join brian kilmeade radio worldwide on all the channels. we'll watch. everybody, it's been a long week. have a great weekend. we'll see you back here on monday. >> trace: fox news alert. michigan state lawmakers set to meet with president trump at the white house in a few hours. this after republican canvassers tried to rescind their votes to certify wayne county's elections results claiming they were bullied into siding with democrats. i'm trace gallagher. >> martha: good to be with you this morning. i'm martha maccallum. sandra smith is off today. the chairwoman of the wayne county board of canvassers says she is being harassed over this situation last night she said a poll challenger has been waging an online campaign against her. >> it has continued. he has used his social media

platform to repeatedly dox me. post my home phone number and my home address and encouraged people to share their anger with me. >> martha: meanwhile president trump's legal team continues to allege widespread voter fraud although they haven't brought forward hard evidence. joe biden's firing back condemning president trump's refusal to concede the race. >> does not a singular voter vaught in one state. this pattern repeats itself in a number of states. almost exactly the same pattern. >> i think we're witnessing incredible irresponsibility, incredibly damaging messages be sent to the world about how democracy functions. >> trace: griff jenkins is live in washington how is the president's legal team being received? good morning. >> good morning, trace and

martha. it is getting a lot of reaction that fiery press conference. rudy giuliani laid out their open statements full of serious allegations on widespread voter fraud with nothing that has been proven in court so far. listen. >> to any experienced investigator, prosecutor would suggest there was a plan from a centralized place to execute these various acts of voter fraud. >> attorney sidney powell the central plot was communist and came from venezuela. the dominion voting system and the company shot back saying dominion is nonpartisan american company with no ties to venezuela or cuba. fox news contributor jonathan turley had this to say earlier. >> the allegations raised yesterday have not been

established. they are suggesting a global communist conspiracy. there are some issues that deserve to be looked at. issues of overvoting. >> the president has been tweeting this morning about it saying simply it's a rigged election. right now the timing of when the president's attorneys will file next in court is unclear as senator tom cotton says it's time to go right now. listen. >> we're to the point, though, where this is a time not for politicians or press conferences. that was during the election. this is a time for evidence in court. >> meanwhile in michigan the certification set to take place on monday with the state canvas board which could be headed for a delay after the two wayne county gop board members spoke out last night and we heard in the intro. unclear how it will proceed because the state canvas board when they meet on monday is made up of two democrats and two republicans. we have to wait and find out.

the meeting with michigan state lawmakers not confirmed but we understand it should happen at some point today. a p private meeting with the president. a senior administration official telling me moments ago there will be a press conference at noon today at the white house. we'll have to wait and see what that brings. trace. >> trace: we'll look for the news out of that. griff jenkins live in the nation's capital. >> martha: pfizer will apply for emergency use approval of its covid-19 vaccine today. the application to the fda comes two days after it announced its vaccine is 95% effective in preventing covid-19. that as cases continue to surge across the country with less than a week until thanksgiving. david lee miller live with the latest for us in new york. hi, david lee. >> good morning, martha. a noisy new york. scientists refer to it as

vaccine candidate vnt160b2. that's the pfizer coronavirus vaccine that could save and change lives. the company says that today it is going to seek fda emergency use authorization for the drug. pfizer and partner say it could be available for use by the middle of december for those in high-risk groups. the plan is to produce up to 50 million doses by the end of the year and 1.3 billion the next year. based on the trials, people should have trust in the vaccine. >> given what the vaccine's efficacy is beyond the most optimistic projections of everyone. and we have now very nice safety information about this vaccine but the voice of those people who are still skeptical will become less. >> meanwhile the vaccine

continues to rage. yesterday alone it killed more than 1900 americans. new restrictions put into place across the country in hard hit areas in california designated purple zones. a 10 p.m. curfew. in new hampshire the state motto is live free or die the republican governor issued an executive order requiring masks for all adults when social distancing is not possible. citing a million new coronavirus cases in just the last week the cdc is updating travel guidelines for thanksgiving in a word, don't. they are urging those who do want to celebrate thanksgiving do so with your household. what does that mean? anyone who has not lived in the same home for 14 days they say could be a risk. martha. >> martha: different kind of thanksgiving. david lee, thank you very much. >> trace: at least four california sheriffs say they

will not enforce governor newsom's limited stay at home orders which stops all non-essential travel from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. the sacramento sheriff's office saying no officers will be dispatched to homes or businesses breaking health orders. fresno county sheriff said she refuses the make criminals out of normally law-abiding citizens. the curfew goes into effect this saturday and lasts until december 21. >> martha: for more on these shutdowns let's bring in fox news contributor byron york, chief political correspondent for "the washington examiner". good to have you with us this morning. during the campaign, this was a big topic. one of the biggest topics, the debate over the lockdown, the philosophy behind it, whether or not it works, the president often would say that if joe biden won we would be back into a lockdown situation. here is what he had to say about that yesterday, joe biden, watch this.

>> no national shutdown. no national shutdown because every region, every area, every community can be different. >> martha: you have a lot of businesses around the country terrified right now this may be the end for them. >> well, they are. they remember what happened in april and may. but politically the sentiment against lockdowns seems to be getting very strong. president trump has said all along it would be absolutely no lockdown under his administration. and what you saw yesterday, what you just played joe biden speaking after he had discussed this with several of the nation's governors said no, no national lockdown. the governors of kansas and mississippi, democrat and republican, were on special report a couple nights ago and they were absolutely united

against lockdowns. as a matter of fact most seemed to be against stake lockdowns as well. they want to do it on a county by county basis where things are most serious and not do any sort of one size fits all lockdown. >> martha: it seems in many ways that we've discussed the virus in terms of how much we've learned about it over the course of this difficult nine months and yet in some places you don't see a change in the way that they are approaching it. in terms of locking down the most vulnerable populations, in new york city you have the school locked down which we'll talk about coming up in a little while. here is a map that shows all of the states that have put new restrictions in, byron. are we learning better how to deal with this and how to focus the lockdowns or not? >> well, we're learning better but it doesn't seem to be getting through everywhere. you had a discussion with a teacher's union official on

your program last night and you were saying look, the science says it is okay. dr. redfield cdc said perhaps the safest place for children to be as far as coronavirus is concerned is in school. and yet you still have this announcement of a lockdown in new york -- school closings in new york city. certainly teachers unions played a big part in that. in places where teachers unions are not strong there is not much sentiment supporting that. >> martha: no doubt. with regard to the investigations that are ongoing across the country into the election, a lot of attention paid to the rudy giuliani news conference yesterday. there is a larger sentiment, i think, about wanting to make sure that we clean up these election systems and that we don't see things like dead people voting and people who vote twice and all of this. here is sean hannity talking about it last night and get your thought on the other side.

>> every american should be tired and fed up at the double standard. it has gone on for four years. the lies, the conspiracy theories, breathless hysteria reporting and corruption. they don't trust america's powerful institutions and you shouldn't. by the way, that trust extends to this year's election chaos. if we don't get to the bottom of what happened, if we don't get there and president trump's legal team is vowing to do that why would you expect it to ever stop? >> martha: byron. >> well, i think there is universal support among republicans for going after the kind of corruption that you mentioned. but the problem in this election is that so far the trump campaign has not shown that that sort of corruption took place. and what concerned some republicans about the news conference yesterday was the

theory that there was vast influence of communist money coming from venezuela, cuba and china. and which was changing hundreds of thousands or millions of votes through software and that is not something that the team offered any support for. >> martha: it seems like there are some republican senators starting to distance themselves from that project a bit. we'll see where it all goes today with those two michigan canvassers coming to the white house and see what goes on with that as well. byron, great to see you. >> thank you, martha. >> trace: to piggyback on that conversation some new york city parents outraged over the closing of public schools. >> open our schools, open our schools, open our schools, open our schools. >> trace: now a member of the white house covid task force says schools are safe for kids during the pandemic. we'll discuss it with dr. marc

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>> i come from a state we currently have the worst governor in america. governor cuomo made fatal decisions early on causing the loss of tens of thousands of lives of seniors in our nursing homes and he is taking absolutely the wrong approach. >> martha: she also says he contradicted his own restrictions by attending private parties without wearing masks and social distancing despite telling others to do just the opposite. >> trace: cdc suggest americans avoid thanksgiving travel and recommends only celebrating with people in your household for 14 days. the guidance comes as coronavirus cases surge

nationwide. pete hegseth is co-host of fox and friends weekend and author of the new book "modern warriors." i want to put up some of these cdc guidelines that have generated so much emotion and conversation online. one of these wash clothing and masks, stow luggage from common areas. remain six feet a part from people in different house olds. open windows or keep central air on. continuous circulation. avoid singing or shouting. do not let pets interact with people outside your household. that's a partial list. there are a bunch of these things including bring your own food, don't go in the kitchen area, stuff like that. what do you make of these? is it your sense a lot of people aren't going to abide by this? >> i better get my cats in from outside. they my interact with people. of course people are going to make their own choices. i'm fine with guidelines.

