more than 82,000 people are hospitalized because of coronavirus nationwide right now. hospitals are overwhelm and staff shortages due to covid are compounding the problem. >> this does not need to be our fate. we have the tools to defend

ourselves against this virus. all we have to do is use those tools. >> the 78th secretary of the treasury has been chosen but biden hasn't announced who it is yet. we'll take you through the short list. and six days until velshi across america heads to south dakota for a sobering look at how covid is hitting that state. "velshi" starts now. >> good morning. it is sunday, november 22nd. i'm ali velshi. there are 59 nice until joe biden's inauguration. outgoing president donald trump has not conceded. almost 200,000 americans are being diagnosed with covid every day. more than 256,000 americans now dead and we are averaging nearly 2,000 deaths a day. the number expected to increase during the upcoming stretch of cold weather holidays. while the incoming biden

administration is almost solely focused on fighting the pandemic in order to help millions of americans, the outgoing trump administration is selfishly focused on finding ways to upend the results of the election in order to stay in power. just hours after crossing that 12 million case mark, trump publicly threatened the courts and or legislatures in four states demanding they have the, quote, courage to overturn the results of this election in his favor. remember, he lost. donald trump is the loser of this election. he's a 74-year-old man who cannot accept that fact. he continues to be coddled by republicans like a tantrum throwing toddler. yesterday as part of trump's attempt to have the results of america's presidential election overturned, to have the will of the people simply ignored, two more individuals have confirmed that their name will forever be alongside their dear leader in association with trying to destroy democracy in an

attempted power grab unrivalled by anything in american history. just as michigan is set to certify joe biden as the winner of its electoral vote, the rnc chair and michigan gop chair sent a joint letter to the michigan board of canvassers demanding that they adjourn for 14 days so that a full audit can take place of the wayne county results, meaning detroit. the four-member board of state canvassers is set to meet monday to review and certify the statewide results like every single one of trump and his loyalists claims, plural, letter cites no evidence at all. it reads like a bad attempt at a mafia style because i say so than any serious legal letter. amazingly, the tactic appears to be working as "the new york times" reports one of the two republican members of the four member michigan board is actually contemplating whether

to plblock the certification at tomorrow's meeting and says he received hundreds of phone calls and text messages from people telling him to certify and not to certify adding you can't make up your mind before you get all the facts. it's very important to note right now in every instance trump and his loyalist have failed to provide any facts. instead serving up the same generic lines that always add up to nothing. here are the facts. they are plain. joe biden won michigan by more than 150,000 votes. the latest republican demand came one day after trump himself hosted in-person at the white house republican members of michigan state legislature including the senate majority leader and the speak of the michigan house reportedly for no other reason than to pressure them to overturn the election results because of wayne county.

trump said we will show massive and unprecedented fraud. a falsehood which is more remarkable for when it was dispatched more than anything else. trump sent that tweet while he was supposed participating in the g-20 virtual summit during the saudi king's introductory remarks. because the summit is being live streamed, it looks like "the brady brunch" crossed with a zoom meeting. you can see the outgoing president looking down apparently tweeting. and then trump up and left. he reportedly did so during uk boris johnson's remarks and went to play golf. it's the third straight weekend he golfed in virginia. he has played golf as many times as he's had public events on his schedule since the election. he did speak but his remarks

were not live streamed likely saving the united states from further embarrassment. trump continued to claim election victory telling the gathered world leaders "i look forward to working with you again for a long time." donald trump will not be working for them for a long time because donald trump lost the election and the avenues for his continued baseless challenges are closing faster than rudy giuliani's spray on hair dye drips down his face. giuliani was handed a loss in pennsylvania. one that can't be challenged because of how ridiculous it was in the first place. the judge absolutely eviscerated the trump campaign writing what they really want to do is disenfranchise almost 7 million voters and that they seek to discredit scores of other votes but only for one race. that is not how the constitution

