this election. thanks to both of you. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. thanks to everyone at home watching the beat. i hope you have a great weekend. i'll be back monday night 6:00 p.m. eastern. find me online. instagram and twitter. rite now keep it locked it's joy reid. >> today with nearly every u.s. state now officially a coronavirus hot spot. 78 million americans will reminded why they decided to vote for joe biden. the president-elect released a presidential statement. urging hope during this worsening crisis saying i know people are tired. this will not go on forever. and adding that urgent action is needed totd.

now. starting with acknowledgment of how serious the current situation is. today the leader of the current administration addressed the nation. emerging from the white house where he's been stewing for a week. and hiding from the shame of becoming a one term president. that acknowledgment that never happened. instead the antiscience president took credit for breakthrough therapy. making sure to dangle the vaccine before a democratic governor who didn't play nice. and something like this. >> we won't go to a lock down. i will not go. this add mirs will not go to lock down. hopefully the whatever happens in the future who knows, which administration it will be. time will tell. >> which administration do you mean, sir? 950,000 covid infections have been reported.

7,500 americans have died. look at this devastating map. covid is exploding. to new levels across the country. hospitals are again at full capacity. with schools and the economy in chaos. trump infected his own family. leadership and staff. and 130 secret service members are infected because he needed big rallies. he continues to ignore the reality of the pandemic he's ignoring the reality of the histor historic loss to joe biden. his refusal to concede is not just a threat to tradition but but democracy. something president obama addressed. >> when donald trump won. i stayed up until 2:30 in the morning and called. to congratulate him. his margin of victory over clinton wasn't greater than joe biden margin over him.

the peaceful transfer of power, the notion that any of us who attain an elected office, whether it's dogcatcher or president. are servants of the peep. it's a temporary job. we're not above the rules or law. that's the essence of democracy. >> joining me now biden campaign senior adviser. great to see you. congratulations to the campaign. i can officially say that to you now. the election is over. peacefully hand power over to the birther who pushed the conspiracy theory he wasn't even really a president. he managed to do too. all the presidents who lost. they managed to do it. on and on. this is i want to play a bit of the way the current administration is behaving.

a whole week plus after they lost the election. >> we're moving forward here at the white house. there will be a second trump term. >> it would look bad if he didn't attend the inauguration. sour grapes, wouldn't it? >> the president will attend his own inauguration. he would have to be there, in fact. >> as irritating and silly and embarrassing. walk us through how much it is complicating the work that you all have to do to plan to govern. >> thank you for having me. it's always great to be here with you. those clips you showed i think might be concerning for a number of people across the country. they are wondering if the current president of the united states is not recognizing what's happening. what does that mean for the democracy. is in fact in tact.

and president-elect joe biden transition is moving forward. would we like a concession from the current president of the united states, yes. it's the presidential thing to do the right thing to do. it's something that is a hallmark of the democracy. presidents whether democrat or republican have participated in the peaceful transition of power for years. and that is really an under score and foundation of who we are as america. you saw not just the statement from president-elect biden today. he was meeting with his covid-19 task force today. earlier this week he announced the task force and did a briefing. he and vice president-elect kamala harris were meeting and talking about the aca. affordable care act and what they would do in the add mirs to protect preexisting condition. president-elect announced his

chief of staff. ron klain. we're moving forward. and the current administration antics are not keeping the transition and the next president of the united states joe biden and the next vice president kamala harris from doing their due diligence. >> ron klain. i want to play what he said to my friend lawrence. last word last night. >> joe biden has spoken to republicans. he's spoken to republicans senators and republican governors. i won't go into names. >> can you tell us a little bit more specifically has have republicans senators contacted and called vice president-elect biden and specifically acknowledged to him he will be the next president? >> yes. again, president-elect biden as ron noted has spoken with a range of individuals.

we have ran out the conversation that the president-elect had with former president bush. and we haven't read out the other conversations because it requires two parties to agree to do that. we'll respect -- >> you're saying senators. republican senators have done that. >> yes, joy. republican senators. sitting y sitting united states senators, yes. >> joining me now. michael steel. senior adviser for the lincoln project. and former obama campaign manager. you heard her say that republican senators are calling but it requires two people to agree to let it out. what does it say about the republican party that these people are too aafraid to go public and say the obvious that joe biden is the president-elect of the united states. >> it says what it's been saying for four years.