put guidelines out all you want giving people information to make their own choices. when i sit at the thanksgiving table with my family. anyone is invited, i'm thankful and grateful to god and grateful to this country and grateful for freedom. not a government that tries to control every minutia and aspect of my life. this is one of the most recent absurd example of not respecting people. we're free people. we can make choices with information. we understand our risk thresholds and if grandma, grandpa are not coming to thanksgiving this year and we want to zoom them in. common sense decisions we can make based on the information we all have and the fatality rate of this virus, survivability 9.9% of most people in the country. respect people enough to let them have a choice. they'll be traveling and be

with family and make decisions after that. my school is taking one week after thanksgiving to go virtual. i don't love it but i get it. if you've been with family. we take a pause before the kids come back to school. fine. it's draconian stuff that people won't go with. >> trace: i want to put this up. here is what the cdc allowing gatherings and who is allowed to be in your house. listen and get your response. >> the safest way to celebrate thafrption giving this year is at home with the people in your household. is people have not been actively living with you for the 14 days before you are celebrating they aren't considered a member of your household. therefore you need to take those extra precautions even wearing masks within your own home. >> college kids as well as military members who might come home. if you have to have the people in your house make them wear masks. >> thanks.

people aren't going to follow that. they'll invite the people they love and share a meal together and watch football and be grateful. there is not much more than that. people listen to this stuff and realize they see the elites like gavin newsom who ignore guidelines. dr. fauci said recently we should even after we get the vaccine everyone should wear masks and socially distance. isn't that the point of the vaccine to get back to living our lives the way we want to? people want common sense respected and it's not what we're seeing. >> trace: the book, you have a new book called modern warriors, real stories from real heroes. first one published by fox news. what do you think? all indications are it's a big book. >> i've had a show on fox nation called modern warriors. we bring you into the team

room, into the reality of what really goes on and that's where this book came from. it is candid, raw, not pollically correct. it is from 15 members of this generation, the 9/11 generation. you see footage of the show modern warriors. i lost the shooting contest. these guys are world class shooters but you meet the humans behind the navy seals and rangers, what it is like to have bullets going past your head. it's a fox news book. if you subscribe to fox nation for a year you can get a free copy and go to fox nation.com to get the book. >> martha: i never figured pete for a cat guy either. this is how we learn about each other. coming up here on "america's

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vir and pfizer awaits emergency approval for its covid-19 vaccine from the fda. >> trace: the republican rick scott has tested positive for covid-19. scott is also the former governor of florida. he says he had several negative tests in recent days but got his positive test this morning. says he is experiencing mild symptoms but will remain at his home in naples until he feels good enough to go back to d.c. he reminds people to wear a mask and keep your distance. rick scott testing positive for covid-19. >> martha: fox news alert. maryland's governor larry hogan tightening his state's covid-19 restrictions they include a 10:00 p.m. curfew for bars and restaurants. capacity limits as stores, salons, houses of worship will be lowered. hospital and nursing home visits suspended. no fans allowed at sporting

events. maryland has more than 1,000 cases a day for two weeks. thank you very much. good to have you with us this morning. it's good to have you with us. i think these are things that everybody has wanted to avoid, i would imagine that you had hoped to avoid them as well. why do you think this is the best course of action at this point? >> well we've been doing really well on economic recovery and on the virus. we were better than 43 other states. we've had our economy 100% open since july or august. but now we're seeing the virus unfortunately doesn't recognize state borders and it is spiking out of control all across the country in all 50 states. we've hit our largest peak ever. we've been over 2,000, 2300 cases a couple days in a row. the biggest concern we have is the hospitalizations, happening in many states. we're at 90% capacity. a number of hospitals that are over capacity and we had 25

deaths in the past 24 hours. we have a person dying every minute in america but one every hour here in the state of maryland. >> martha: a couple of conflicting inputs on your action. one coming from the montgomery county executive saying the governor had strong words but i don't think the steps that he took match the urgency of his words. we must take significant measures to slow the spread. and then the director of national federation of independent businesses has a different take. he says it's a very sad day for maryland businesses. it will be a tough pill to swallow for so many of the state's job creators. what do you say to both of those individuals about your decision? >> well look, you will never make everybody happen. these are terrible decisions. a choice between a bad choice and a bad choice. i am a lifetime small businessman. i ran for governor to help

small businesses. we try to keep our hospitals from overflowing and losing their businesses or lives. we are trying to find the balance. 89% of the people in maryland believe that we've got it just about right. there are a few on one side think we're not doing enough. a few on the other side that think we're doing too much. i don't care what people think. we're making the decisions based on the best advice and we're hoping to get it right. >> martha: i know you were on the call yesterday with president-elect joe biden about coronavirus. what was your takeaway from that? and how do you see him handling this any different than what we've had in the past? >> right. so we had a really productive meeting with vice president pence and the white house coronavirus task force on tuesday. we had what i thought was a productive meeting yesterday with vice president biden and senator harris. this was the executive

committee on the national governor's association. five republicans and five democrats. they were mostly in listening mode. they didn't talk a lot about their plans but we thought it was important the governors on the front line of fighting this battle since for nine months now and it gave us a chance to tell them what we saw going on and what were the things we needed to continue and some of the things that we thought we needed help on like we want to get the next stimulus package. some kind of compromise between democrats and republicans. great progress on the vaccine with operation warp speed is one of the biggest successes of the current administration. we want to make sure nobody is dropping the balls as we're going through this transition. >> martha: governor hogan, thank you very much. good luck to you and good to have you with us. >> thank you, martha. >> trace: growing calls now from progressive democrats to make sure president-elect biden follows through on his campaign promises. why the push could cause more friction within the party next.

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>> martha: the capitol christmas tree arriving in washington, d.c. today coming in from the tiny town of norwood, colorado. national park service will livestream the lighting next month. the tree will stand at the capitol through new year's day and see if this one is in better shape than the one at rockefeller center, trace. it is an appropriately bereft christmas tree for 2020. i know they sometimes stick branches in the tree after they put it up at rockefeller center. ben got it right in the studio. the branches were socially distancing.

[laughter] >> trace: ben has a great line. let's face it, the charlie brown tree makes -- looks like a robust -- it had an owl in it. it had the baby owl that made the trip all the way down. >> martha: that's amazing. beautiful bird. >> trace: it had that going for it as well. that tree was sad looking. anyway, moving on. >> the bottom line we can do this. there is nothing beyond our capacity. but we have to come together as a country. we're looking for us to come together and deal with problems most of which have no ideological basis for disagreement. that's what we have to do. >> trace: president-elect joe biden pushing for unity among democrats as members of the

party's progressive wing press the administration for bold action on climate change. rachel campos-duffy joins us now. thank you for coming on. it is hard to get unity when you can't get your own party on the same page. there is some big pushback happening from progressive who believe joe biden needs to come their way. listen. >> my timeline is different. my timeline is different. i have no time -- our folks don't have another day. we'll make sure that the biden administration sticks to our timeline. >> trace: make sure the biden administration sticks to their timeline. your thoughts, rachel. >> they are on the steps of the u.s. capitol demanding that joe biden give them money through an executive order to enact a multi-trillion dollar green new deal. frankly, if they really cared about the environment they wouldn't be on the steps of the

capitol but the chinese embassy. they are oef the big violators of the environment. jobs will move back out of our country and back to china which won't be good for the environment. joe biden promised to be the most progressive president in u.s. history. he coalitioned with the socialists and communist wing of the democrat party. now they're coming to him saying we want you to enact our agenda. so the only way to pass something like what they are demanding on the steps they won't get it passed in congress. he will have to do an executive order and it won't be very unifying. >> trace: we showed alexandria ocasio-cortez speaking there. it is interesting because she said the following quoting. we're winning. it is working. we are going to secure the basic tenets of a green new deal. a jobs control for racial, gender and class.

interesting she used the phrase that we are winning and it is working because you go back a couple of weeks to the election and you look at the down ballot races for democrats and there was a lot of pushback on some of these progressive ideas. are they winning? >> well, she claims that she secured a promise. elizabeth warren, also part of that wing of the party, has said she will get -- it seems like joe biden is agreeing to it, you know, debt forgiveness for student loans and just last night on twitter aoc also was tweeting out that the only way to get over this pandemic is for people to stay home and for the government to pay them. this is what these socialists want. they want us dependent on government. they want private businesses killed. they want individual initiative thwarted. they want people to sit home and collect a check. this is what the socialists want and this is what joe biden

will have to deal with for the entire four years because this is who he coalitioned with. he made a deal with these women and men on the socialist and communist side of the democratic party and they are at his doorstep. they want him to enact their agenda. >> trace: very quickly last thoughts on elizabeth warren saying day one joe biden should sign executive order $93 trillion green new deal package. >> this is what they say he will do. this is what they are demanding. it will kill jobs and it will absolutely certified that the republicans -- that the democrat party is not the worker's party. they are elitist environmental party. >> trace: good to see you as always. thank you. >> martha: new york city schools closing. the public schools as the city hit a 3% coronavirus positivity test rate. now parents are calling for them to reopen. protesting all over the streets yesterday as you can see on the