works. given the weight of that request, the judge said he would expect compelling legal arguments and factual proof of construction but giuliani presented strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations unsupported by evidence. adding in the united states of american this cannot justify it. trump sent the circus to pennsylvania and was called out for it big time. in georgia, another state trump lost, his campaign is requesting a second recount after the first one didn't turn trump's fantasy into a reality. now, this recount, which is within trump's legal rights, and will be done by michigachine in of by hand won't address any trump's actual baseless claims. it won't change the results of the election either which the state certified on friday. what it will do is cost georgia taxpayers hundreds of thousands

of dollars and waste a lot of time and energy during a pandemic. and it may not matter at all any way as "the washington post" reports trump said he'll move on and running again in 2024. a lot to unpack here. joining me now is the person upon whom all of the light is shane i shining michigan secretary of state. she wrote the book on the role that secretaries of state in each state should play in american elections. so she knows of what she speaks which is why we are pleased to have you on the show again to tell us what is happening in michigan and what is likely to happen? >> i think -- good to see you. thanks for having me here today. i think it's important to look at facts and rules and laws and data and what some want people to believe is a perception of reality but has no basis in the

truth. on the one side it's very clear that the voters of michigan have spoken. they made a choice. there's no legal or factual basis to question that choice and there are several protocols in place to protect that choice through the certification that we have every reason to expect will happen tomorrow. and then on the other hand it's been a very concerted effort not just in michigan but across the country, not just after the election but before, to misinform citizens not just about their rights to vote but now about whether their votes will count in the official record of the certification in michigan. the bottom line is despite a significant amount of scrutiny on our elections here in michigan, we've only revealed the truth which is there are no irregularities and no widespread fraud and that everyone in a position of authority has every reason to stand behind the will of the voters in our state. >> so what is this request that has come from the michigan gop and the chair of the national

gop to delay the certification for two weeks. what's the thinking behind that? >> well, you would have to ask those that made the request. i can say this. the law is very clear and the role of the state canvassers under the law is very clear. it's to certify the election. there's no legal authority under state law to do anything other than confirm the election results. and in addition to that, i've said repeatedly throughout my tenure as secretary of state the importance of auditing the elections after the fact is something we've been planning to do for months. we've been preparing for a statewide risk audit and at the local level including wayne county and those audits cannot begin until the state certified the election results. we've been clear about that what the law says and we hope that the state board of canvassers does its job on monday, plays its legal duty so that we can also move forward in beginning that audit process which is important to both confirm the

integrity and security of our elections but also help us identify ways to improve for the future. >> so given that you and i talk a few times a week now, give me some sense of what the likely outcome is on monday and what the possible outside outcomes are because every time something goes wrong in michigan, the rest of us anxiety level spikes and then we see your tweets saying everything is unfolding the way it should. it will be all right. give us your range of possibilities on monday. >> i try to stay focus on history and what history has taught us to this point which is along the way though we've had perhaps some bumps, the law has stood. the will of the people has been protected. every count certified the election results. i fully expect that the state board of canvassers will do the same thing tomorrow and play their legal role. that said, there are lots of protocols in place to address

any ty responsibility. but the good thing is, the positive thing is to note the people again have spoken. that's very clear. there's a lot of protections in the law to ensure that that will of the voters in michigan carries the day. i have every confidence that it will. and then again i think it's important for people to note there have been calls for audits of our elections. we've planned those audits. we're ready to go once the certification happens and, again, importantly remember, under state law we can't begin the auditing process or anything else in that regard until the certification has happened. >> so this is a chicken and egg situation. they would like auditing. you have not resisted the idea that you will conduct an audit, but they have to certify the election for you to audit and they say let's not certify the election until you audit it? >> it's a legal situation. the law is clear on all the fronts. i'm restraigating what the law . the bureau of elections that conducts the audits along with our clerks can't have access to

documentations needed to conduct an audit until elections are certified under state law. that's fairly clear. i'm just -- my job is letting everyone know what the law says, what the rules are, and also affirming my faith and my expectation as we've seen all along the way every step of this process that not only are elections secure but that people can trust that the results are an accurate reflection of the will of the people and that willie geist stawil will will stand and carry the day. >> whatever happens in michigan tomorrow with the certification and then the electoral college in december and then inauguration in january, what has happened is this clown car of legal maneuvers around the country are eroding people's faith in the safety and security of the election. >> yes. absolutely. i'm sure if not now but before long we'll begin turning to that wholeheartedly which is this moment is a moment.