they are hostage to one person. i appreciate the fact they made the overture to the president-elect directly. that bodes well. youns get the obstacle and obvious problem out of the way, you can probably see a sort of thawing if you will, of the relationship that is going to be that needed to be formed in order to tackle the big things ahead. if a senator sitting senator republican senator wants to make the private call and ask the vice president not to disclose the call is made, that's fine. what that says is joe biden now knows he has someone to work with when he becomes officially the president of the united states. and can maybe at that point the phone call will be revealed. i'm not going to make much more of in a negative way. than that. we know what the obstacle is. and as soon as that is gone, we

can move on. >> don't take him into battle. obviously they ain't the bravest in the world. >> you'll have to -- joe biden has to build a coalition. to get the things he wants done. >> i get it. cowards can be in there too. i i hear you. >> not can be. they have to be. the numbers aren't there for the democrats in the united states senate. >> not as of now. we have heard some governors. gnome. who state is on fire with covid. saying i don't care. ron desantis and republican governors who are steeped in this religion of antimask, antidoing anything to stop doing covid. they want it to rip through communities. senators want to do the same thing. walk us through if you were advise r joe biden how to deal with people like that? how can you form a strategy to get a vaccine out and stop the hell we are trapped in.

if you are dealing with governors and senators like that. >> my sense is you'll get a corporation on the vaccine. they bought into the story that trump was going to deliver a vaccine ahead of the election. yes, the issue here is we need universal social distancing. mask wearing. many states not the ones you mentioned are putting out strict guidelines around holiday gatherings. that's the challenge. we're in this together. joe biden is so skilled, he's got a high eq. successful through the career working across the aisle. heel have to find a governor like gnome who just refuses despite all the evidence. maybe she'll be supportive of the economic are leaf. you'll have to find your areas. the question is when you think about this period, we expected this from trump. tragically. is this the only time in the next ten to 20 years we have

people who louz elections refuse to concede? who say it doesn't matter what the voters did. i won, you lost. that's the question. if this gets normalized democracy won't survive. that's the. >> great photograph here. of the white house staff. listening to president obama speak. this was in the rose garden. remember the faces. you do it because you're an adult. you are a grown up and may not like it. it's the way democracy works. really quickly on the question of the next fight is going to be who can be on the team. who can get confirmed by the united states senate. i want you to each answer. somebody might be able to be there for intel. start with you, michael and then david. how hard is this fight going to be? is mcconnell going to be given a veto over the biden cabinet. >> i don't think so.

okay, i know that there's a record you can go back to how obama came in and mcconnell said there. i think there are circumstances that don't exist here. a personal relationship between the two men. that goes back a significant amount of time. two, i think the majority leader has already signalled that he this is not going to be a difficult road for the vice president, president-elect to give his nominees through. i think there's going to be a high level of corporation this time around. given the gravity of the issues that need to be addressed. and quite honestly, the hollowing out of the cabinet level offices by this current administration. we cannot sustain that. he knows that. we have a budget that will be

fought over starting in two weeks. and you have covid-19. i think there's fwoing to be more corporation than a lot of people suspect. >> it's not the black guy. maybe it's a more respect for him. maybe i'm mean. the other question obviously in forming cabinet. biden has to look internally. you have interest groups saying wait a minute, we want to make sure people who have a progressive mind set and that fight is already starting to happen. how that he shapes his cabinet. how do you think that will play out? >> i can agree with michael. even if mcconnell decides he wants veto, biden can play along. he'll just get killed politically and say i'll nominate people who mcconnell says is okay. secondly, this is the team he's building.

these aren't just names on a sheet of paper about who is left. left center. who can run the health department. who can be a great attorney general. that's not a sexy name. who can actually do the job. manage big agencies and handle crisis. given the pandemic and economic challenge and the threat of climate change, he needs the people he wants in seat. we all need to give joe biden quite a bit of room. we have so much riding on who he puts forward to be his core team. >> amen to that. the senator from oklahoma said he would step in by friday to make sure biden receives a daily intelligence briefings. we are passed close business. i don't think he's stepped in. i want to make sure with we keep up with that. have a fabulous weekend. up next. trump claims widespread fraud. that's not what his lawyers are claiming in court. lat latest maga fantasies of

wrong doing at vote centers are beyond ridiculous. >> the vans that showed up. there were supposed to be filled with food. what did they have in them? do you know? >> i never saw anything being brought out of the van. i was not allowed over in the area. the vans were not big enough to be carrying enough food for two third of the workers. >> that was really on tv. why trump should be very nervous about what awaits him as a private citizen. and the battle for g. one of the two democratic candidates in the crucial run off joins me. he uses fresh, clean ingredients to make a masterpiece. taste our delicious new flatbread pizzas today. panera.