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>> martha: some new york city parents, a lot are demanding that the schools reopen. mayor bill deblasio ordered classrooms to go all remote earlier this week after the city surpassed a 3% positivity

rate in covid-19 cases. cdc director robert redfield school is one of the safest places for children to be. dr. marc siegel is a fox news contributor and a medical professor and author a new book. thank you for being here. last night i had a discussion with randy weingarten, the head of the aft teacher's union and laid out a lot of the science, studies that brown university did, the study published in the atlantic which shows low rates of positivity. .13, i believe, positivity rate for students. here is a little bit of our exchange. i want to get your thoughts on the other side. >> the parents clearly want students in the classroom and so does the cdc. >> you are actually not listening to me. what has happened here is that

new york city was the only major school district in the nation to actually reopen schools. >> they aren't now, randi. why are they closing now ?oo >> they're closing now because what the city said and frankly what lots of other places are also seeing is a huge skyrocket increase in the virus surge. we need -- >> you aren't listening to the science here, randi. >> martha: i went on to lay out the different studies and what they actually show. what are your thoughts on all of this, marc? >> martha, first of all the study out of brown university is the most convincing. they just wrote about that in the "washington post" today. the amount of spread of covid-19 from kids not in school is the same as if they are in school. it is literally like 1 in 1,000 kids and 2 in 1,000 teachers.

schools can take precautions and have social distancing and masking in place. so much more important to have schools open. here is why. 30% of kids especially in poor communities cannot get access to the kind of tools you need to learn remotely. they don't have the ipads or the computers for this. they're not going to be able to learn effectively at all. socialization among young kids is missing if they aren't in school. get this, martha, blue cross and blue shield just determined that we're down over 12 million doses of vaccines in the united states. childhood vaccines. incredibly important, measles, whooping cough and polio. schools are the ones who determine that you have to have those shots or they don't let you in the school. we can see a resurgence of so many other diseases besides covid. childhood diseases we've stamped out here like measles if we don't have the schools open not to mention meals,

depression, mental health screenings, early childhood interventions, teeth being cleaned. eyes being examined. all of this centers around school life. >> martha: for all the talk that we've had about listening to the scientists, it feels like we should have had an even greater learning curve over the course of the last nine months about what needs to be closed, what doesn't need to be closed, what actually works when you close it down. you look at the united kingdom. and europe. they did not close the schools down with the latest wave. they did curtail restaurants, bars, that kind of thing and they are dropping. their rate is dropping by 10% in recent weeks. is that what we should be doing? >> yeah, i agree with that. we have to look at each place and see if it's a super spreader type of environment. first of all it's not that kids don't spread covid but they are much less likely to. you look at a bar, for example, people are in bars not wearing

masks and getting inebriated and sitting close together. bars are super spreader places. let's look at each place and determine whether it's causing the spread or not. also what's the collateral damage from a public health point of view if you close something. listen, a lot of people make their livelihood at bars. we may be able to temporarily close them in hot spots without tremendous damage. >> martha: you could have generational learning loss for these children some at a the ender age they may not end up going back to school and what's happening at home is really tough and affecting mostly minority children and a bigger impact than other kids across the country. it is a big concern. dr. marc siegel thank you very much. good to see you. >> not to mention the parents that have to stay home. >> martha: so many women out of the workforce because of this and that's another huge loss. thank you, thanks, dr. marc. >> trace: fox news alert. cdc issuing most stringent

guidance yet urging people to stay home this thanksgiving as coronavirus cases spike across the country. more on the recommendations next hour.

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watch this. >> is that a cd player? >> radio. >> some kind of recording device. >> that's a reader. >> a vc -- what is it called? a vcr. >> i ain't never seen that in my life. i won't lie to you. >> it's a beeper, the players also got boy band -- the group didn't know what a floppy disk was. one called it a cd player. everything is changing so fast, right? >> trace: they're all born in like 2001. coronavirus pandemic having an impact on blood donation centers. they're suffering from a dangerously shortage of lifesaving blood donations and asking for your help. how can americans safely donate blood?

>> good morning to you. here at the new york blood center they make it very easy. make an appointment, come in for a health screening and you are ready to give blood. it is safe and easy. they're desperate for every ounce of blood. here are the numbers. they really tell the story what's happening. at other new york blood centers across the state donations are at 65% of pre-pandemic levels. down 8,000 donations a month. at america's blood centers 22% of their 60 centers only have a one to two-day supply and only a quarter have a one-day supply. the pandemic really dealt a huge blow to blood centers across the country. tens of thousands of blood drives have to be canceled, donors who used to drop by a blood drive at school or place of worship now have to make appointments at the blood centers. a lot of folks still scared. >> what people need to understand now our blood drives

are safe. we have our staff wear masks and diligent about being socially distanced. cleaning protocols in place. we take temperatures as people come in. we manage appointments carefully. we control the flow. so we have adapted to the pandemic. >> and trace it is really easy to find out how to donate. go to red cross.org to get details. >> trace: thank you. fox news alert on the fight against covid-19. pfizer says it is applying today to the fda for emergency use approval of its vaccine after trials showed it is 95% effective. this comes as the cdc is now urging americans not to travel over the thanksgiving holiday. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm trace gallagher. >> martha: i'm martha maccallum, sandra smith is off today. so the cdc's new guidance is its most stringent yet and

comes with more states imposing tougher restrictions as coronavirus cases continue to rise across the country. >> trace: california governor newsom is enacting a new curfew amid fallout from him violating his own restrictions as a napa valley diner last week. we're at lax which is usually the busiest holiday travel weekend of the year. >> good morning. starting tomorrow roughly 94% of californians will find themselves under the newly imposed overnight stay at home order. what it means is that essentially from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. all non-essential activity outside of your house is banned. that order was issued a few days after news broke about governor gavin newsom's dinner with a fairly large group of people which some people thought was rather hypocritical given the advice he has given regarding the coronavirus. all of this happening as

coronavirus cases spike not only here in l.a. county but all across the country. that's leading the cdc to recommend people to not travel this thanksgiving holiday. it is less than a week away, traditionally one of the most busy times to travel out of the whole year but the u.s. is seeing one million new reported cases across the country just within the last week so the cdc wants folks to stay at home in order to prevent the spread. doctors with the cdc say this is a critical phase in the pandemic and hoping people listen to their warnings. >> i'm of the belief you can give thanks every day with families but you don't want a situation where you meet and then you go to someone's funeral two or three months later. >> the number one priority is to make sure everyone is staying healthy and safe and if we need to err on the side of caution to make it happen i have no problem with that. >> according to data from aaa

more than 4 1/2 million people traveled by air. this year they project number to be cut to 47 1/2%. advice from the cdc, some travelers simply aren't worried. >> i have no qualms whatsoever traveling. i think it's actually cleaner on the planes than going to a gas station to get gas. >> it is the safest place right now. they are very strict on their covid procedures and it is time to get away. >> now the recommendation from the cdc is just that. it is not a requirement but the folks here at lax said they'll be prepared for whatever travelers come here with hand sanitizer. they expect about 5,000 people. >> martha: rough on all the travel-related industries. some of the most progressive members of congress known as

the squad are promising to hold president-elect joe biden's feet to the fire when he gets to the white house. yesterday they were pushing for him to back their agenda even as moderate democrats blame progressives for losing house seats on election day. >> i don't want anybody here to think that we're not winning. let me tell you something, we're winning. it is working. it is happening. that's what our next move is, the make sure that the biden administration keeps its promise. >> i urge you all to continue raising this issue because we hear you. we are here with you and we stand by you. >> we'll make sure that the biden administration sticks to our timeline, moving towards our timeline. i ask all of you do not move from the needle. >> martha: joining me now chris wallace, anchor of "fox news sunday". good to see you the morning.

interesting listening to alexandria ocasio-cortez there she says we are winning. and i guess the question remains to be seen. we saw an interesting shake-out in the election in house seats. you saw a lot of republicans picking up seats. the question for her and for their squad is how much leverage do they actually have once they get going here in january? >> well, it's interesting they clearly didn't win in the house. everybody expected them -- i know the democratic power inside the house expected them to pick up a half dozen seats at least. looks like they've lost more than a half dozen seats. so you could say well, the squad, aoc and her colleagues don't have as much power. on the other hand, nancy pelosi is going to have a razor thin majority in the house. they'll need every vote. looks like they could only stand to lose four or five as opposed to 15 or 20 seats --

votes in any measure that comes up before the house. so those members of the squad and their like-minded colleagues will have a lot of clout in the house. now, are they going to be willing to kill the good because they want the perfect? it will be interesting to see. there is a real split inside the democratic party. a lot of moderates furious. i have heard a lot of them as you have say defund the police, you know, things like that were the dumbest marketing they had ever heard and really hurt moderate democrats in this election. on the other hand they hold in many respects the balance of the majority in their hands. this will be very interesting to watch what goes on in the house in this next year or two. >> martha: very interesting indeed. and we're getting a little bit of a sense of the kind of people that joe biden wants to surround himself with in the white house and i think we'll