we'll get through it. when we get through it on the other side, we are going to have to address the lasting damage that these baseless meritless attacks have had on our democracy and on citizens faith in our democracy. we work hard every day to ensure that no matter how someone votes or who they vote for, they can have faith in our process. working to rebuild that faith and bring people together to secure the integrity and access of our elections moving forward is going to be the work for all of us ahead to dive into. >> i have to tell you a lot of people not interested in reading a book about secretaries of state might newly be interested in reading this book that you have written. you are not just michigan secretary of state, you are author of a book called "secretaries of state guardians of the democratic process." thank you for writing this. this gets on everyone's reading list now. thanks for being with us. we appreciate your time this morning. >> always a pleasure. thank you.

we're days away from what will be one of the most unique thanksgivings in american history and it's important to note not only is the outgoing president golfing while world leaders address covid-19 and future fate of humanity but he's doing so while nearly 2,000 americans die each day because of this pandemic and while tens of thousands more wait in lines. that's the picture on the right. wait in lines at food banks across the country economically devastated by the pandemic and the ongoing inaction by trump who is clearly more focused on his tenext tee shot and his loyalist. i want to bring in our next guest. i know you thought about some of these things and you gamed out how this could happen. is what's happening right now particularly with these, as i called them, this clown car of lawyers running around the country, is this what you

thought would happen? did you think two weeks after the election we would still be talking about this about whether we won and who has won? >> yes. the short answer is yes. >> i thought you were going to say that. >> every scenario we saw, we worked on it for 14 months, even before we got to the midway point, we were getting all of this information about lawyers and legal tactics and the hundreds of lawsuits that were being filed ahead of the election. as soon as we got into the main swing after the conventions, you know, just lawsuits popped up left and right and we figured this was going to be part of the landscape. now, what we didn't figure necessarily was that the cases were going to be so quickly dismissed and so quite frankly

we expected there would be a better effort at creating a haze of doubt or arguments that seemed on their face to be compelling even if there was no real substance beneath them but just the, kind of, hair dye running down the face as metaphor for all of it, the sloppiness of the spectacle, we didn't anticipate that. >> which is interesting because if you want a tv lawyer, giuliani is interesting. if you actually think you're going to fight a case on the constitutionality of ballots being cast, i'm not sure he's the guy you would have sent to court in philadelphia. a pop quiz for you. the cities in which biden had great victories in states that were flipped for joe biden, detroit, milwaukee, philadelphia, atlanta, pop quiz, what do they all have in common? >> it's not baseball teams, it's not score, it's going to be the black populations there.

one of the things that is notable is that they're not contesting the election results in rome, georgia, or in the southern part of georgia or in those places. they're not contesting the vote returns in those middle stretches and more rural stretches of pennsylvania or wisconsin or michigan for that matter. and so it's been very clear. this has been the point from the outset and when we were looking at the dynamics here, we saw this again and again but it was only the thinnest fig leaf to cover a voter compression tactic directed at african-american voters primarily. >> you were smarter than i was about this. you've been studying this and writing about it for a long time. i definitely -- as you said, the trump campaign is 0 and 26 right now in court. it's not actually working. i would have thought they would

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stretched around the block with 60 socially distanced patients waiting to be tested. covid testing has been america's achilles' heel. the first test didn't work sent out from cdc. many experts say we need to test between 4 and 15 million people a day to suppress this virus according to the covid tracking project the united states is testing around 1.6 million a day on average. i went for a test at temple university in philadelphia yesterday. a shout-out to the black doctors covid 19 consortium. dr. stanford on our show a couple hours before tested me she herself. there was even a deejay emceeing

