good day, everyone. with just 45 days until joe biden is sworn in as president of the united states, the current president, president trump, is spending his final days in the white house ramping up his campaign against reality. at a georgia rally last night the president airing his grievances and amplifying baseless claims of voter fraud, and the state attorney of georgia fact checking those claims. >> we have over 250 cases right now. we reached out and asked for additional manpower resources so we can issue up these investigations quickly. right now we don't see anything that would overturn the will of the people here in georgia. >> on capitol hill pressure is building for congress to pass another round of coronavirus

relief. last hour i spoke with katherine clark who says they have no choice but to act now. >> this package is about getting a bridge to a new administration. that is going to put the focus back on science and creating an even more inclusive economy. but we simply cannot go home for the holidays without making sure that we are getting some relief. >> this comes as the coronavirus pandemic is worsening by the day. even with vaccine approval coming as soon as this week. health officials are urging americans not to let down their guard. >> i want to be very frank. the vaccine is critical but it's not going to save us from the current surge. only we can save us. and we know precisely what to do. so if you have loved ones that you want to protect, you have to follow these guidelines now.

>> we want to check in with correspondents and analysts. how are they encouraging georgians to vote in the run off if they're still pushing the claims that the system is rigged. >> that is the million dollar question. i have been on the ground in the last couple weeks, reporting on those runoffs in georgia. anecdotally we have been hearing from some republican voters on the ground there in georgia who say look, i don't know, this is a whole thing. i'm hearing it's rigged. the president tells me that the elections here can't be trusted. why should i go out and participate in this process? why should i participate in a rigged election. that is creating real questions about how they're going to make this argument. so far what we seem to be hearing from people in trump's orbit is a argument that they

should still vote anyway to make it harder for democrats to "steal the election. kaylee m kayleeigh mcenany was speaking out for trump. >> guess what, let's overwhelm the system with trump votes. show up, every single trump voter in the trump base. every conservative in georgia, show up and cast your vote, we have to over whelm the system with in-person voting. anyone telling you not to vote is not having the right motives here. >> interestingly even though we saw president trump while he was campaigning in georgia at that rally last night still claiming he could be the president, that

he won this election, there was something else she said in that interview that was interesting. she made an argument that people should vote to send senators david purdue and kelly lef -- loeffler back to the senate. >> you know, i appreciate the clarity you try to bring to these mixed messages, thank you very much. we're getting a new look at president-elect joe biden's cabinet so far. secretary of state, treasury secretary, and as we await news on the next top two elections a ta that biden will be making. what else is on his mind? >> they're pushing forward, of

course, on staffing. putting together that cabinet, and on the business of a transition. learning what the processes are in place so far. but also the biden transition having to chart their own bath on how to get that vaccine out of these bottles and into people's arms as people said earlier this week. trying to figure out the logistics of that and the financing and also pushing forward on the messaginmessagin. we know that means how did you get americans struggling with unemployment, because their businesses might be going through another round of shut down. that is something that biden said he supports but he views it as a down payment. if you listen to senator park warner, it is clear that democrats on the hill are also

viewing it as a down payment. he says okay, this is what the next round of spending will look like. listen to mark warner for a second. >> i think $908 billion for a targeted relief plan, a bridge to a biden administration, i think this is the direction that congress needs to move in. those that want the direct stimulus checks, that is something they grapple with. the unemployed workers, people that will be kicked out of their apartments, the small businesses, the restaurants that are struggling through as the weather gets colder. now alex, top democrats on the hill are leading these negotiations right now and they're being done with biden and his preferences in mind. when he was asked what he wants

to see we're also seeing a kind of way of prague matter -- as biden continues to put his team together, it is biden's health department in coming days. we have seen them come out on monday and tuesday. we'll see the doctor reprizing that role. he has been in biden's orbit now for many months, he is also now leading his covid task force. making sure that the perp that

