let's talk about that with chief analyst gloria borger.d to talk with you. >> thank you. >> the general services administration, the gsa, it's crucial in the administration. it's led by a trump appointee. how long can she refuse to acknowledge that biden won the election? >> that's hard to know -- oops, my phone, for some reason. it seems to me she can do it until december 14th when the electors decide who is the next president of the united states. you know, we have 70-plus days until inauguration, so as long as the president decides that he's not going to say, you know what? joe biden was elected president of the united states, she can do it that way. it seems to me she's inclined to listen to him, and honestly, it's very dangerous for the next administration. you have to set up offices, this costs millions of dollars, you have appointees, you have to send their applications to the government ethics office, and this just slows up government. >> as it's dangerous, and the president refuses, you know, to concede here, let's talk about the

let's talk about what we just heard there with dana bash, gloria borger and laura coates.hat did you think, gloria? we heard him say donald trump refusing to concede is an embarrassment. he also said it's not of much consequence. he doesn't see a need for legal action, and he says the american people will accept him as the president-elect and, of course, the president. what do you think about what you just heard? >> i think what we just saw was a very subdued president-elect, and i think that was purposeful. he did not want to come out there fighting at this point. he wanted to appear presidential because he is going to be president. and he also said something about the republican party. and he said that they were mildly intimidated by a sitting president. and he let it be known and just kind of dropped the names of the countries whose leaders he has heard from who are >> talking about a second trump administration which no one thinks will happen anywhere on planet earth. the other thing that struck me on that same thread is he was asked about whether or not he thinks he h

. >>> i'm going to bring in gloria borger now and dan ebberhart. the silence from republicans over the last few days have been deaf eni deafening. >> i think it's the beginning of the end. i think the cracks are widening. what these republicans are saying when they say, you know, allow joe biden to have access to the intelligence is start the transition, mr. president, understand this is over. this is not a president you with go to and say it's time to resign like barry goldwater did to richard nixon. this is a president you have to sort of take care of make sure he's okay, and then do this in a gradual way without sort of stepping all over him and getting him angry. this is one way to do it, gradu gradually they have to see the intelligence, transition has to start. >> dan, what about the republicans who continue to egg on the republicans? what is it in for them? >> i think they're in a hard spot, some of them are. most of the people in the party are really about the georgia senate elections. i know mitch mcconnell is, so they're trying not to ang

congratulations to our gloria borger and her husband lance morgan. they have a newborn grandson.roberts morgan. their son, steven morgan, and daughter megan roberts welcomed him just today. and get this. that sweet, little boy, weighing in at a whopping 10 pounds 2 ounces. we're so, so happy for the borger, morgan, and roberts family on the arrival of this beautiful baby boy. i'm wolf blitzer. i'll be back tomorrow 7:00 p.m. for situation room. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. >>> out front, next. trump trying to overturn the election. meeting tonight for an hour with republican lawmakers from michigan and his next target? pennsylvania. >>> plus, breaking news. donald trump jr. testing positive for coronavirus, as the president's legal team, including rudy giuliani, is now in quarantine after exposure to the virus. and trump's attacks on election integrity hitting the nation's poll workers especially hard. one of them happens to be a registered republican. tells me why it is so deeply personal for her. let's go outfront. and good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front, ton

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according to cnn's gloria borger and dana bash who join us shortly, he is doing it for revenge. not on behalf of the 70 million odd americans who voted for him. some greater end that justifies such drastic and unprecedented means. he's just trying to destroy the village. the most powerful person on earth doing the greatest damage possible to the oldest democracy on earth for the pettiest motive imaginable. vengeance. because he can't stand losing. it's pathetic, actually. i got to say. did you see the press conference? the train wreck with rudy giuliani with the sweat and hair dye. like, he was the -- the -- the -- conductor of this train week. ne they took this one to 11. it was next level. take a look. rudy giuliani. there he is. i mean, we got to talk about giuliani. can the producers from "intervention," please, get in touch with his people and set something up? legendary new york columnist once described giuliani as a small man in search of a balcony. now, he is just a hot mess. the man once described as america's mayor appeared sweating with newly applied hair dye rolling