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no matter how much he huffs and puffs, donald trump cannot force a victory for himself in this election. face the facts. you lost. this time it wasn't just the popular vote. the electoral college is telling

you it's time to pack where are bags, get the industrial cleaning people in there to clean the covid out of the white house. and go. it doesn't matter how many times you tweet. or lawsuits you file with claims of fraud and election theft. even your own campaign lawyers cannot make the case for you. in arizona, one of the lawyers told a judge they quote were not alleging fraud or anyone stealing lt election. just raising concern about a limited number of cases involving good faith errors. in pennsylvania lawyers cut ties with you and your claims that hundreds of thousands of votes there shouldn't be counted. even before the law firm withdrew the case, some employees said they were concerned that the firm was being used to under cut the integrity of the electoral process. you know, that process that you swore to defend. even the department of homeland security has called out your claim. saying the november 3 election was the most secure in american

history. today 16 federal prosecutors who were assigned to monitor the 2020 election told your attorney general barr they saw no evidence of substantial voting irregularity. joining me now harvard law professor. it's always great to see you. stipulate going in, we're one more loss today. i think donald trump might have won zero cases so far. even before conservative court. >> zero out of 13. not a jr. varsity team would be ashamed of a record like that. >> a certain point, is there a duty for the lawyers involved as did the law firm in the pennsylvania case to withdraw and saw to client we cannot continue to do this. >> yeah. they are supposed to be officers of the court. there's an ethical obligation. it's true you can defend somebody who might be guilty. but helping someone under mine the democracy and delegitimize

the transfer of power, something we have done ever since john adams handed the presidency over to thomas jefferson. is way beyond that. i think any lawyer worthy of the name would be awe shamed to be involved in a frivolous lawsuit of this kind. go ahead. >> it feels like there's a lot more lawyers who are working for trump could be about the time with. you have just facing donald trump potential will once he's a civilian again at noon january 20, the potential for legal issues regarding hush money payments to stormy daniels. the tax fraud cases involving potentially inflating value of the assets to secure loans and tax ben if i wants. defamation lawsuits. and sexually assaulting them. inauguration misuse of funds and accusations committee and others were misusing the money to

enrich trump. there's a lot waiting for him. civil related cases to criminal cases. shouldn't -- how much trouble do you think to be blunt is he is? >> you have summarized it well. there's a litany of lawsuits. civil and criminal. that are going to compiling down on him. kind of avalanche. and i really don't see any obvious way for him to get out from under them. it's clear that his pardon power is not going to do any good at all against james. or against the pardon pow of the president has no purchase at all. when it comes to state and matthew s if he spend time and money defending himself against the

avalanche of lawsuits than continuing making the futile and ridiculous claim this election his own homeland department said was the most secure in history. this election was somehow stolen. that's non-sense. no one really believes it. people are humoring him. he ought to get on with his life. there is going to be after life. whether he likes it or not. >> there's reporting he's carrying this on for a couple reasons. he's short financially. he doesn't have a will the of liquid capitol. he's fearful of prosecution. and he's thinking of maybe pardoning himself and his family members. there are options there. he can resign and have mike pence pardon him. a pardon if you can clarify. this is admission of guilt. he would be admitting he committed a crime. >> i don't think he could pardon himself. it's never tested in american

history. 410 years ago, in a famous case. the chief jurist of england edward cook reasoned that no one could be a judge in his own case. you can't pardon yourself. you can pardon your son, daughter, family. but not yourself. the other really important thing he can't do is pardon future crimes. the odds are when he gets out of the white house, the most valuable thing will have is the national secrets he's accumulated. if he can remember them. and we already know from what he told in the white house that he is quite a leaker. for his own benefit, leaked information about the israel secret agent. he's probably going to use all sorts of classified information for his own benefit. if he does it might be the

federal crime of espionage. and no pardon anybody can give even pence can reach into the future and into crimes not yet committed. pardons can't be licenses to commit future crimes. and he's very willing to under mine the national defense right now. by with holding the presidential daily brief from the incoming president. joe biden. he's willing to mess up the defense department. we know that he doesn't care really about the defense of the united states. he doesn't complain when putin puts a bounty on the heads of american soldiers who he regards as losers and suckers. what reason is to think when he leaves the white house he won't try to take advantage of the stuff he gained while there. >> yeah. particularly since he does seem to need the cash. broke trump and angry trump. might be the most dangerous.