fills the role is a person of color. we know that the virus has had disparities regarding race. a big push there from key democratic groups as they fry to put a person in that role as well. >> thank you very much. let's turn now to georgia where we're less than a month away from two critical senate runoffs. later today voters have a chance to see three of the four candidates in televised debates. it comes as the deadline to register to vote rapidly aroaching. shaq is joining us from atlanta. shaq i said three of the four candidates will be participating in the televised debates or commentaries, which one is not? >> senator david purdue. he was the only candidate not to accept the invitation to i did bait jon ossoff. you will likely see a discussion between the moderator and john

ossoff. that leaves a chance for debate. that will be followed by senator kelly loeffler. and as you mentioned all of this comes with key deadlines coming up here in the state of georgia. tomorrow is the voter registration deadline and a week later will be the start of early inperson voting here in the state. i'll tell you about the state farm arena. just like we saw ahead of election day. so that point you're hearing from republican officials in the state of georgia. now saying the misinformation is starting to have a negative impact. listen to what the lieutenant

governor said this morning. >> i'm worried that the fanning of the flames puts this into a tough position. the mountains of misinformation are not helping the process, only hurting it. >> you mentioned this already, but these two elections have national implications. they will have control over the senate chamber, but if democrats win that means that kamala lairs be the tie breaking vote in the senate. national implications. that explains hundreds of millions of dollars already being sent and that explains the big surrogates you see coming through. >> its also explains why we have you parked there my friend. joining me is beth fuy.

i'm going to start with you, jonathan, we have the president denying results more than a month after the election. a top georgia election official, a republican calling out the president today on today's "meet the press." >> the president's statements are false. there is misinformation. they're stoking anger and fear among supporters, and i voted for him. the situation is getting much worse. >> is there a way that you can logically interpret the president's on-going denial of the election results of reality? >> well, when it comes to president trump as president and private citizen, i think on top

of the incredible fundraising effort being put behind this, and the hundreds of millions that he is raising as a result of denies the election results in the last month, this is, and when you read the fine print how most of it will go to -- not to the georgia senate campaigns and not to anything else. he has legal fees. the new york times reported in the next four years about $400 million in debt is going to come due. from sources that but don't know about because the president of the united states refuses to release his tax returns. all he has to do is say release the returns and it could happen. so that's why i think we see this sort of -- on the one hand he is denies reality, but on the

other hand as i think it was joshua that reported that his press suck sar is out there talking about the potential of vice president being a tie vote. >> the president made tens of millions of dollars peddling a myth of voter fraud spp this an answer why he keeps going with the narrative? to keep money rolling in for the election legal battle? or for his own personal use in some way? we know that certain packs would allow him to do that. >> i agree with jonathan. there may be strategery going on here.

he is a no, sir sis who only cares about himself. his brand is "i'm a winner, i do everything great. i made more money, i'm more successful than anyone on the planet. this is a very bad way to support that motion into his only option is to suggest that the vote was rigged, it was all illegal. and he considered himself the president of his base. he doesn't think of himself as the president of the base. right now they don't want to believe that joe biden is going to be the next or more. he is going to convince name he is president or not. >> the way that he views and describes himself. how many people do you think still believe that.

do you even get a sense of people in their base. do even those in his base believe that about him? that he is the most successful? the most everything? >> that is how he came to political power and that is the way he will try to ride it out. he got $13 million more votes this time. he has a alarm number of supporters and a substantial chunk of them want to believe what he is telling them. they are basically ignoring covid. his country men, his citizens, and we are hearing him say do nothing to stem that. why does he want the job to badly that he is fighting so hard for when he is not executing what he needs to do when he has to help get this virus under control. >> with regard to the new york times article that we saw by

peter baker, that the president was depressioned, but he is not really doing the day to day work of the presidency. how concerning and how dangerous, even, is that? >> it is incredibly dangerous. the president of the united states they are giving up the job they were doing before election day. he spends his time still saying in office. it is incredibly dangerous that we have a president of the united states that is just denying it publicly. beth hit the nail on her head with her assessment of why the president is doing that. what message does the president send. that he has not had