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have witnessed more death and experienced more anguish than most of us could ever fathom. there's a toll that comes with that. one that can't bevaccine. i'm talking about their mental health. nurses catch the brunt of it as they work so close with patients. a nurse in michigan explained how it has affected her psyche. it takes such a toll on you. it makes me question so many things. it almost makes me feel like i'm not doing anything, not helping anyone, when people just keep coming in and getting sick. clearly what seems to be a never ending cycle this moment. that nurse lauren sharp joins me now. she graduated from nursing school last year. lauren, thank you for being with us today. this is a tough one. nurses are inheritcaring and emc and trained to see trauma and

loss on a daily basis. that would take a toll on a normal human. how are you and your colleagues being affected by what's going on right now? >> we're being affected tremendously. you know, this pandemic has affected many people but especially mental health wise like you said. you just add the pandemic on top of what we've already seen and, you know, we struggle day-to-day. we go to work anxious, nervous, overwhelmed before we even start the shift. we kind of put that behind us and then we deal with it when we get home. dealing with it when we get home is hard because you have to wake up and go back to work the next day. >> and front line health care workers generally are suffering these days. we hear high rates of depression and anxiety. insomnia is another one. 70% of front line workers are reporting some kind of psychological distress and they

say that workers like you who are working with people who are infected are 1.4 times more likely to feel fear or suffer anxiety and depression. how does your profession deal with this? generally speaking you're thought of just being on the front lines and toughing it out. >> you're kind of forced to be in that mindset because every day you go to work and you want to help someone. the patient comes first. we're around patient centered care. dealing with it at home is one thing. everyone deals with mental health in their own way. i think at work we try to have an inclusive environment, talk about things when we can. we have special rooms at the hospitals to go and debrief if we're feeling overwhelmed or just to talk about what's dpg on. i think that's helped some people along the way. >> one of the things that's

tough is that your feelings aside, you are the person in many cases who is dealing with an infected patient who doesn't have their normal support system around. so being in the hospital is unnerving to most patients. in coronavirus, it's a lot worse because you can't have your normal support around you so you play that role too. >> correct. and i love playing that role. i love being there for patients during a very vulnerable time in their life because i feel like i can provide that comfort, sympathy, empathy. just one case comes particular to my head when i've had patients tell me during the covid pandemic that i'm trying to kill them and that i'm lying to them and i just keep telling them you're safe. i'm here to take care of you. i want you to get better and they just don't believe me and that really hits the core sometimes. >> what do you do to cope? >> i like to workout, exercise.

i like to color. i like to watch movies and go to walks especially right now since we're trying to stay out of large gatherings. i've been trying to be outside as much as i can. and then i like to talk about it with family members and they're very open to it and supportive. >> well, i'm glad you talked about it with us this morning. lauren, we thank you on behalf of all frontline workers, all medical workers, all nurses helping us stay alive and stay healthy. we appreciate what you do. lauren sharp is a nurse on the frontline in michigan. she works on an adulteress pe adult respiratory floor. it is a respiratory disease and lauren helps those patients. thank you, lauren. president-elect joe biden said he chosen his first cabinet

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president-elect joe biden says he chose his first cabinet appointment, treasury secretary. we'll announce his pick possibly this week. it's time to play a guessing game. it's been held by white men for all of america's history. he says his choice will be popular among all democrats. there is lael brainard. she would be the first woman to head the department. former fed chair janet yellen said to be on the list. she would be the first woman but

the first person to hold the talk of economic positions in the united states. roger ferguson who left the top job at the investment giant tiaa last week is in the running. before that he was vice chair and would be the first black person in history to lead the treasury. atlanta federal reserve president rafael bostic and there is elizabeth warren, the dark horse, with control of the senate hanging in the balance, unlikely biden would replace the massachusetts senator. i'm joined by former chair of fdic. good morning, sheila. thank you for being with us this morning. >> good morning.