get a treasury secretary nod probably in the coming days according to them. we haven't really seen any pick that is going to be hugely satisfying to the more progressive part of the party. what are you picking up from who he is picking so far, chris? >> i agree with you. it is largely a pretty moderate group. look, let's go back to the election. joe biden was not the most liberal candidate, elizabeth warren was more liberal. bernie sanders was much more liberal and biden won. i remember in the debate that i moderated he said mr. president, you forget i beat those guys. and yes, he does need the support of the left and he will try to do everything he can to find it but at age 78 and happy birthday, mr. vice president, or mr. president elect, he is who he is. so you see him picking people like ron klain as his chief of staff and mike donelan and

steve rochettey. these are white, middle age centrist men were with him when he was a senator and the vice president under obama and have gotten key positions in this administration. he will keep his promise and have an administration that has people of color and has women but you just have to wonder when he is making the key decisions with his top most trusted advisors in the room who is it going to be? at least so far it looks like it will be the people he has been comfortable with for the last half century in washington >> martha: what do we have to look forward to this sunday on "fox news sunday", chris? >> you know, as you led with jeff paul, covid is obviously a huge concern. the spikes, people traveling, thanksgiving. we'll have somebody we've had on the show a bunch over the course of these last six to eight months, a doctor from

johns hopkins. not a trump or biden scientist but the pure scientist and the latest facts and also the vaccine and how soon we can expect that to change our lives. we'll also be talking to kate beddingfield, the deputy campaign manager for the biden campaign. a top official in the biden white house and we'll be talking to her about the transition, delay and president trump's efforts to challenge the results of the election. >> martha: we look forward to it. good to see you today. >> thank you, martha. >> it's continued. he has used his social media platform to repeatedly dox me, post my phone number, my home address, my email address and encouraged people to stop by my house and share their anger with me. >> trace: one of two republican officials in michigan who said they were bullied and

intimidated to certify their votes. now they want to rescind the votes. the secretary of state says too late. garrett tenney is live for us in michigan. garrett, can we trust the election results out of michigan? >> trace, that's the million dollar question. the results need to be certified by the state. it can happen as soon as monday. while the vote totals themselves could still change a bit at this point barring any legal action, the outcome is not expected to change with joe biden winning the state. there are, however, still concerns about the election process particularly in wayne county. the state's largest county and them to detroit. the two republican members voted against certifying the election results this week over concerns about discrepancies in the number of ballots recorded as cast and the number of ballots counted. they changed their votes after a brutal public comment period in which they say they were repeatedly threatened and accused of being racist. republicans say they were

promised that a complete independent audit of the county's elections would occur only to have the secretary of state say she is under no obligation to do that. no they want to change their votes. state officials say it's not possible. >> we want everything to balance like your checkbook balances to your bank account and then you can if everything balances then you can recount it. if it doesn't balance you cannot recount it. and that's our goal is to try to get everything in balance. >> we are expecting to hear more from the members of the wayne county board of canvassers at a press conference today. the two top republicans in the michigan state legislature will meet with president trump and discuss the election. if the republican members vote against certifying the election results on monday we'll be in a bit of legal limbo. some state republicans believe the gop controlled legislature could appoint the state's elect

tors themselves potentially selecting ones for those who cast their votes for president trump despite casting them for joe biden. it would be the subject of intense legal battles. as for the two state republican leaders themselves, both have said the winner of michigan's popular vote will receive the state's 16 electoral votes. trace. >> trace: garrett tenney live in michigan. thank you. >> martha: california governor newsom issuing a new coronavirus mandate. house republicans are calling for an investigation into the violence against trump supporters in a rally last weekend. one of them joins us next. congresswoman hice. >> the worst of it for me was to see our country having those types of physical disputes over an election.

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coronavirus relief stimulus check to buy the gun, ar-15 rifle. he is charged with killing two people and wounding a third. his attorneys say rittenhouse was acting in self-defense. [shouting] >> fireworks, fireworks. >> trace: after the violence against some of president trump's supporters at the maga march in d.c. last weekend top republicans on the house oversight committee are demanding hearing. in a letter to carolyn maloney they write the supporters were exercising their first amendment right to peacefully assembly within the district of columbia. the failure of the city's leaders the afford protections for persons who may hold different political viewpoints from their own is another concerning example of viewpoint

discrimination in the district. one of the lawmakers signing that letter joins me now, georgia republican congressman jody hice. it is interesting. you have the president-elect joe biden, a couple of times now is calling for unity and that you have these far left members of his party saying yeah, we'll get to the unity right after we beat the daylights out of a couple trump supporters. what are you hoping these hearings accomplish? what's the goal? >> the first goal would be to have a hearing. we have petitioned chairwoman maloney to proceed with the hearing to let us have one. we've also written a letter to the mayor of d.c., mayor bowser asking what is she planning to do? her silence has been frightening. what we have here is outright viewpoint discrimination. this is washington, d.c. every group imaginable has been here over the years. we have a long history of different groups expressing their viewpoints here with no

problem but now if are you a trump supporter and come to the city you can get beaten up and assaulted in every way and virtually nothing is done about it. the silence is frightening. and so we want to get to the bottom of it. we want to have a hearing to deal with it and we're also wanting some answers from the mayor, what do they plan to do in her administration to allow people to come here and peacefully express their views? >> trace: you want a hearing and answers but you also acknowledge it is hard to get traction and attention when there is not a lot of people that are actually covering this issue. you and your colleagues write also to the chairwoman quoting here despite the violence mainstream media and liberal establishment were quick to minimize the seriousness of the use of violence against trump sporters by deriding them for failing to wear masks and asserting they were infiltrated by white nationalist, conspiracy theorists and far right activists.

it is tough to get residence when you can't force the media to cover this issue. >> that highlights another problem. the media wants to be a part of pushing a political agenda rather than reporting the news and protecting the interests of all americans. and we see that also being played out not only with the media, but also with political leaders. that's why we're petitioning both the mayor and chairwoman maloney. let's bring it to the forefront and look after our constitutional rights as americans to express your beliefs in public square without harassment and of all places it should be protected in washington, d.c. but also obviously in every other city in the country as well. >> trace: you talk about the mayor. a different letter to the mayor you write on a different sub jefjt you aloued protestors to paint defund the police on a city street in june and police department offices arrested

pro-life protestors arrested messages on a sidewalk in chalk. >> it is stunning. what is illegal about some pro-life individuals using chalk to write a pro-life message and being arrested for that while blm individuals are wreaking havoc in the city and nothing is done about it. it is like they have a free pass to act any way they want to and that's okay. but let someone with conservative values or republican interests come to this town, they are silenced and harassed and basically run out of town. that has to stop and that's what we are after and we will not be satisfied until we get some legitimate answers and get this corrected. >> trace: georgia congressman jody hice, thank you for your time, sir. >> martha: michigan restaurants are going to court to try to block a new restriction against indoor dining. does the new order illegally infringe on their rights?

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murphy testing positive for the virus. the destroyer currently docked in hawaii. >> martha: a potential health scare for vladimir putin. the kremlin says the russian president is fine after a coughing fit at a meeting on covid-19. the state media says that putin apologized and continued on with the meeting. >> trace: immigration arrests along the u.s. southern border surged to new highs last month. william la jeunesse is live for us in los angeles and william, what are border officials saying might be causing the increase? >> three things, economic disaster central america, desire to get out because of the pandemic and the pull factor. promises from president-elect biden to end many of trump's restrictive policies. limiting asylum claims. no catch and release and the remain in mexico program. the acting cdc commissioner said dhs was force evidence to

release 500,000. migrants believe and smugglers are selling that biden will legalize immigrants. allow asylum claims and end the remain in mexico program. >> they will exploit these loopholes and further exploit the migrants and you will see a crisis that makes last year's crisis look like child's play. you can take that to the bank. >> apprehensions are up 21% over last month. migrants found in stash houses and tractor trailers, drug seizures up 150%. a federal judge on wednesday ruled the administration cannot turn back illegal migrant children of the border. agents tell me they're finding abandoned children in the desert and the banks of ryo grand with phone numbers written on their skin.

