computers are, or have nothing? >> this is partly the

president's whim. you talk to people around the president, as you know, the people around the president all think that it's over. they do not see the result changing. the question is getting the president there. could the certification be that? that's one milestone that people have put out there. i think it's going to happen sooner rather than later. the president's made his point. i think he will feel good after this rally. i'm in arlington, virginia. i can look right across the bridge, into georgetown and into some of the action in d.c. but that's going to be up to the president. but in the meantime, you see the office of the president-elect as we see the joe biden branding continuing with business, they're going to keep up a drum beat of appointments, showing us the covid briefings, telling us about the other briefings he's getting, putting out readouts of calls they're getting from world leaders, all sending that we've

got this message. eric: and we're looking right now in fact on the left of the screen, the viewers can see the rally in washington. the trump supporters certainly very passionate, and a variety of issues from supporting the president and his agenda, to others of saying they believe the election was stolen. you've got the hashtag, stop the steal. you've constantly reported that officials say there's no evidence of that, and that is not true. could this present a danger eventually to our democracy, to the faith of the credibility and integrity of the election system if this continues in this way, without any proof of evidence or unless something comes up? >> well, eric, you said it. a massive problem for america is the lack of trust in institutions. that includes government. that includes the church. that includes the media, for sure. and there's no chance of any of that healing as long as this goes on. and that's the long-term damage, potentially, from what the

president is doing. and i think potentially to the republican party. i've talked to republican party leaders about this. i've said to them, you're going to be in office a long time after president trump is. the republican party is going to long outlast all of us. aren't you concerned about that? so that's what somebody's going to have to convince the president of. the president isn't a long-term thinker. they're going to have to convince him that it's in his own interest, and that is what he responds to. like what is in his interest to -- eric: we saw you a disturbing sign, it says coming for blanks and indians -- blacks and indians, welcome to the new world order. what do republicans tell you? when does the president perhaps start to give a different message, while others think he will never concede or will never give another type of message and what do you say to the viewers watching right now who think that there is something wrong,

that this election was stolen, that there was fraud and their guy got rooked. >> these a very fair question and a two-part answer. what they say, i interviewed house republican leader kevin mccarthy for axios on hbo, he told me on camera that the president would concede and i said graciously? he didn't necessarily cosign to that but he said when the time comes, he says this is a democracy. the president will concede. to the people who feel that the election was stolen or there were improprieties, i would say to them that look at how other republicans -- look at how other leaders have handled this in the past. you look at the 2016 election which was even closer than this. you can argue. but democrats didn't resist or didn't claim that it had been stolen. they moved on. they came back to fight and to win and that's how the system works.

and so i would ask people to step beyond this moment and think about how they would apply this set of facts to other things in their life, to look at the reality, to look at the math, look at the history of recounts, only changing 400, 500 an average of votes when there's tens of thousands of votes that need to be changed here. and so the question is can those energies be redirected to what's next rather than to what's past. eric: all right. every american democracy has survived for so long and we will continue. michael len of axios. keep an eye on all those folks in washington. >> thanks for your coverage. arthel: while we cannot underscore the severity of the coronavirus pandemic enough, right now there is some good news on the vaccine front. the one company that says its vaccine is 90% effective, plus

when you might have access to a shot.

eric: the governors of california, oregon and washington state issuing a travel advisory there, urging people to self quarantine when they go to those states. oregon now joining new mexico and ordering a two week partial lockdown as the cases of coronavirus have surged across the country to frightening levels. christina coleman wraps up all of this from our west coast newsroom on what we have seen has been a surge over the last couple of weeks. christina. >> reporter: hi, eric. right now, california governor gavin newsom is facing backlash for not following one of the covid guidelines his administration is encouraging. he went to a birthday party with more than 12 people on november 6th for a friend who is one of his political advisors. the celebration was outdoors at

a restaurant. however, state guidelines currently limit social situations that bring people together from different households to no more than three households. newsom has since issued a statement saying his family should have modeled better behavior and not joined the party. meantime, covid infections are surging on the west coast, prompting states to take more action. california, oregon and washington state announced new travel advisories yesterday, urging out-of-state nonessential travelers to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival. oregon and new mexico are both imposeing partial state-wide lockdowns starting next week. new mexico's governor saying the state his hitting reset, limiting staffing and capacity at essential businesses and effectively closing nonessential businesses. restaurants and bars will be take-out only of. in oregon, restaurants and bars are also closing on-site dining, gyms and recreational facilities