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unable to accept his fate. donl trump is fuelling an unhinged fantasy. that he not joe biden won the election. he's urging millions of americans to join him in the dissent into fantasy land. fuelling a toxic stew of grievance and ridge. to get more money from adoring fans. a favored trump tabtic. supporters planned an event calling the million maga march. in washington d.c. trump fans were gathering today at black lives matter plaza. some were spotted tearing down antitrump signs. including get this, a picture of john lewis. trump tweeted today he may stop by the rally. but here's the thing. those rallies are not so organic. audio of the trump campaign manager issuing call to action to his supporters. telling them to stay at the

ready. because they'll need support waving the flag and yelling the president's name. media reports note the rallies are being promoted and some cases attended by members of the proud boys. right wing militia leaders and neo nazis. the trump base. how colorful. former assistant director for counter intelligence at the fwi. it's easy to mob the rag tag collection of misfits that will show up and rip down photographs of john lewis. is there a real danger? to be blunt, d.c. is a black city. a majority black city. it has a lot of minority and people of color. and now you have white nationalists converging on it. should we be concerned? >> it's a recipe for trouble. i can tell you that my contacts and law enforcement and the d.c. area recently today told me they

are very concerned. and it's not just a gut feeling. it's the intelligence they are seeing in the private and public messaging. in chat rooms and blog sites and web sites and twitter. as you mention from the various groups from q anon-to militia groups. amassing weapons. i'm pleased so far law enforcement and the intelligence community up to this point have done an incredible job behind the scenes battling the foreign threat and domestic threat. they are to be commended. the bad guys have to get it right once and law enforcement has to get it right every single time. if i had friends and family that were thinking about attending either side rally. this saturday. i say this, why exactly are you going? this is essentially attending a pregame pep rally when you know

who won the game. there's no reason to be there. exercise your free speech, please be sure that you are not getting anywhere near the opposing side. things can get very heated on saturday. >> hopefully people will stay home. and stay away. that's great advice. trump em boldened white nationalist. he's their dear leader. and express the thoughts about him. the speech at the republican national convention said -- one of the debates. when told given the opportunity to condemn white nationalism. instead of condemning told proud boys stand back and standby. when you hear his campaign manager using the phrase stay at the ready. similar language. knowing that the people that are coming include the proud boys and neo nazi groups. it feels like that's what a they are doing. to get the groups excited and riled up. >> i don't have to engage in

conjecture. what i see on the sites and how they groups and individuals respond to this. they see it as green light. they see it as messaging. as recently as today i have seen leaders of the certain organizations say we are just waiting for the signal. all trump has to do is tell us to get in the fight and we're ready to go. he can't claim anymore this is accidental. or can't think of the all the possible out comes of what he says. we have a track record of it. this is how they respond. the so called law and order president made the job of law enforcement that much more difficult. he's got 130 secret service members sick. he's making the job of the d.c. area law enforcement more difficult for saturday. and it seems that these groups don't understand that he doesn't stand frtd law and order. that he claims. >> this is the president who

sicked troops or tear gassed peaceful protesters so he could take a walk and hold a bible upside down at a church. because rather than allow the people pharo people protest. as far as the public is concerned who live in the area, besides staying away from it, is this a situation where the mayor of d.c. ought to be considering a time to stay by. people should stay home and stay at home order. what would you be advising the mayor to be doing? curfew? >> there's some good news here. the d.c. area is really, really experienced. at exercising free speech and protest. part of good protest management is designating spots and issuing permits. and making sure that the opposing groups do not run into each other. that's a critical aspect of

protest management. that presumes people will play by the rules. they don't always do that. particularly certain sides. the mayor and city officials and the federal officials are working together. that city is used to that partnership. they are working with groups on designated protest areas. i think a curfew is something that is premature until we see how the day plays out. i can tell you law enforcement is plugged in. and trying to manage what's going to happen. >> we hope for the best. and please if you are out there and listening, listen to frank. he knows what he's talking about. stay home and stay away from that. up next. for anyone still not taking this virus seriously, maybe you need to hear from a covid nurse who became a covid patient. >> how long were you in the hospital? >> five days. three days on -- >> how long until you came back to work? >> i had to isolate 21 days and