the number of unaccord minors in october was twice as high as july. right now, trace, the border is technically closed. only essential travel confirmed -- commercial trucking. no tourism but they say it is really getting bad and they feel the numbers are just going to increase in the coming months. back to you. >> trace: william la jeunesse live for us in los angeles. thank you. >> martha: california's governor ordering a a month-long core curfew starting tomorrow. bans non-essential gatherings from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. it covers napa county. james gallagher is a republican member of the california state assembly. good to have you with us today. thanks for being here. what is your reaction to this new curfew that has been put in place by the governor? >> what we've learned out here

in california in newsom's california the virus isn't apparent in swanky restaurants that he goes to and not present in the expensive private schools his children attend, it's not in big box stores but it is in the small businesses apparently dangerous and now this curfew apparently the virus is only present during the day and it is very dangerous after 10:00 at night. people out here are very frustrated with the hypocrisy and these arbitrary rules that have no nexus to cases. >> martha: he put out a tweet a while back that said -- not that long ago that says going out to eat with members of your household this weekend, don't forget to keep your masks on in between bites. that's the kind of thing that i think really hurts him a lot when people see these photos. it's one thing to say look, i'm going out for dinner with my friends and i think it will be

fine and i'm making my own choice. another if you're the governor telling everyone across the state they have to behave completely differently. >> exactly. we don't fault him for going out to dinner. i believe people should be able to go out to these small business restaurants who have been struggling throughout this whole period of time. they can follow safety protocols just like home depot. >> martha: what the impact of your state. public schools never did open in california, right? >> they've been shut down for a long time. some jurisdictions are opened up school. i have five children myself. my oldest, it has been a struggle with distance learning starting high school and we've seen it throughout my district and the state. children are having higher rates of mental illness, needing services for that, depression. we are seeing that they are --

the learning loss is exponential. it is having a devastating impact on our youth. certainly in that case the cure is so much worse than the cause here. >> martha: is there a political impact? governor newsom is popular with a lot of people in california. i think there was one, maybe two seats that flipped in the recent house races, democrat to republican. but, you know, can any of this really touch him? >> i think a lot of people are waking up to the fact that there is a lot of hypocrisy on behalf of the governor. they are waking up to the fact that his policies have had a very devastating impact on average californians. there has been a lot of policies, for instance, that have hurt small businesses, that have hurt people's ability to make a living. so i think his popularity is going down and i think we'll see some changes here politically. already people lining up to run against him in the next

gubernatorial election. >> martha: thank you very much. good to have you here today. >> thanks for having me. >> trace: some people who protested after the death of george floyd are now suing the chicago police accusing officers of brutally attacking them during the demonstrations and claim the police arrested them without justification. attorneys for the city say they have yet to receive that lawsuit. >> martha: hundreds of groups calling for president-elect joe biden to erase federal student loan debt on his first day in the white house. on wednesday 239 nonprofit and community organizations wrote an open letter to biden and vice president elect kamala harris saying before the covid-19 public health crisis began student death was already a drag on the national economy weighing heaviest on black and latino communities and women and help narrow the wealth gap bold and immediate action is to

protect student loan borrowers, parents and borrowers by canceling existing debt. they didn't specify how much loan debt should be forgiven. biden has endorsed giving $10,000 as part of the house's heroes act. >> trace: a new legal fight over covid restrictions. michigan governor whitmer is banning indoor dining. now restaurants are fighting back with a new lawsuit. why they say whitmer is out of bounds. that's next plus joe biden apparently flipped georgia blue so will that also play out in the all-important senate runoffs or will the once reliably red state stay that way? sand dollars!! that's how much veteran homeowners can save every year by using their va benefits to refinance at newday. record low rates have dropped to new

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he says he is recovering but he doesn't have a lot of energy right now. he retired from coaching in 2004. in september president trump announced he plans to award holtz the presidential medal of freedom and we wish him a quick recovery. >> trace: michigan governor gretchen whitmer facing legal backlash over new covid restrictions. ordering a ban of indoor dining that took effect wednesday. a trade group is now suing to try and stop it saying restaurants have lost the ability to use their real and personal property in any meaningful economically beneficial manner. plaintiffs have no adequate remedy for this. the president of the michigan restaurant and lodging association joins us now. justin winslow. in the suit what are you hoping for? you want 50% capacity back in the restaurants, 25%, what would you settle for?

>> that's exactly right. we would love the opportunity to get back to doing what we know how to do. safely serve guests and keep our employees safe at the same time. the data in michigan suggests as much. we hope it will allow restaurants to get back to doing what they do best. >> trace: a quick sound bite from the governor and get your response. >> the situation has never been more dire. we are at the precipice and we need to take some action. >> trace: justin, she is right. the situation clearly across the country is getting worse but you know what i find interesting about this is restaurants are always the low hanging fruit, right? restaurants and bars and gyms. low hanging fruit and they are the first ones shut down. i pulled up this study. this is from public health england. the british equivalent of the cdc. they say the number one place in their contact tracing that people report going is the supermarket and all the way down to 16, 1% of people

reported before they got the virus going to a restaurant or cafe and yet nobody is talking about shutting supermarkets and everybody talks about shutting down the restaurants. what do you think about that? >> listen, i think you're right. the numbers don't look great in michigan now and hospitalizations have increased as well. the restaurant industry has become a convenient scapegoat. we have tried very hard to demonstrate how much we put safety at the forefront of everything we do every single day. it shows up in those numbers exactly as you referenced. the numbers in michigan. the contact tracing data occurs is presented and shows minimal transmission from this industry. in fact much lower than many industries that remain open for business right now. we can't help wonder why we're singled out again after being shut down 85 days earlier this year. >> trace: the "wall street journal" ran a story saying they pulled up the numbers showing more than 50% -- up to 75% of the infections we just

don't know where people are getting infected. to point at different industries and schools and so forth is disingenuous. the truth is science matters and we really don't know. i want you -- this is part of the lawsuit quoting on the layoffs. you say more than 40% of restaurants are now likely to close. at least temporarily. these are numbers from the michigan department of health and human services. at least temporarily. 250,000 employees are likely to be laid off from restaurants over the holiday season. big financial hit to your industry as we move toward the holidays. >> yeah, exactly right. we don't talk about this the human toll. 250,000 people laid off over the holidays and we do not have the safety net that was in place earlier in the spring when there were cares act dollars to soften the blow. the blow will be tremendous. 6,000 more restaurants will close in the coming months because of this closure and 250,000 maybe 300,000 employees will lose their jobs and i don't know if they have any of the benefits to help see them

through this. >> trace: i've been reading articles on restaurants across the country and rebust plans, to go meals they're serving and giving the food to make these meals. have you found anything that can at least, you know, try and tide some of these businesses over until maybe you get 25, 50% capacity back? what's the thought there? >> this is -- the restaurant industry is resilient and creative and found a lot of ways to help itself survive. a lot of restaurants learned from the spring what worked and what didn't work. so when you hear that 40% number that means 40% of restaurants know that carry-out or delivery won't get it done for them and they can't afford to lose more money over the coming weeks and months so they'll just stay closed. >> trace: people don't realize in california it's easy to have outside dining for much of the year. michigan not so easy and

devastating for people in the restaurant industry. >> exactly right. winter will be tough in michigan. >> trace: great of you to come on. best of luck to you and your industry. >> martha: georgia's hand recount is now complete and the secretary of state says the reliably red state did vote for joe biden in the 2020 election. what this could mean for the georgia runoffs that will decide the balance of power in the senate. plus school closing new york governor andrew cuomo taking heat over a new book deal on leadership that he wrote as many new yorkers struggle with the impact of his lockdowns. >> our kids were able to go to school every day. get a little bit of life back. get their friends back and get their learning back. 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

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>> trace: the husband of actress lori laugh lin went to prison yesterday. his time behind bars overlaps with his wife. she began her two month sentence last month. >> why is it moving so fast? two reasons. money and ego. the first drug company that has the vaccine, that is big money. you didn't need trump to tell the vaccine companies you should develop a vaccine. he had nothing to do with it. >> martha: there you have it. andrew cuomo on the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine and some critics say the governor himself appears to be profiting from the pandemic with a new book called "american crisis" that has become a best seller. let's bring in carley shimkus

with fox news headlines 24/7. the book is called "american crisis" as i just mentioned. it says american crisis is a remarkable portrait of selfless leadership and gritty story about the difficult choices that points the way to a safer future for all of us. he is running into some head w*inds given the history of his handling of this in new york. >> writing a book about a crisis while the crisis is going on a risky and wildly self-righteous. to profit off the pandemic as people in his state are left reeling from shutdowns is next level. keep in mind governor cuomo, he works for new yorkers. they pay his salary. so it's very easy for him to keep shutdowns going longer than they should have when he doesn't have to pay the financial burden. i don't think he would have written this book if he didn't

have the assurance that people wouldn't criticize him for it. he stands to make a sizeable amount of money. the last book he wrote made him about $800,000. he does say that he is going to donate a portion of the proceeds to a coronavirus entity of some sort but he didn't say how much that would be. i say donate the whole thing. i think that would be the right thing to do. >> martha: his demeanor has changed dramatically. in the early stages of this he was praised for his daily news conferences he was keeping people up to date and people were watching it on a daily basis. the dynamic has completely changed between him and the press at this point, hasn't it? >> yeah. well it has in a way although i do still think a lot of the media is still letting him slide to a certain extent especially when you consider president trump was vehemently criticized for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic if his

legal challenges don't pan out you can say with confidence it cost him the election. president trump practiced what he preached. he didn't say everybody must wear a mask while he didn't wear one himself. it feels like certain lawmakers are working off different sets of rules. one for the ruling class and the other for the rest of us. so it's just a bit of hypocrisy that we are seeing right now as the coronavirus pandemic continues. as the rules are becoming more stringent in terms of locking down even in people's own homes. thanksgivings only allowed to have 10 people at them. when the government starts to feel like an overbearing parent it does feel like the government has gone a bit too far. >> martha: i can't even imagine what the economic impact is going to be over the holidays, carley, with christmas coming when you think about what new york city generally looks like at christmastime. the streets are packed, teaming with people, tourists coming in

to see the christmas tree. all of that. these lockdowns that have been imposed by the governor have been devastating to what i believe is the greatest city in america. >> you are so right. as i was coming into work today for folks who haven't seen new york city right now, which i'm sure is the majority of people watching, there are still christmas lights on a lot of the buildings and i was left feeling a little sad but also proud regarding the american spirit around still trying to make your businesses the best they possibly can be even in the face of more possible lockdowns to come. >> martha: i know. there is a lot of tremendous new york spirit out there fighting through to show some christmas as we head towards the season. carley, thank you very much. good to see you. >> trace: the georgia recount going to biden now comes the new battle for control of the u.s. senate. has the peach state turned blue?