thanks. nice to see you as well. thanks for having me. >> there are important positions in the cabinet. it could be that the first job picked could have been the attorney general or the defense secretary or the secretary of state. what does it tell you that treasury is the first pick being made? >> well, it shows me that the economy is front and center and treasury has a key role in coordinating with the fed on support policies through the facilities and lead negotiator with congress on the pandemic relief. it's an important position and important that whoever gets it can hit the ground running so i think it's a good sign that he's prioritizing the secretary of the treasury. >> i don't know if your short list -- you probably know more about these things than we do -- matches what ours is but what do you make of this particular short list? >> i agree with you about senator warren.

i would love it if mr. biden would pick her as secretary of treasury but the massachusetts seat is too important. the senate is in play. they can't give that up. of the list, i think janet yellen is a front runner with the most capability of bridging the gap. she's got a proven track record. most recently as chair of the federal reserve where she had a very successful tenure. she has international prominence which is good for secretary of the treasury. i would put her as the strongest candidate and leading candidate. but lael brainard would be great. courageous on some of the stances she's taken against the mainstream of the fed on deregulation they've been doing. she would be very strong as well. i would love it with all due respect to roger ferguson, i would love to see this become the first woman secretary of treasury as a former treasury official myself.

fingers crossed for a woman. i would have to give the odds to janet yellen at this point. >> let me ask you about the role of the treasury secretary other than signing money. there are important things that the treasury secretary has to do in normal times but in this particular time where we've not had an extension of the relief bill and it's stuck in the republican controlled senate, the role we are seeing treasury secretary mnuchin play is he's in negotiations with nancy pelosi to come up with a deal. whether you like him or not, that is now a key role of the next treasury secretary. they're going to be in negotiations with congress, both the house and with the republican controlled senate. that's a different skill set than is normally required for the treasury secretary. >> well, that's true but one that i think potential future secretary yellen could fulfill. she's used to navigating with congress given the congressional scrutiny that the fed gets for any fed chair.

you ha she will not just be by herself. she'll have a team of appointees that mr. biden will put forward. i think that will bode well for her. i think she would be up to the job. but you're right. it's a very key part right now. pandemic relief is essential. we have to get another relief bill and it breaks my heart that congress has not been able to get their act together to get cash assistance out to households in particular. i think that's really essential for them and for our economy and the current leadership and future leadership, i hope they continue to prioritize that. >> well, perhaps next weekend you and i will have something else to talk about once we have that appointment. we'll told it will be around thanksgiving.

it's a crucial position to fill. sheila, good to see you. as if being ripped away from your family wasn't torture enough, the trump administration denied mental health services to migrant families that it separated at the border. you take people away from their families, put them in cages and then you don't provide them with the support they need. we're heading into thanksgiving now with millions of americans unemployed and too many families on the brink of homelessness and not a relief deal in sight. we were talking about that. >> what i ask of our republican colleagues in the senate is to act as if you were the one that was going hungry. act as if it is you getting evicted from your house. act with that urgency.

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another day, another deep stain on the immigration record of president trump. sources telling nbc news this week that the trump administration blocked the department of justice for making a deal that would have paid for mental health services for thousands of migrant families separated at the border. the office of white house council rejected the deal after consulting with steven miller of all people. just when you thought the mental toll on immigrants and their children was too much to bear, a report by the associated press reports that according to lawyers, 65 immigrant children at a south texas station were being held in conditions that exposed them to the spread of covid with one team describing he was only allowed to shower for five minutes a day and to do so he had to wait in a cramped line with no room for social

distancing and only given one facemask that he has had to wear every day. the trump administration has engaged in behavior and enacted policies with the purpose of hurting migrants making their way across the border. meaning these reports are a long string in mergeless attacks on civilians who are simply seeking a better, safer life for themselves and their children. in short, the cruelty is the point. nbc jacob so has done extensive reporting on this. the author of "separated inside an american tragedy." jac jacob, good to see you my friend. what gets missed, not by you at all, but children detained, children walking across land across a border into another country would be suffering from anguish and mental health issues non-the less then you separate them from their parents. courts hardly do that unless a