president-elect biden to the white house in the same way that then president obama had, you know, president-elect donald trump sit in the oval office with him. that has not happened. the signal that that seconds to the world about a peaceful transfer of power, that was a mayor major mark of democracy. two sides going after each other, and then election day happens and the two sides meat and there meet and there is a peaceful transfer of power. we have not had that. >> i'm betting that vegas odds makers are betting against that ever happening, in fact there you have that. ask i can you as we tee up your show next sunday? we're so excited about it, congra congrats, jonathan. >> thanks, it will be 10:00 to

noon on sunday. everybody thinks about all of the sunday shows in the nbc family, and the "a.m. joy" team has always to my mind been doing a sunday show. we're going to lean in and talk about the news. our audience knows what the news is. political junkies, but they want context. they want to know why is this story important. where does it fit into the largest story? how can i better be able to talk about it either with my friends or argue with my relatives. so that is what i'm looking forward to do. also i'm looking for people on both sides of the aisle to come on the show. we have a lot of issues and a lot of problems that require solutio

solutions. >> a big thank you to you, i always love having you on the show. we're going to be neighbors. all of you can watch tiffany claus and jonathan capehart, and they're both here on msn brbc. a lock down for california, why it is happening so suddenly. why it is happening so suddenly. i want... ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. subut when we realized she wasn hebattling sensitive skin, we switched to tide plus downy free. it's gentle on her skin, and out cleans our old bargain detergent. tide pods plus downy free. safe for sensitive skin with eczema and psoriasis.

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though just in, new video of the first batch of coronavirus vaccines. britain is going to roll it out to nursing home staffs, residents, nurses and health care workers.

the u.s. hadded another one million new cases in less than a week. now more than 14.6 million cases across the u.s. dr. debra burkes warning about the rapid spread of the virus. >> this is where we find ourselves and we have to listen to what we know works. masks, physical distancindistan. you cannot gather without masks in any indoor or close outdoor situation. >> a field hospital in massachusetts, as they prepare for a wave new patients, they fear it could be over run by the end of the year.

florida added more than 10,000 new cases. we go to our reporters with the very latest on the pandemic for you. gary is in new york, we're going to start with scott in california. how are people reacting to it? >> you know, alex, i think it is fair to say there is frustration. we reported from here over the summer. they adapted quickly closing off these blocks to outdoor dining. this is a tent put up by the owner of the restaurant. put out this tent for outdoor dining very quickly and it respec represents about a $5,000

investment. now he is told he has to take it down because they're going to reopen the street for traffic because dining is takeout only and the economic pain for him goes much worse. >> the main thing for us is we have to let go of two thirds of our staff and that makes me extremely sad. it's not the first time and no it is repeating. we will top our dining, outdoor dining operation tomorrow. >> so there is a little bit of a last hoorah feel around here. a farmers market is going on. these kind of things will not be allowed after 10:00 tonight when the expanded stay at home order goes into effect for the bay area and the rest of the state

at midnight into no in-person sit down dining. very limited retail. hotels can only open to essential travelers. the issue is hospital capacity, the intensive care unit beds falling down to dangerously low capacity and that is what they need to get us to. >> the last production for the files that will hold the vaccine in upstate new york. corning class is making viles part of operation warp speed. gary has more on this. talk about this, it is the same company that is behind the glass that many people have on your iphone and now viles on mass. >> yes, this is the class vile

creat glass vile here. ever since operation warp speed, said it would be one of two companies giving them permission to create the viles for the american public. they will be coming out of this facility and facilities like it. they selected the company because of the special property that's are in the viles. first there is a little friction exterior coating that increasing production lines which means it is a lot faster for the vile that's can go on the production line. get your periodic table of elements out. it doesn't break and it doesn't damage nearly as easily when it is being shipped. also a reduction of glass particle generation. what does that mean? that the vaccine and the glass doesn't interact at all. no vglass shards in your vaccin.