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>> martha: one animal rights group trying to get freedom for an elephant. the group wants to move happy the elephant from an enclosure in the bronx zoo to an animal sanctuary where she can be happier. judges are skeptical for personhood for happy. >> trace: 300 pounds a food of day she eats. >> martha: that's a big person. >> trace: that's a big person. results are in. more than two weeks after election day joe biden has apparently won georgia after the state conducted a recount by hand. all eyes are on the two senate runoffs in georgia. the big question there is whether the peach state really has turned blue or will flip back to red. matt finn following this live for us in atlanta. matt. >> trace, democrats are

chalking up a major victory in the presidential election in georgia. trying to keep that momentum going. georgia's two republican senators are insisting they have now become the last line of defense from democrats controlling washington there are high profile names on both sides and major cash pouring into the state right now. vice president mike pence is scheduled to travel to two campaign events here in georgia today for republican senators kelly loeffler and david are perdue fighting to keep their jobs in the runoff races that determine the balance of power in the u.s. senate. pence is scheduled to go to georgia where he will be in rallies in two cities today. in georgia's presidential election right now georgia secretary of state is preparing to certify georgia's vote with president-elect joe biden as the winner. president trump's campaign will then have two business days to request a recount. georgia's republican secretary of state says he is a

conservative trump supporter who is disappointed the president did not win in georgia. meanwhile georgia's republican senator kelly loveler doesn't agree with the secretary of state and calls for him to resign. >> working as an engineering throughout my life i lived by the motto that numbers don't lie. as secretary of state i believe that the numbers that we have presented today are correct. >> i have suggested the secretary of state should step down. we need to have control over our elections. someone has to be accountable. the buck stops with the secretary of state. >> georgia secretary of state is also calling for a photo i.d.s to be required for mail-in ballots. >> martha: matt finn live in atlanta. thank you. >> trace: fox news alert. white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany is about to hold her first press briefing in two months as president trump prepares to host members of the michigan state legislature at the white house this afternoon as his campaign fights to overturn the results

in battleground states won by president-elect joe biden and welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm trace gallagher. martha, good morning to you. >> martha: good to be with you this morning. i'm martha maccallum. the trump campaign is floating the idea of recruiting republican state legislatures to invite friendly electors. it is sparking protests at the airport with demonstrators hounding mike shirky as he was leaving to go to the white house. >> we're hearing from two republican canvassers in michigan's biggest county tried to rescind their votes. they said they were bullied online. >> he used his social media platform to repeatedly dox me, post my phone number, my home address, my email address and

encouraged people to stop by my house and share their anger with me. i'm lucky to have a supportive family. they are behind me 100%. they believe that i'm doing the right thing and we're just taking it one day at a time. >> martha: what a situation. kevin corke is reporting live from the white house today. hi, kevin. >> great to be with you. talking about intimidation and an invitation right here to the white house for gop legislators in michigan. the latest twist in the ongoing effort by the trump campaign to invalidate what officials believe was the outright theft of the election. by the way, michigan's gop majority leader is spotted at washington reagan airport ahead of white house meetingsment there are numerous challenges across the country supported by the president's campaign, michigan is giving it a close look. two republicans looking to

rescind their certification of the vote and where they say voting irregularities warrant further examination. >> yeah. it is absolutely needed. the purpose of the canvas is to make sure every legal vote is counted and tallied right. that you have complete and accurate documentation and when you have a precinct that's unbalanced without an explanation it doesn't satisfy the requirement. >> meantime lawyers for the president are expanding their claims of widespread fraud saying it was a massive organized plot to change people's votes but in a statement team biden called yesterday's press conference of rudy giuliani a spectacle writing no matter how hard trump and giuliani try they can't overturn the will of the american people who picked joe biden to be the next president of the united states. as you mentioned a very busy day at the white house. we have a press briefing coming

up with kayleigh mcenany at 12:00. the president will be in the roosevelt room talking about lowering the cost of prescription drugs and a read-out on the meeting with michigan lawmakers, back to you. >> trace: >> trace: fox news alert. covid-19 cases surge across the u.s. forcing new lockdowns in some states and advisory from the cdc warning americans against traveling for thanksgiving. all of this comes as pfizer applies for emergency approval of its covid-19 vaccine today. >> i don't want to speak for the agency. what i can tell from our side is we will be ready within hours from receiving the email or fax of the approval to start distributing our vaccine. >> trace: ready within hours. david lee miller is live in new

york with more. david lee. >> trace, americans can start receiving a coronavirus vaccine by the middle of next month. the first in line will be high-risk groups such as the elderly. as you just mentioned today's drug maker pfizer and its partner are applying for the emergency use authorization for the vaccine. according to the trials it is safe and 95% effective rate. it plans to have 50 million doess available and 1.3 billion next year. alex azar said he is ready to roll up his sleeve. >> i'll ask to take the vaccine as soon as anybody will let me. i want to demonstrate to the american people my sincere confidence in the independence of the process and the quality of the data. >> meanwhile the virus continues to rage. each day nearly 200,000 new cases in the u.s.

hospitals in many areas are at or near capacity. state and local governments are implementing new restrictions to try to prevent the spread. in california with the number of infections spiking kur fuse will go into effect tomorrow. it impacts more than 90% of all people in california. in new hampshire people have to mask up after the governor issued an executive order. minnesota people won't be frequenting bars, restaurants or gyms for weeks or longer. according to the cdc the safest way to celebrate the thanksgiving holiday is simply by staying at home. nevertheless an interesting statistic from aaa, they say as many as 50 million americans are still planning to hit the road for the upcoming holiday trace. >> trace: david lee, thank you very much. breaking today florida senator rick scott is now the seventh

senator to contract the coronavirus. he is now quarantining in florida coming after 87-year-old iowa senator chuck grassley tested positive for covid on tuesday forcing senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to send all senators home for thanksgiving a day early. >> this is a poll worker, a lawyer who came up to him and said i'm being told to pre-date ballots. a ballot comes in late but i was told to pre-date it early so that it counts. the poll watcher nonpartisan poll watcher handed him a sticky note and wrote down change the date of ballot from 11-4 to 11-2. these are the kind of fraud claims that have given the wayne county board pause and they should be investigated. >> martha: kayleigh mcenany pushing back after critics claim there is no evidence of election fraud. some allies admitting the legal

challenges are a long shot what is the endgame in all of this for president trump? "the washington examiner" believes this is the beginning of the president's 2024 campaign. let's bring in fox news contributor marc thiessen. columnist and former george w. bush speech writer. great to talk to you this morning. i'm interested to get your thoughts on this as you watch and listen to the attorneys, hear kayleigh mcenany making her claim. the criticism is the substance is not -- you see things here and there like she pointed to. what is your take on it and where do you stand on this right now? >> i think it's possible that some voter fraud took place but number one. in michigan donald trump is trailing by 153,000 votes. he is not going to overturn the results in that state. he would have to overturn the results in three states all of which he is trailing by tens of thousands of votes. it never happened in american history and won't happen now. he has got to start focusing on

the future. the reality is that he is the first president in 132 years who has a realistic chance of coming back to reclaim the presidency four years after yuntion it. the last one was grover cleveland in 1888. when george hw booush retired and jimmy carter retired. trump has 73 million voerts, an army of voters willing to walk across broken glass for him but he has to do it in a way if he will run that doesn't alienate all the swing voters who really liked his policies but didn't like him and didn't vote for him this time and why he lost the election. he alienated a lot of people. he has to convince them if he wants to take back the white house in four years. >> martha: voters came out in huge numbers for president trump. 10 million more than last time around. the effort to reach out to

people who were skeptical about him wasn't where the energy went in the election, right? so the question becomes if he is serious about considering another run, which he certainly could do in 2024 with the enormous support he did get in this election, 73 million people how would you advise him in terms of,000 play what's going on right now? >> i laid out an eight-point plan in my column and basically the -- the short version is this. cooperate with the biden transition while pursuing legal challenges. keep pursuing them but told hold up transition of warp speed. when the electoral college declares joe biden the winner say you accept the results even if you don't accept and stepping aside for the good of the country even if you don't accept the results. announce you are running in 2024 and lead the republican party to keep control of the senate in georgia so you go out

on a win and victory. the first salvo of the 2024 campaign. then deliver a farewell address from the white house that says i shall return. invite biden to the white house, ride with him to the capitol. lead with dignity and lead the republicans to take back the house in 2022. there are 26 seats that democrats won. they almost lost it this time. 26 seats they only won by 52% of the vote or less. he could kick out nancy pelosi in two years and take back the presidency in two years. the biden presidency won't be the start of some great progressive era. but to do that he has to behave rationally right now or he will alienate a lot of people. >> martha: sounds like sound political advice. when you look ahead at 2022 and the ground work that could be laid by republicans, the president who leaves after a first term is always the standard bearer of his party. he continues to have that