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the coronavirus situation in the united states is dire. it's getting worse. for the tenth day in a row more than 100,000 cases were reported. in the midwest hospitals are facing a catastrophic loss of beds. cases are surging in the region as the weather has turned colder approximate more people are forced inside. the region surge is a preview of the rest of the united states can expect in the coming weeks as winter approaches. the record breaking surge in cases is driven to a significant degree wi casual occasions that may seem safe.

officials and scientists warn that dinner parties, game nights. sleep overs and car pools. not a good idea. a model cited by the white house is projecting by new years the u.s. will have 320,000 deaths. around two thousand a day. i'm joined by member of the biden harris transition advisory covid-19 board. clinical professor of diseases. we love an expert. i'm thankful experts will be in back in charge. i thank you for existing and being on the task force. it we have so 10.7 million preeopl infected. i can barely get it out. we have thanksgiving coming. obviously the idea is stay home, keep it small. do you worry that thanksgiving

is going to produce another huge out break? >> well, we're in the middle of a wild fire that is spreading across the country. thanksgiving could well be like pouring gasoline on the fire. thanksgiving has all of the characteristics of a super-spreader event. in close quarters inside without masks around a dining table. eating and drinking together. not to mention the fact that people are traveling from various different parts of the country to be there. you have people from different generations. you have young adults with older adults and the elderly. that's really a recipe for a lot of transmission and people who are very much at risk for complications. >> the other thing is school. i have a friend that's a teacher. she's scared. and a lot of teachers are afraid. school and new york city schools may have to close again. because we hit the 3% positive

rate. a great writer who is in charge of the 1619 project at the "new york times" wrote the public skals they shut down because the city and state had to let people dine inside and work out at a gym. how much society values public education. particularly low income black and brown kid who will suffer when schools close down. did the country make a bad choice in prioritizing getting bars and gyms open and essentially sacrificed the kids? >> i think that we need to be deciding what we're putting a pause upon and closing on the basis of the highest risk settings. in terms of transmission. and truly essential services. on the basis of that we know that indoor dining, bars, gyms, nail salons, as well as private indoor gatherings are among the high risk settings for transition. schools are not zero risk.

they are low risk. consider schools to be essential service, the no brainer would be to keep schools open as long as possible. and you would close bars and restaurants and the like first. >> yeah. we know that causes economic catastrophe. people who own those. we understand that. here's a going forward question. you are advising the incoming administration. you have a supreme court 6-3 conservative. you have give a speech to the federalist society in which he went on and on. and was open about the disdain for mask orders. as if they are somehow a huge threat to liberty. amy coney barrett is not clear she would not rule to say that it is against religious liberty to have mask order that don't give churches an exclusion. if we wind up with a supreme court that rules that you cannot mandate masks, and you cannot

particularly mandate them in houses of worship. lots of covid has been spread and people died. how fearful are you we'll never get this under control and it will get worse? >> i'm really concerned about the politicization of masks. it's a really unfortunate thing that happened over the last several months. as far as i'm concerned this is like politicizing the use of toilet paper. it's a very basic hygienic measure. that has really nothing to do with politics. it's about protecting ourselves and our families and our community. in terms of this supreme court law. the legal aspect of this. i'm not a lawyer. i don't want to pine on what the supreme court might or might not do. i do think it is going to be difficult to enforce a mandate even if you have mandates. and we really need to be encouraging people regardless to take personal responsibility for

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the senate race between jon ossoff and david perdue is officially going to runoff between kelly loeffler and warnock. the january 5th runoff will decide which party controls the united states senate. will probably shape the ambition of joe biden's presidency, as well as his party's future. it's a choice between having a senate that actually governs and -- well, and this. >> if we keep the senate, we need to do a -- a joint committee in the senate to analyze mail-in balloting. >> on the possibility of another coronavirus package, i don't think the current situation demands multi-trillion-dollar package. >> we have 11 million people in our country who have already had covid. we should tell them to celebrate. we should tell them to throw away their masks, go to restaurants, live again, because these people are now immune. >> joining me now is jon ossoff,

the democratic candidate running to unseat senator david perdue. the mind reels. great to see you. great to have you on. >> hey, joy. >> hey. so you have challenged another sort of winner here, mr. perdue, to three debates. he didn't do so well in the debates against you last time. kind of went viral and not well for him. has he accepted your offer to debate three times? >> not to my knowledge. i guess, my message to the senator is if he doesn't want to come out and explain his message and his vision, that's fine. he just shouldn't be seeking re-election to the u.s. senate. >> let me play a little bit of the ad that's being run against you right now. >> okay. >> now, we take georgia. then, we change america. >> you heard him. chuck schumer is trying to use georgia to take the senate majority and radically change america. the schumer/pelosi/ossoff