according to new reporting from cnn's gloria borger and dana bash, who join us shortly, he's doing it for revenge. he's not acting on behalf of the 70-odd million americans who voted for him nor policy he believes he's. he's not motivated apparently by some greater end that justifies some drastic and unprecedented means. he's not even destroying the village in order to save it, he's just trying to destroy the village. the most powerful person on earth doing the greatest damage possible to the oldest democracy on earth for the pettiest motive imaginable, vengeance. because he can't stand losing. it's pathetic, really, and i got to just say, did you see the press conference, the train wreck with rudy giuliani with the sweat and the hair dye dripping? like, he was the conductor of this train wreck. i mean, if you thought they couldn't top the mishegas at the press conference at the four seasons landscaping parking lot next to the, you know, the porn place, they took this one to 11. it was next level. take a look. rudy giuliani, there he is. i mean, we got to talk about giuliani. can the

that will tell the story from 2016. >>> we have rick santorum and go gloria borger.blican group is now asking a federal appeals court to block drive-thru voting tomorrow. they already lost the bid to get 127,000 ballots that already voted to get them ruled ineligible. they're not, but now they're trying to get it blocked. basically it seems like taking the lead from the judge himself who sort of intimated that he didn't like the idea of drive-thru voting. >> these are not the actions of a party that feels terribly comfortable about where they are. you speak to republicans and democrats in texas, and think this race is going to be a few points either way. no one is expressing tremendous confidence, certainly not about any margin. and, look, that's mostly true around the country. one of the things i'd be concerned about if i were on the trump -- at the trump headquarters is that all these polling margins in many, many states, even states he's going to carry, are much smaller than they were four years ago, and that's been pretty uniform. so if you do the math in the sta

i want to bring in our chief political analyst, gloria borger, as well. so, gloria, conflicting advice the president's apparently receiving from his family. what have you been learning on this? >> well, you have his two adult sons, eric and don jr. who are gung ho, fight to the finish, do whatever you can because you won this election, it was a rigged election, and on and on and on. and then, you have jared and ivanka, who are are a little bit more difficult to decipher. they have been more measured, i would say, from our sources. and i should say, this is a story i did with pamela brown and dana bash. and we -- we spoke to a bunch of sources who said that, look. they know that their legacy is tied to the president's legacy. jared believes he's achieved a lot. say, in terms of foreign policy. so, they are trying to look for a way to say to the president, on the one hand, you know, you're great. you started a movement. you should be proud of this. and, on the other hand, acknowledging privately, that there's got to be an exit strategy. and maybe, that's no

i want to get deeper into this with chief analyst gloria borger and cnn's diplomatic analyst and rear admiral john kirby. welcome to both of you. gloria, again, just reminding people. you look at the calendar, 65 days. that will be here in a blink, right, until we have a new president, and this is the kind of move that this current commander in chief decides to do. why? >> because it's on his bucket list and he sees it as something that he promised he would do, and he wants to put a check mark next to it. i don't think it has much to do with national security strategy. jake tapper reported that that could be the reason why former defense secretary esper and his like-minded colleagues were pushed, because they didn't agree with this strategy, but this is something the president has decided he wants to do, so he will do it. it does complicate things for joe biden, as we all know. those of us who have known joe biden for years know he is not someone who has been for robust military intervention, but this could be something he decides he needs to reverse in midstream, so it complicates li

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. >> on the back of the professor's comments i want to go to our chief kplit call analyst gloria borger who broke the report this hour about the growing number of people telling the president to move on and accept his loss. and, dan, you and i spoke a couple days ago. i want to start with you. >> sure. >> because of this latest that now president trump, the sitting president is trying to overturn election results in michigan a state that he lost by about 157,000 votes. what is at stake here, dan? >> well, i think what's at stake here really is the republican party and the republican brand. it seems to me trump is asking us as republicans to attend a funeral of credibility right now. i think we've lost the race unfortunately and i think it's time to move on and what i hope trump will do soon though it doesn't look like this. >> gloria this is happening right, trump's refusal despite what you're hearing the people he will take calls from his friends and business associates are telling him to move on. >> right. >> they're telling him to at least let biden start his transition even if he is