mantel. in my lifetime i can't think of anyone who will be able to do that more powerful mri than president trump given the effect that he has had on so many people in this country. here is newt gingrich talking about the possibilities for 2022 for democrats and republicans in the house. watch this. so i'll read it. the democrats and left wing media allies have been cher foo*ully predicting they would gain 15 seats or more because of president trump's unpopularity. the brilliant recuteing by kevin mccarthy and his team led to a house republican gain of at least eight seats. he is echoing the situation as you see it. one of the things that i think could have an impact on how people vote in 2022 are the choices that president-elect biden makes for his cabinet. there is a lot of indications that warren or sanders is going to have to throw some bone to the progressives in one way or

the other. how do you see that playing out, marc? >> it depends on georgia. it depends on whether republicans keep the senate in georgia. if republicans lose control of the senate democrats cannot only confirm warren and sanders to cabinet posts, they can pass any radical legislation they want. they can pack the court. pack the senate by adding states and safe democratic senate seats so we can't take back the senates. everything is at stake in georgia. i'm worried the president is distracted by this effort to overturn an election that is not going to get overturned when he should focus on 2024 and rallying the base to turn out. if his people don't turn out in georgia we'll lose the senate. that simple. donald trump has the key to keeping the senate in georgia. he needs to focus on that and make it the first salvo of his reelection campaign and not focus on the last election. >> martha: it's an astute assessment as you always make. if president trump doesn't get

behind these candidates and campaign for them, i think them getting across the finish line will be a huge question mark. >> absolutely. >> martha: thank you, marc. >> trace: cdc urging people not to travel for progressive as ocasio-cortez says people should be paid to stay home. we'll have the latest on coronavirus restrictions but first the devastating impact the virus has had on the economy. could the vaccine submitted today for approval help turn the whole thing around? economic advisor larry kudlow joins us live next. attention veteran homeowners: record low mortgage rates have dropped even lower. at newday, veterans can shortcut the refinance process and save $250 a month. $3000 dollars a year. with the va streamline refi at newday, there's no appraisal, no income verification,

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>> trace: vice president mike pence is on his way to georgia for stump for the candidates. he is the most high profile republican to hit the trail with david perdue and kelly loeffler who face runoff elections in january. the democrats john ossoff and warnock got a boost from former president obama when he stumbled for them. it will decide which policies joe biden pursues as president

with who wins. the resurge in coronavirus dragging down job growth two federal officials are sounding the alarm on the economy heading into the fourth quarter. watch. >> the fact that we don't have a fiscal package is very concerning. the impact of this pandemic is where fiscal policy plays a role. fiscal policy can be really tar g*eted to households and small businesses that really need the aid. >> trace: joining me now is larry kudlow. good to see you. the sound you just heard there the feds sounding the alarm because the lack of a fiscal package that can be targeted toward people suffering because of the coronavirus. your thoughts on that? >> there are a couple of things here, trace. first of all, i would agree with what she just said, a targeted assistance package. we are working on repurposing unused funds for exactly that,

treasury secretary mnuchin and mark meadows meeting with republican leader kevin mccarthy and senator mitch mcconnell. we can talk about those talks if you care to yes targeted, not $3 trillion. stuff like small businesses, airlines perhaps, restaurants, just those targets. second point i want to make is i'm sorry but i disagree with her and some others. i do not think the economy is slowing down. let me be precise. people are mistaking this unemployment claims, initial unemployment claims. in this pandemic the best number to use is continuing claims plus the pandemic employment assistance program. that's the total. it is actually fallen by 1.5 million since the last jobs reporting period in mid-october. i don't see the slowdown and i think you'll get a pretty good number in a few weeks for the month of november. other stuff, housing is booming.

consumer spending is booming. automobiles are booming. just booming. it is a strong v-shaped recovery. the atlanta federal reserve we didn't get ahead of that. the atlanta fed is saying their gdp model you get 5 1/2% growth in q4 following the remarkable 33% in q3. i think there are risks if you are going to ask me about that, there are pandemic risks, virus hot spot risks. i get that. all i'm saying is what we know, trace, on jobs and housing and retailing and cars and other areas, the economy is very hot. >> trace: you talk about the economy, housing market you're right is booming and so is the job market -- the car market, automobile market. you talked about the v-recovery. i want to put the chart on the screen. going back to the jobs market you had the v-recovery. now it starting to flatten out and come down in the

coronavirus hot spots. i just want to 15, 20 seconds on this. >> i'm not sure where those numbers come from because again since may we've had 18 million reduction in unemployment claims of all kinds continuing in the pandemic. i'm not sure i get that particular chart. look, 12 1/2 million new jobs have been added back. we're 50% of the way home, trace. i admit there is hardship, there is virus risk, no question about that, we're following it very closely. that's why we would like to repurpose a lot of these unused funds to help small businesses and their payrolls and hard-hit industries like restaurants and airlines. let's repurpose it and get moving on that. >> trace: numbers came out of the "wall street journal." the big news of the week the vaccine. all the great news coming out from moderna and pfizer, pfizer

applied for fda approval today and believe they can get it out starting tomorrow. timeline is everything. how quick you get the injections to people is really the ballgame. how much economic impact is that going to have and what do you believe the timeline is? its "hard for me to predict. pharma companies submit it to the fda and fda act rapidly. deregulated their processes and part of the president's warp speed campaign which is paying dividends. incredible in six months stuff that would take 5 to 10 years. >> trace: can i talk to you on the warp speed? we had somebody say they're concerned about the warp speed being slowed down because the president is not really cooperating with this transition. very quickly on that. >> i'm sorry, i just can't agree with that. one thing has nothing to do with the other. the warp speed is in place. we have provided billions of dollars across the board to

biotech and pharmas developing terrific their piece as well as the vaccines. the fda will move real fast and very likely. i was with the president this morning. it is likely we'll have perhaps as much as 20 million vaccine packages in play before december is over and maybe more. and that is going to be en route to early next year literally hundreds of millions of vaccines will go out because we've streamlined this entire process and the brilliance of the private sector folks with whom we work very closely and yes, it will be a terrific economic tonic. it will help everybody, small business, the kids can go back to school. they should have never left school. we don't want to shut down the economy. the vaccine -- you know what? i will put it to you this way.

nation -- i think the nation will have a collective sigh of relief and even more confidence that we can get back to normal low taxes, deregulation and rapid economic growth. a sigh of relief, trace, that's what i think is going to happen. >> trace: the nation is hoping you are right. thank you for joining us. >> martha: so the cdc is advising all of us to stay home this thanksgiving. how is the message resonating as a growing number of lawmakers keep getting caught breaking their own rules? with the pandemic causing problems in the job market one major company is actually giving its workers a raise. we'll tell you who that is when we come back.

>> martha: pfizer announcing it will aplay to get emergency approve all for their coronavirus vaccine sometime today. early tests of the shots have been promising with two separate injections appearing to be 95% effective. >> trace: the f.b.i. arresting a man accused of crashing a drone into a police helicopter. the nation's first case of somebody being charged with unsafely operating a drone. happened in hollywood in september. the lapd said it damaged the

chopper's nose. if it had hit the rotor the results could have been tragic. >> martha: many companies are suffering from layoffs starbucks is giving its barista's a raise. they'll see a 10% boost in their wages. >> i come from a state we currently have the worst governor in am. governor cuomo has attended private events without wearing masks or requiring social distancing. i'm looking forward to wishing my constituents a happy thanksgiving. people should have the freedom to make the right decisions based on their personal health and family situation. >> trace: this congresswoman blasting governor cuomo over the policies for thanksgiving gathersings. lawmakers are caught ignoring their guidelines.

let's bring in our panelist, marie harf and guy benson. we look add california and new york and the governors. i want your thoughts on the cdc. it is not a regulatory agency and they don't give mandates. a lot of the new guidelines are bound to be ignored. what do you think about what's happening right before thanksgiving and the new different suggestions being given out by various agencies? >> well look, it is hard because cases are exploding, hospitalizations are way up. we have to be careful. we also have been through a bruising nine months with people desperate to see their loved ones and to feel slightly normal even just during the holiday season. so there is a tension there. i think people need to be smart and safe. what we're doing, we saw the cdc guidance. got on the phone with our family and had a conference call about it. got tested this morning. we're isolating and have been for a couple of days.

we'll be careful about what we do and what we don't do but we are going to have a family thanksgiving. we'll cap it, small group of people compared to what it might be otherwise. people my wag their fingers at that. people have to make choices for themselves. for their families, for their loved ones. we'll try to be as safe as we possibly can. >> trace: what do you think, marie? >> well look, guy is right. it's a tough issue. i would say that people should not be thumbing their nose at the guidelines. doctors and nurses are begging us to listen to them. what guy outlined is a fairly reasonable set of guidelines that he is following that he feels safe with. the challenging problem is that many leading republican elected officials are just totally coming out against the restrictions and making fun of them. personal freedom trumps everything else.

this is a disturbing pattern. this week those republicans have pushed two stories. rejected covid restrictions that doctors are asking us to follow and many are pushing to reject the election results that the american people voted in november. both are a broader trend that are disturbing. both are a rejection of masks, expertise, science. both are dangerous to the american people and our democracy. they are related. we can't keep telling people that whatever their feelings are or whatever they want to do is okay. that's just not the case. >> trace: and yet while she is pointing fingers at republicans it's democrats in hot water like the governor of california who just blew up the rules that he put in place when he went to a dinner that was not socially distanced, did not have masks, had too many people, was indoors. they had to shut it. it was loud. every rule you can imagine he broke. a state assemblyman in california said this, guy, i'll get your response.