parent is abusive in america and then you cage them and then you don't provide them with support for the mental health issues you contributed to them having. >> i would say it's unbelievable but it's completely believable. people that make the journey, one of the most dangerous journeys don't do it because as the president of the united states once said, it's a walk in central park, they do it because they are desperate. the latest reporting we've done, steven miller and the white house counsel office at the 11th hour after months a of negotiated settlement agreement to provide mental health services for children not only traumatized but tortured in the words for positions of human rights subject to government sanctioned child abuse according to the american academy of

pediatrics that the white house at steven miller's direction would kill a settlement that will support it at the highest levels of the trump administration's own department of justice and what that did was not only delay by months the implantation of the mental health services that compounds the trama the tortured children face on a daily basis but cost the government millions of more dollars because steven miller didn't want to say okay, let's take care of the children now that it's known to everyone how badly we damage them or their parents for a lifetime. >> yeah, and to the extent that you made, there are people who believe the actions of these people are illegal, if you cross the border and ask for asylum, there is nothing illegal about that. that is protected by international convention. if your asylum claim is not deemed to be valid, which the majority are not deemed to be valid, then people are given a

deportation order, at which point their presence in america becomes illegal. the concept we demonize, people walking across a desert often resulting in death before they get to america because they would try to make $100 a day, as opposed to $10 a day they made where they came from, you said it before and i said it here, the cruelty does seem to be the point. >> and whether or not it is illegal, ali, that's a great point, are you going to support or not support the government of the united states of america torturing human beings, whether or not they crossed illegally across ports of entry or illegal and it's important to point out many people separated by the trump administration crossed legally. that's why with the incoming administration, there are so many issues they have to reckon with. you mentioned some of them in the introduction. the cases of covid in texas echoes what we've seen in

california, georgia, arizona, louisiana. what will they do about parents and children still separated and 28 kids today inside i.c.e. family detention centers with deportation orders. you have senator booker calling for the halting of those deportations. the incoming administration has a lot on their plate and so far, granted we're in the middle of the transition and the president is not supporting it, there are a lot more questions than answers how they will deal with some of this stuff. >> yeah, while a lot of reporters think the next few years might be different than the last few, for you they won't be. no administration in vent history has actually gotten this right on the southern border. democrats were in angels about this, either. they didn't hold a candle to the cruelty of the trump administration and didn't get this right under barack obama and joe biden. the pressure on them to get that right now is greater and the pressure on us to hold them to

account for handling immigration to this country and refugees properly has to be priority number one. i know you'll make it priority number one and we'll make sure you have lots of space on tv to do it. thank you for the work you continue to do on this. >> thanks, my friend. >> jacob, author of "separated inside an american tragedy" a book by the way is newly relevant now that we have a new government and get to try to do this again the right way. when we come back, more voices on the ground fighting this pandemic. i'll speak with the mayor of wisconsin. an urging plea from the front lines. velshi returns after the break. lines. velshi returns after the break a! i discovered a new land! with magical creatures! was it under the porch? yup! ugh. i'll never see everything she sees. that's why we use new tide hygienic clean. it gets between fibers to remove visible and invisible dirt. hey dad! i discovered an aquatic kingdom!

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good morning, it is sunday november 22nd. i'm ali velshi. we're four days away from thanksgiving when family and friends usually gather to give blessing but this year not much of a celebration feel as to the kick off of the holiday season. the coronavirus numbers surpassing 12 million cases in the u.s. the "wall street journal" noting the number of new cases topped 100,000 every day since november 3rd acrocording to johns hopkin. today the total deaths 256,893

souls. while this reeks havoc on the u.s. population, donald j. trump who was voted out of office and yet to concede is trying to find a way to overturn the will of the american voter but at least, he may be running out of options. a federal judge in pennsylvania dismissed another of his doomed frivolous lawsuits saying it contained no merit. trump may finally be coming to term with the reality he lost the election weighing future options which include having private conversations about life behind the white house. we'll have conversations about trump trying to steal the election from the american people. but the centers for disease control issued a stark warning advising americans not to travel for thanksgiving. dr. henry walk, the incident manager of the cdc says the