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bo borger, with your experience. the encyclopedic memory. no one has ever seen anything like what we are experiencing right now in terms of the activism of our democracy. and i love that we are starting with this ceremony. but, gloria, to you, as we start here with the unofficial start of election day. the first votes cast in the country, midnight. they will be reading them in a few minutes. and when they do, we will give you that whole part of it. what does it mean that we've had more voter activism, already, than you or i have ever seen before? >> well, first of all, i think it's remarkable. in the middle of a pandemic, in the middle of an economic crisis, in the middle of a country that's been rocked by race-relations issues. that, so many americans have decided that they needed to vote. and that, they ought to vote and, maybe, one thing we have learned from this pandemic is that the secretaries of state made it easier for people to vote because they could do it from home. they could do it by absentee ballot. and that, they were home and

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our chief political analyst gloria borger and dana bash are with us. want to step back and the stunning developments we have seen the past few days. president trump's refusal to concede. his secretary of state pompeo publicly disputing the outcome of the election, the white house budget office carrying on as if mr. trump actually won to name a few of these remarkable developments. have you ever seen anything like this? >> no, i haven't, wolf. it's anti-democratic and not a product of any american values that i grew up with. and i think it is unfortunate that we are watching a parade of government officials disregard a fair election and service of donald trump's ego. and what we are also watching is revenge purges fthe president of the united states and from the secretary of defense on down and resignations of people who serve in the government because they feel they cannot be a part of this folly any more. here we are sitting back and watching this and we are watching elected officials on the republican said say, wait, wait, wait, it will be okay. we j

blitzer and this is -- we go now live to another part of studio where senior political analyst gloria borgere joe kelly seen here in a cnn dramatization. >> good evening. for those of hue missed our earlier undercard debate featuring mike huckabee and rick santorum, the results are in and everybody lost. >> let's take a break. when we return, much, much more on joe kelly seen here from outer space. you're watching "the situation room." >> that's very cute. that's it for me tonight. i must say, i'm the real wolf blitzer here in "the situation room." thanks very much for watching after a truly, truly historic week for our country. i'll be back in "the situation room" tomorrow. 5:00 p.m. eastern. cnn newsroom wistarts right now. >>> i'm pamela brown. we start with breaking news. nearly 36 hours after the presidential race was called for president-elect joe biden, the current occupant of the white house is railing against the results. sources close to the president tell me the key advisers are considering campaign style rallies amplifying baseless claims that the election was stolen from preside

according to cnn's gloria borger and dana bash who join us shortly, he is doing it for revenge.f the 70 million odd americans who voted for him. some greater end that

. >> i want to bring in gloria borger and a cnn political analyst. first to you, gloria. you've been doing some wubl reporting about what is going on in the white house. tell us what his advisers are telling him. and what is a losing battle. >> well, dana bash and i have been talking to people who either have spoken with the president, are friends of the president, and understand the kinds of, what's going on inside. and i can tell you that the president is dug in. one piece of the reporting is that he sees this as payback to democrats who never really ledge it missed his election, he believes. so he's throwing this back at joe biden. the other part of this is from a source who has spoken directly with the president who says, when they say, you know, you ought to allow the transition to occur even if you don't intend to concede. the president is dug in and says you're wrong. you're absolutely wrong. when they say to the president, you know, think about your future. this could affect how the business community sees you. who is willing to stay at a trump hotel? how will you