>> in newsom's california the virus is apparently not present in swanky restaurants that he goes to. it is not present in the expensive private schools that his children attend. it is not in big box stores but it is in the small businesses is apparently dangerous. >> trace: between newsom on the west coast and andrew cuomo on the east coast it gets contentious. 30 seconds, guy. >> it is not just those two. nancy pelosi at the hair salon. bowser in d.c. little exceptions for themselves. it's more dangerous and harmful. democrats in many cases are saying the right thing when it comes to covid and then some of these leaders are going out in their own lives and doing the wrong thing and the little people notice that. they pay attention. the little people i put in quotes, we notice that.

we see what they're doing and notice the hypocrisy and those are lessons that get internalized. it breeds resentment and distrust and that's part of the problem we have in the country. >> trace: last word. democrats aren't really walking the walk. >> well most democrats are but look. it was very stupid what gavin new some and others have done. follow the rulers you put in place. i am outraged by republican leaders who aren't trying and won't put mask mandates in all and encourage people to wear masks but sure, we should all live by the rules and restrictions and guidelines that doctors and nurses are begging us to follow right now. we have a quarter of a million dead americans, trace. we don't want that many more. before we get this vaccine, which we know is coming. >> trace: good point. >> we're close. >> trace: we are oef very close. fda approval could come for pfizer today.

they say they're ready to get this stuff out tomorrow. thank you both. great stuff. martha. >> martha: thanks, trace. joe biden announcing more picks to fill out his white house staff. peter doocy is following the president elect in wilmington, delaware. what did we learn today? >> we learned that when you are the president-elect you don't have to go to washington for meetings. washington comes to you. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are on their way here for a sit down with the president-elect shortly. those leaders are set to do whatever biden wants. he still hasn't told us which republicans he has spoken to claiming that republicans will have an epiphany and want to work with him. mcconnell hasn't gotten a call, either. pelosi and schumer are the highest ranking decision makers he has had contact with. he claims that he is getting his updates about operation warp speed just like the rest of us on tv.

there has been a change in biden's tone. not only does he now say no national shutdown even though he previously said if scientists recommended a shutdown he would do it. he has moved past his skepticism of a covid shot that it will be required for everybody in the country. >> we have to actually get vaccinations into the arms of 330 million americans. that takes enormous resources. >> expect more staff announcement shortly. joe biden's 78th birthday is today. >> martha: happy birthday to joe biden. 78 years old today. thank you very much. >> trace: members of the so-called squad in congress telling nancy pelosi not to blame democrats disappointing election on progressives but an election analyst in the nation's heartland says the

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>> we're not trying our case in the court of public opinion. if we were we would get unbiased jurors. i would strike 99% of you from the jury and i would be allowed to because of the fake news coverage you provide. you are not unbiased jurors. >> martha: she slammed the lack of media coverage who refused to broadcast the news conference held by the president's legal team. we showed it here on fox news. howie kurtz is the host of "media buzz". i don't know how you don't cover this. it is a huge story that the president has not conceded more than two weeks after the election. you know, separate from how anyone might feel about it, it is clearly a story.

>> well an hour and a half is a lot to ask any network to cover. the other networks should have covered a piece of it. i say that they and the rest of the media spent the last 24 hours criticizing and mocking and constantly talking about the presser they declined to air. part of it is the networks have grown weary of rudy giuliani. he tends to filibuster and makes unsupported fraud claims. part of it is political. they not only believe joe biden won the election. fox projected that as well but president trump should have conceded by now. >> martha: this is a tweet from chris krebs saying the press conference was the most dangerous hour of television in american history and the craziest. if you don't know what i'm talking about you're lucky. the point i'm making regardless of the substance of it. we've been pushing for substance on this story and

reporting the incidents here and there that do hold up, the larger questions of this conspiracy to change votes that comes from other countries has not been substantiated by any evidence that they have been able to give us. so that is what makes this a very tough story to cover. >> yeah. they are trying in the court of public opinion and why you have a press conference. i've covered rudy giuliani for years. talking about an international conspiracy yesterday i almost didn't recognize. a sad sight. their strategy is to attack the press which have been reporting facts, for example they've lost most of their legal cases. conspiracy claims they put forth yesterday they haven't made in court and that was an effort to get republican legislators to try to -- by appointing pro-trump electors and why the coverage has taken

a more alarming term. >> martha: anyone who covered any legal story knows the way attorneys get their story out is by giving you some of the information that they've got and then you follow up on it and you find out if you can substantiate it. they are denying that part of the process saying that they are not going to expose their -- rudy giuliani says he won't expose his witnesses to the press. you can't give without getting something to go on. >> vicious press. how will journalists attempt to confirm it. you have a number of conservative journalist tucker carlson pushing back against the way giuliani and the legal team are handling this. i think it has become something of a spectacle. >> martha: always good to talk to you. thanks. >> thank you.

>> trace: president trump's team was making its case at the headquarters of the rnc. over at the dnc some democrats were demonstrating against fellow democrats. the divide that is splitting the party is next. if these beautiful idaho potato recipes are just side dishes, then i'm not a real idaho potato farmer. genuine idaho potatoes not just a side dish anymore. always look for the grown in idaho seal.

>> we have worked with the biden administration to secure commitment on a $2 trillion climate plan. we're not going to stop there. we're going to organize and demand this administration, which i believe is kind and honorable keep their promise. >> trace: progressive democrats acting to make sure their priorities aren't ignored as moderates claim their proposals hurt the whole party.

let's bring in a talk radio host and ceo of the public relation firm. you have republicans calling out democrats and democrats calling out democrats and nancy pelosi oddly silent about the internal fighting in her own party. your thoughts? >> she has got a challenge but i think she understands that they lost races across the country because of some of the things that started here in minneapolis from the killing of george floyd and then the pouring out. it wasn't just the words, it was what people saw and then in the suburbs specifically and in races that probably weren't even on democrats' radar the defund police combined with some concerns about safety and the support of police by middle america's voters proved to be a problem for them. >> trace: you make a good point. we have the numbers to back it up. "wall street journal" democrats say the far left proposals did not hurt and was not part of

the democrats' disappointing election. wall this journal in omar's own district joe biden out performed her 80% to 64.3%. almost a 16-point margin in her district. somebody is saying something in that district. your thoughts. >> it's not just that district. we started to notice on election night in minnesota. it is not -- omar's district is largely urban and she will be popular here but when you start to even get outside of her district to the more suburban districts biden was winning by 10, 12 points and legislative democrats were losing by a few points. minnesota has a tradition of split ticket voters. this year they needed something to slight on and it was very clear that there was covid fatigue and crime and safety, public safety became a divisive issue. >> trace: the all important senate races in georgia they are using defund police.

watch this quickly and i will get your final comments. >> schumer, pelosi, all fought change, defund police. voting rights for illegal immigrants, washington, d.c. as the 51st state. >> then we change america. >> change is coming to america. >> believe them. >> trace: you have david perdue trying to use the defund police thing in his favor. your final thoughts on this for us. >> democrats have to get away from that message and the socialism message if they want to continue to compete in the suburbs. for the long term. both parties have always had these issues and found a way to get away from them. this is what is front and center for democrats right now. >> trace: thank you for coming on, sir. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> martha: fox news alert. moments away from white house press briefing. the first one in over seven weeks. press secretary kayleigh mcenany will speak to the media as president trump continues

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>> it's not only been since the election but since october 1st, 7 weeks since kayleigh mcenany was at the white house briefing room and it's interesting to see how she threads the needle because she has been wearing two hats lately. the white house press secretary but also the trump campaign spokesperson. while she tells us that the focus of this briefing today will be on the vaccine, no doubt the election will come up and do those two worlds sort of intersect when it comes to the transition period with a string of reporters calling on the white house -- republicans calling on the white house to release those resources. also likely to come up is this meeting the president is having with michigan state lawmakers in the wake of those to wayne county canvas board members wanting to rescind their votes. then we will likely hear some about president-elect biden taking a meeting in delaware

with speaker pelosi and minority leader schumer. >> no doubt a lot of questions, one of which might be when we will hear from the president. thank you very much, good to see you today. >> great to see you, great to work with you. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> harris: we will begin where we are awaiting the white house press briefing that could happen at any moment now, straight up noon on the east coast. the first briefing since the election and more than seven weeks ago was the last time we saw the white house press briefing. press secretary kayleigh mcenany about to take questions from reporters as the trump campaign wages a legal fight over the election results. along those lines, president trump is set to meet with republican leaders from michigan, the house and senate in that state today. at the white house, to republicans out of a detroit area county