the ability to withstand freezing conditions. i spoke to the corning museum of glass, and he spoke about why the work is so important. >> increasing the speed of pharmaceutical class is one of the things that could not be solved until this invention. here we are at the brink of the distribution of this vaccine. the world is dependent on this moment, and to be standing here in corning, new york where the idea came to life and is being realized, and the glass is being manufactured, this is a remarkable moment for all of us leving here. >> this was a long history, a very long history of dealing with national emergencies and national crisis. in 1950 they were part of the

polio vaccine trials. >> gary, that was super interesting. thank you for bringing it to us. warning signs, why the recent foreign policy actions raise alarms and a fear of a destructive finale to his presidency. e finale to his presidency your clothes can repel pet hair. look how the shirt on the left attracts pet hair like a magnet! pet hair is no match for bounce. with bounce, you can love your pets, and lint roll less.

developing right now, fears of trump's final destructive days in office. some say that the president is trying to tie up president-elect joe biden's hands for months and years to come. joining us now is steve cohen. thank you for joining us. congressman some of the old foreign policy move that's this new analysis piece points to includes sanctions on iran, banning u.s. investments in chinese companies, also his

plans to withdrawal 2500 troops from afghanistan and iraq just a few days before bide n's ina inaugurati inauguration. is this an attempt to tie president-elect biden's hands. >> i think he wants to tie his hands. herupt the opportunity to have a foreign policy consistent with person values. i think what is more consistent is what has done on with jared kushner here, rushing off to saudi arabia and trying to put together a change in the situation with iraq. we had a blockade on qatar. and the sensible reason is to have a fly over saudi arabia for air rights instead of iran.

it was qatar that came to jared kushner's rescue when he was going around. they loaned him half a billion dollars on what was a bad investment. i suspect this is his last down payment on that loan. money of the things they are doing has had financial interests involved. there is nothing that trump does that you can't trace back to the money. now they're taking care of qatar and they will take care of kushner. >> you are alarmed about president trump getting security briefings after he leaves office. >> he is careless, not concerned with the parameters of secure information.

i think president bide listn wit have a difficult decision. i think he will not share alleg trump has, the liabilities that he has personally and the danger he has. i can't imagine joe biden doing what's best for the american people giving trump briefings. sometimes my cat goes out and brings me a chipmunk to my door. he thinks it is a gift. he will give our information right to putin. >> i have a cat, but thankfully it does not bring me chipmunks. let me read part of your op-ed. how can we put brakes on his

family's pardons. >> there is a common law theory that you cannot be the judge of yourself. so if he -- we can pass a law and there is one forecasted thart of the democracy act that says you can't give yourself a self pardon. i have jr 8 to limit the president from not pardoning himself or herself, their families, he worked in the campaign -- and there is -- >> congressman, i want to read part of what you wrote here and that will help explain what you're doing. it was supposed to be unjustice outcomes. trump turned the pardon power on it's head. rather than a tool, he is using it to circumvent justice.

is that a widely held opinion on capitol hill? >> i think it is among democrats and republicans of reason. i think they know that trump is a nars sis. it is all about himself. everything is about himself and that he will use these pardons to further protect himself by giving pardons to people on him. he does not just think it was an injustice, flynn has information on him. he is protecting himself. with his family, that is all about himself. and he has done it all different. mast of his pardons, he did a big righter, he has given bar dons because of kim kardashian which is why he gave a former

constituent of mine a pardon. there are thousand and thousands and thousands of people in prison for victim leles lesless. it is a system of merit and they should have done more. he is doing this on the basis of merit. and he -- carter saw a change in the country and after the vietnam war he pardons all of the people that were allowed to come back home. something for the group good. eventually it was pardons for anyone convicted for marijuana could come to please. finally decriminalize the a the federal law, marijuana, a long

standing misguided policy. >> indeed that is under way. steve cohen, certainly a celebrity on my shows and good job putting in cats and chipmunks in this interview, only you, my friend. >> thank you. if you think all of the trump royal iloyalists ta the pt installed across the government, one of the most controversial names will be around for quite a while. l names will be around for quite a while. ♪ ♪ ♪ you're all, you're all i need ♪ ♪ you're all, you're all i need ♪