let's get more with gloria borger and abby phillip is here and arlette saenz is back with us. she's in delaware. this new report, gloria, jake is reporting on that esper sent a classified memo to the white house warning against this kind of immediate unilateral u.s. withdrawal of troops from iraq and afghanistan, it was the unanimous recommendation of the top military brass including the united states military central commander marine general kenneth mckenzie and nato general uaustn miller and mark milley not to do this. the president is doing this and his secretary of defense coming in is paeapparently going along with the president. >> this is a president want to get a bunch of things done on his checklist before he leaves office. the professionals on whom he apparently relied, that is past tense, because he has fired esper, told him not to do it until conditions on the ground were met and conditions on the ground, according to them, have not been met. the taliban had not been making -- breaking with al qaeda, for example, things like that. and so we now know unequivocally t

cnn's gloria borger has more. >> reporter: now that joe biden is the projected president-elect, therehardly a time when people knew his name. back in 1972, biden was 29. he decided to run for a senate seat in delaware. it was audacious, if not arrogant for wide on the run as the 29-year-old underdog candidate of change against a well-liked republican senator named kale boggs? what is your last i'm in? >> i know the miller family. >> he had been governor of the state two terms, a member of congress two terms and running for his third term in the united states senate. >> dale boggs was loved. i mean, he was loved. >> once again, biden asked valerie to run the show. >> i remember saying, oh, i can't run a state-wide campaign. i don't know how to do that. >> she reached out to a local democratic party activist ted kauffman. >> so i went down and talked to him, so you are running on civil rights. you are running on the environment? you are running on tax reform? and those are really good issues. then silence. but i said, i don't think you have a chance to win it? >> you said what? >> i don

i want to bring in gloria borger. and tim naftali to talk about this. think of is even has people believe what president trump said, if you look at the way president trump and joe biden spend their time, it's quite revealing about where they believe they will be in a couple months. >> right. i've spoken with sources who say that up until this day this president remains in his bunker convinced that or convinced himself, we are not sure, that this was a rigged election and that he should remain as president and that's why we saw rudy giuliani and his conspiracy theater which the president adheres to at all times and so he's not thinking about covid. he's not thinking about 250,000 deaths. he is thinking about his own political future. that's what he wants to talk ant and cares about and if he can't stay in the white house he wants to know what he can do with the 70 million plus voter who is voted for him and how he can take that either into 2024 or how he can monetize it at some point for himself. >> you know, tim, as you watch this, it's sort of -- it is

i want to bring in gloria borger and abby phillip to talk about this. the former president say that, i think that's something any former president would say. it's not a partisan thing, right? it's sort of a personal thing that most presidents seem to share, especially when they get to this point and think about their legacy. i wonder if this will fall on deaf ears. >> do you? >> i think it will fall on deaf ears. donald trump is not thinking about his legacy. i don't think that's the way he thinking. i think he's thinking next steps -- does he run for office again? does he run for the presidency again in 2024? how does he monetize this presidency after he leaves? how can he -- should he have a tv show? should he go around giving speeches for money? hold rallies for money? i don't think he's thinking about his place in history right now. he's already told us how he thinking about himself historically. he's the greatest president for african-americans since abraham lincoln, for example. we know that, of course, not to be true. i think his mindset is diffe

gloria borger gives us a close look at president joe biden's life in a special report airing later tonighthile president-elect joe biden was serving as haven't, his son beau was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. biden re-arranged his life and beau worried about him. while the vice president tried to help his son, the son tried to help his father. >> i absolutely believe and i'll believe it till the day i die that the thing that beau was most afraid of was not dying. what he was most afraid of is the impact it would have on his dad. that it would really take his dad out. >> did he tell you that? >> oh, yeah, oh, yeah, all the time. >> it's something the vice president wrote about in 2017 in his book "promise me dad." >> beau just made any promise -- this was just before he died. he said dad, you got to promise me you're going to be ok. i said beau -- he said dad, look at me. give me your word as a biden, dad, that you're going to be ok. >> are you ok? >> i am. because -- it is still emotional, but i knew what he meant. he was worried i'd walk away from everything i'd worked my whole