will be joined, retail, grocery stores and pharmacies will be reduced to 75% capacity and religious services will be capped at 25 people indoors and 50 of people outdoors. >> it's a very dangerous situation. and our hospitals have been sounding the alarm. this isn't just about covid-19 patients. the next time you need medical care, the last thing you want to hear is that the ambulance has no place to go. >> reporter: also of yesterday, nevada's governor became the fifth governor to test positive for the virus. the 66-year-old democrat says he's not sure how he got covid and that he's not experiencing any symptoms. eric. eric: christina, thanks so much. arthel. arthel: there is some promising news on the vaccine front as coronavirus cases are surging again across the u.s. early results show pfizer's and

biontech's vaccine candidate could prevent more than 90% of people from getting coronavirus and the company is now planning to apply for emergency approval to use by the end of the month. dr. fauci predicts it will be available to all americans by april. let's bring in dr. patrice harris now, joining us from -- visiting professor by the way of columbia university's begalos, i should have got the pronunciation before we got on. college of surgeons. the question is the pfizer vaccine is showing to be 90% effective. i have some questions like do we know how long it's going to last in your system, keeping you safe from coronavirus or covid-19? >> arthel, those are great questions. by the way, thank you for having me again and those are great questions. and that's why we have to certainly take the news as

promising but we absolutely still need to see the full data and that full dataset needs to be evaluated by advisory committees. those things that happen in the usual course of business in authorizing and aproving vaccines and that is something that we will certainly want to know. how long will it last? because that will determine whether or not we have to get this vaccine again. what we know thus far is you certainly have to get two doses and it has to be stored at very cold temperatures. but we can welcome this promising news but know that we still need to see the full dataset before we can make any broad or generalizations. arthel: that's what's great because they are following the science in all the data checkpoints that you need to ensure safety and efficacy. so again, you say there are two

shots in the series and you have to store it i believe, what, minus 94 degrees fahrenheit so that's another question. i wonder, do you have any idea, according to what you're reading, how might the storage requirement hinder distribution to the masses? >> well, certainly that will be a challenge. it's certainly more difficult than if we were able to store this vaccine at room temperature. but i think the good news, and this was a critical piece of the puzzle, that, again, the efforts by the government had already -- regarding distribution was taking place in parallel with the development of a vaccine, so people have already thought about distribution channels. again, we don't have the full answers, but i think the good news is no one waited until the development of a vaccine before they talked about distribution. also, we'll need to answer questions around who should receive the vaccine first,

healthcare workers, those most vulnerable, most susceptible and those questions will be answered as we are able to see the data and of course ultimately the vaccine and future vaccines are ought arrived and approved by the fda. arthel: and i know that dr. fauci, dr. harris, he is saying that -- he's estimating that all americans will have access to the covid-19 vaccination or vaccine, i should say, come april 2021. what percentage of the general pop of layings in america -- population in america would have to get the vaccine, again, it includes those -- the second shot three weeks later, to keep us safe or the u.s., all of us, and to keep the virus in our country contained to near undetectable levels, do we have -- do you, the scientists, have an idea what percentage of us would have to get vaccinated? >> i think we'll have to wait

until we see around the 90% effective rate, that pfizer has noted. we'll have to look at that data. as you know, certainly the percentages vary, depending on the infectiousness of the disease and flu sometimes 60 to 70% but measles we would prefer numbers upwards of around 90%. this disease is highly contagious. but certainly we will know that number better when we fully can appreciate, again, pfizer has said 90% effective. that will be a factor. and also, the number of folks who get the vaccine as you note, this is a huge issue. we are constantly thinking about this and worried about this but that's why it's so important to look at that data so that we can have confidence that this vaccine is safe and then we can encourage safe and effective and we can encourage everyone to get

this vaccine. i do want to say, though, arthel, in the meantime and even when we are getting folks vaccines, people should not forget the basic public health measures that we know work. wearing a mask, dizzy call distancing, -- physical distancing, avoiding large crowds, washing our hands. those will continue to remain in effect, even when and if we get the beginnings of distribution of a vaccine. arthel: and more immediately, even when -- if you decide to go home for thanksgiving, be safe like you just mentioned. you're really kind. you didn't tell me is it vagalose? >> yes. arthel: you're very kind to me. thank you dr. harris. we appreciate your unsights. thank you for joining us. take care. >> you're welcome. thank you. arthel: eric. eric: it's a bit of a tongue twitter there. ready for this? a fugitive who was on the run for 50 years is now behind bars. how the feds were able to track

him down after he escaped from prison while serving a life sentence for murder.