change, washington, d.c. as the 51st state. >> then, we change america. >> change is coming to america. >> believe them. vote perdue. >> you know, maybe, it's just me as -- as a black woman, that i -- i have feelings about that. because they've already run an ad against you, where they tried to basically malign you for being jewish by trying to use very blatant jewish, you know, stereotypes against you. then, they have schumer. schumer schumer. be scared of schumer when chuck schumer's like the most moderate, nonscary person in the world. i don't know what they're afraid of him. but what do you make of that tactic? and what is your response to it? >> i think the georgia democrats have learned really not to care what these national republican groups say about us. i mean, the impact of an ad like that is nil, joy. so i don't really spend a lot of time worrying about it. that's political consultants in d.c. raising a ton of money from

mega donors, cooking these ads up in board rooms. that doesn't address daily life for people in georgia. i have been on the road for the last four days, visiting six cities. people are concerned the fact that we're in the midst of a pandemic. democrats and republicans. that we're in the midst of an economic crisis. not this partisan nonsense. it's just meaningless. >> then, why did so many people vote for david perdue? the claim is that defund police is the reason that people who even had a great distaste for donald trump still voted, in large measure, for republicans. i mean, he did tie you. did you not buy that message of anti-blackness and scare you about black lives matter, you don't think that's going to work? >> well, look. i do think that fear mongering is all they've got. but david perdue was considered a lock to cruise easily to re-election. i was telling everybody look at

the work we have done with stacey abrams, carolyn bordeaux. folks didn't believe me and they already threw the kitchen sink. spent something like $50 million hitting me with all this nonsense. they couldn't even get perdue over 50%. and it's because they're not talking about how we are going to contain this virus. they're not talking about how we're going to deliver relief. and today, by the way, joy, as you saw, joe biden officially won here in georgia. i mean, beyond doubt. so, we have a lot of momentum here, and folks want to hear about solutions and where we go from here. and i really don't worry about ads like that. >> do you think that, on the strength of the argument that republicans, if they maintain control, will not pass another substantial relief bill. will not pass a health care bill if the supreme court throws out the affordable care act. and just, actually, don't care how many people have died. like, is that enough to get back

the same level of turnout that we saw for joe biden? >> yes. first of all, we are still actively registering voters. we are running a massive turnout effort here. we're organizing. we're rallying the troops. and we are invigorated by president-elect biden's victory here. but, second of all, think of all the work that's been done in georgia for the last ten years, to get us to this point. and i give stacey abrams a lot of credit, as i always do. and the tens of thousands that have made this possible. the bottom line, they're going to try to do to joe biden just line they tried to do to joe biden. they're not going to allow him to deliver his agenda. and i need folks across the country to log on to elect jon.com so we can get this done and allow this incoming administration to govern and lead us out of this crisis.

>> jon ossoff, i want to let our viewers know that, in order to -- if you -- if you filed an absentee ballot in georgia, you have to file a separate application for each election and each runoff election in which you are requesting an absentee ballot, unless you are a voter over 65. senate candidate jon ossoff, best of luck to you. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. have a good night. >> before we go, a moment of joy from one of msnbc's most loyal fans. morgan celebrated her 9th birthday on election day and we wanted to help her celebrate. so we surprised her with a special birthday message from her friends here at msnbc. take a look at her reaction. >> happy birthday, morgan. >> hi, morgan. >> she's like a superfan. she's 9 years old. she's like the best.

thanks for watching, morgan. we appreciate you. thank you. and that is tonight's reid out. isn't she adorable? she is the cutest thing ever. you had a great birthday. we all had a great birthday for you. "all in with chris hayes" and everybody, have a fabulous weekend. all in with chris hayes. you got to watch it. you love it. it starts right now. tonight, on "all in." the president emerges to bargain with his own defeat, and surrender to the virus. >> ideally, we won't go to a lockdown. i will not go, this administration, will not be going to a lockdown. hopefully, the -- whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration will be, i guess time will tell. >> tonight, biden adviser jared bernstein and senator bernie sanders on getting america through this national emergency. then, the trump campaign keeps losing in court as the electoral map finally fills out. >> 306 t