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president trump may be done on january 20th, but other people in his cabinet will not be. donald j. sherman is joining me now. i'm so glad you're here. i have a lot to get through. let's get right into this and go quickly through. starting with the trump megadonor lewis dejoy. he does not have a fixed term, he cannot be removed, why is he appointed by one president but not by another. >> well, what the postmaster general is typically a nonpartisan position. that is what we have seen from this president a lot.

me corrupted agencies and traditions that are nonpartisan. they are appointed by a board of governors, president trump has installed six of the nine that a president gets to pick there. seen as we have seen in the last several months, he could have a significant impact on und undermining mail delivery. because he serving no fixed term, he can have an impact on voting by mail for the next several months, for the next year, for the next two years as long as he is in that office. >> okay, let's go on to the head of the office special council. he was girled to a five-year term. he is certainly around for the first couple years of biden's presidency.

they have 22 open inspections. first of all what headway has been made in these investigations and is it important that they continue? >> it is critically important that they continue. they typically close investigations when folks leave government, but we have been pressing the office of personsp council to continue the investigations. they need to know if the president's daughter and advisor rye lated t violated the law. including those that may pursue jobs in the future. it is point for congress and the public to know if they're corrupt. >> you said trump is working to install career service members. >> i think it spells trouble for

the government, right? we have individuals that go into government for right reason. they do so without a party affiliation. and what donald trump has tried to do is make it easier to fire people, but he also tried to manipulate them to instad some of his political appointees and convert them into career civil servants. it is a term in washington that is called burroing in. >> donald, i'm glad you're on it and you have an open invitation to come back and speak with me any time. thank you so much. >> american extremism. why one fbi analyst is comparing the political rhetoric to that of radical interest groups like

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this is just a young tech, he took a job a few weeks ago, going through the twitter feed, i saw the young man's name, unique name, they tracked the family, you committed treason, may god have mercy on your soul. >> gabrielle sterling, the tip that lead him to speak out. >> the former assistant director of the fbi, contributor, frank, this is up your alley, what is your reac, a 20-year-old tech, threaten wide a noose. is this something that fbi should be investigating? >> i think we should all be looking for what we in the

business call root causes. how did we get here? where is it going? we got here, because of the rhetoric we are hearing from influential people is the language of radicalization, alex. the last week to 12 day, we heard the kind of rhetoric that should get us all worried about potential to insight violence. as the clip you played is showing us. what did we see the last week or so? start with the lawyer for the president, who said on the air, that chris krebs, the cyber infrastructure security agency should be taken out at dawn and shot. drawn and quartered. this isn't funny. this is the language that gets people recruit and radicalized. whether you intend it to happen or not. the increasing polarization, it is turning into this threat.

what to terrorism experts tell us, when people think there is a threat to their being, what they believe it. when they believe that other side is not just wrong, it is from the devil. the audacity of being a pro-choice paster. saying that is a lie from the pit of hell? when we hear rhetoric like this it should wake all of us up. >> one reference that you made of the someone being drawn and quartered and shot. that was said on news max. consider the source there. that said, the latest article, you refer to elaborate, they are well pa,d and dangerous. the way groups like isis recruit

people? >> what i am saying, the language, it isn't about recruiting someone to a political party. this is about using the kind of rhetoric that people will increasingly view as a call to arms. a call to action. we have seen it before. with people like the kenosha shooter, the wal-mart shooter, identify with this leadership that call them toward violence. people wearing suits, with law degrees, masters of divinity, in the case of collins. we see the main streaming of violent rhetoric. whether they intend it or not, contribute to a volatile flash point, where the language is put into action. >> people read t it is deep. this article, it is on msnbc.com. ask you about the split between

president trump and attorney general barr, who said there is no wide spread fraud in the election. >> when you work a kidnapping, you demand to show from the kidnapper that victim is still alive. i think that attorney general barr is trying to save his personal legacy that is my personal experience with him. where he is coming from. we saw a sign of life from justice, take it for what it is. barr may get terminated because of the stand he is taking. >> we have seen it before. that is a wrap for me. on this weekend. yosmin vossoughian is up next. with sister prejon, dead man walking.

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