arthel: the fbi says they have caught a fugitive who has been on the run for nearly 50 years. leonard rayne moses escaped custody in 1971 while he was serving a life sentence for first degree murder. investigators say they used the fbi's new feig finger print technology to catch moses during an arrest in michigan earlier this year. eric: wow, how about that. the georgia runoff senate election is less than two months away. millions and millions of dollars are pouring into the four campaigns that are vying for the two senate seats and the stakes couldn't be higher. the balance of power in the senate is all part of this and will come down to these two

races. leaders on both sides of the aisle pulling out all the stops to get out the votes, it could be a half a billion dollar race. let's go to tia mitchell, the washington correspondent for the hometown paper. you've got a double runoff senate election january 5th. what do you expect is going to be happening over the next 51 days? >> we expect all eyes -- they're already on georgia. we expect all eyes to continue on georgia because as you mentioned the balance of power in the senate will be determined by these two races. we expect a lot of money, both political parties and a lot of grassroots organizations. you know, everyone -- all of the georgia voters are going to -- all their tv commercials will be full of political ads. eric: yesterday, senator loeffler, kelly loeffler and david purdue, the two republicans they appeared together. they're putting up a united front, saying if you tonight want the senate to go to democratic hands, you know, vote for us. we're the firewall.

how much traction do you think that will get? do you think could potentially backfire and energize democratic voters? >> i think that's the key question, is which side can get their base to turn out for this election, because republicans do have a powerful message in saying do we want to give democrats control of the house, the senate and the white house. and kelly loeffler and david purdue weren't campaigning together during the general election so that's a change for them to create this ticket almost, this united front, to say you need both of us to be reelected. but on the democratic side, john ossoff and reverend raphael warnock have been campaigning together. they have also been putting forth a unified front in saying if you want to biden administration to be able to implement the things they've laid out in their plan, you

know, healthcare and police reform and getting more progressives in government, then you're going to need the senate to cooperate and that will be harder to do if republicans control the senate. so the question is, they both have a clear message, both sides, but which side can turn out their voters and that is very hard in a runoff where you're asking voters to come back to the polls again. eric: yeah. wow, i mean, look what we just went through. people are going to say, you know, not again, i've got to go back again? something that could potentially help ossoff this next time is that the libertarian candidate is not in the race. would that help ossoff or could that help david purdue? the libertarian was the difference between -- a greater margin of victory and spread in that contest. >> my guess is that it depends -- if the libertarian voter -- i

think most libertarian voters are more conservatives in value, but david purdue is not the most attractive candidate to a libertarian voter because he is, you know, a former fort chon 5 -- fortune 500 ceo, he kind of represents the big money and so i think for the more libertarian-minded person, david purdue might not be their ideal candidate. so i think it comes down to are they willing to kind of overlook david purdue's kind of capitalist roots and support him because of his conservative values, or is it the opposite way, where they're more willing to support john ossoff who represents -- even though he comes from money too, but he represents that progressive that i--those progressive ideals, but again, he doesn't have the conservative values that i think possibly some libertarians might want to look for as well. so it's probably split down the

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angry at the new sanctions that the u.s. has imposed on the country. tehran is still allowing international inspectors in and the iaea says iran is not only stockpiling uranium beyond those permitted limits but it's also of enriching it to a much higher purity than allowed. tehran claims its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes but there has been skepticism about that from the trump administration which is why it pulled out from the deal two years ago. in the agreement, iran has to limit its uranium enrichment program. now it no longer does so. france, germany, and the u.k. have tried to hold the agreement together but relations have become increasingly strained. meanwhile, iran has denied that a senior al-qaida leader was killed in the country back in august. he was allegedly behind the u.s.

embassy bombings in kenya in 1998. according to the new york times he was killed by israeli operatives acting perhaps with the cooperation of the u.s., although this hasn't been confirmed. but if true, it further highlights the huge divisions between the u.s. and iran. now, president-elect biden has indicated he might like to allow the u.s. to rejoin the nuclear deal with iran but already there are indications from tehran that they might not aloss that process to be quite that simple. arthel: thank you so much. and thanks for joining us, eric, we have to take a break for an hour. we'll be back in an hour. hope you can join us then. stick around now for journal editorial report. s skyrizi. ♪ things are getting clearer ♪ yeah i feel free ♪ to bare my skin, yeah that's all me. ♪ ♪ nothing and me go hand in hand ♪ ♪ nothing on my skin that's my new plan. ♪ ♪ nothing is everything. woman: keep your skin clearer with skyrizi.

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paul: welcome to "the journal editorial report." i'm paul gigot. as joe biden begins to piece together his administration, the president trump team is pushing ahead with legal challenges in several battleground states, as georgia announces a hand recount of the votes in that state. while none of these moves are expected to change the outcome of the election, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell this week urged calm as the process plays out. >> i think we all to quit the hand-wringing, not act like this is extraordinary. we're going to get through this period and we'll swear in the winner on january 20th, 2021, just like we have every four