. >>> let's get more on all of this with gloria borger and political analyst maggie haberman of "the york times." the president-elect and veck vi president-elect are receiving their daily briefings. >> the president was told by friends, by allies, by advisers that giving the go ahead on this was very important even if he did not want to sdeed and whcon. it's important the president-elect should see things he otherwise would not be able to see. he doesn't want to play catch-up when he gets into the oval office. in the current president's mind, he is still fighting this election for whatever reason, we don't know. he can't admit he has lost. it is important and i'm sure it's important to joe biden in particular. >> maggie, what does it say that the trump white house finally, finally signed off and is allowing the president-elect, the vice president-elect to receive this daily briefing and do we know, by the way, who is doing these briefings for these -- for the president-elect and the vice president-elect? normally a detail brief is director of national intelligence, the cia director,

gloria borger is with me and sabrina siddiqui. gloria, first to you. let's big picture this first.comes to the current president, where are mitch mcconnell and other senate leaders? >> somewhere sitting under a rock, i think. they -- they refuse to acknowledge the obvious, at least not publicly, and not out in the open, and that's because they are looking in the short term. they're not thinking about the president undermining democracy. i would bet that a lot of these people, most of these people, if not all of these people, believe that the election was free and fair. maybe save for one or two. they don't want to poke the bear because they're worried about georgia -- >> the bear lost. >> huh? >> the bear lost. >> the bear -- the bear lost. and refuses to come out of hibernation. okay. that's enough of that metaphor. but the bear did lose and so, but they're not going to say it because they don't want to anger him because he did win more than 70 million votes and they need him in georgia, if they're going to win these runoffs, and so they don't want to do anything. they don't want

cnn chief political analyst, gloria borger reports. >> reporter: while president-elect joe biden was, was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. biden rearranged his life and bo worried about him. while the vice president tried to help his son, the son tried to help his father. >> i actually believe and i will believe it to the day i die, the thing bo was most afraid of was not dying. what he was most afraid of was the impact it would have on his dad, that it would really take his dad out. >> reporter: did he tell you that? >> oh, yeah, oh, yeah, all the time. >> reporter: it's something the vice president wrote about in 2017 in his book, "promise medad." >> bo just made me promise, this was just before he died, dad, you have to promise me you will be ok. bo, i will be -- dad, look at me. look me in your eye, dad, give me your word as a biden dad, you will be ok. >> reporter: are you ok? >> i am because it is still emotional but i knew what he meant. he was worried i would walk away from everything i worked in my whole life, the things i'd cared about that. he knew i would take ca

. >> i want to bring in abby phillip and gloria borger. gloria, let's begin with the planned withdrawal, thousands of u.s. troops from afghanistan and iraq by january 15th, just five days before president donald trump leaves office. are we seeing what some critics are describing as a scorched earth strategy emerge from the president during this lame duck period? >> reporter: yeah, this is a president, as kaitlan pointed out earlier, who is sulking, full of grievance and retribution and he's planning his comeback and whatever that may be and whatever form that may take. so what we're seeing, piece by piece, president donald trump going through a list of things he said he would do before leaving the white house. and one of them, of course, is withdrawing from iraq and afghanistan despite the fact that his own military brass, according to reporting by jake tapper, disagreed with him about doing this, but he decided to do it anyway. and so the question we all have to be asking is what is he going to do next? there was reporting today about the

let's get more from gloria borger and van jones and abby phillips.loria, the president-elect joe biden hit the ground running today and turning his focus immediately, as promised, to the coronavirus pandemic. will he be able to keep his attention on the health crisis in the face of these political distractions coming in from the president? >> the answer is yes. that is what they intend to do. i was speaking to someone in his orbit who said, look, they have not been distracted by the bright shiny object during this campaign and they are not going to be distracted now. i think the real question here, wolf, quite honestly, is will they get the money they need to organize an effective transition? this is very routine when you're bringing in a new president. it's millions of dollars. it's allowing people to establish themselves in departments, find out what they need, find out what they don't need, investigate people's backgrounds with ethics lawyers, et cetera, et cetera. bring in all of those resumes. try and change the government. right now, as you kno

gloria borger has the story. >> reporter: back in 1972 biden was 29 and he decided to run for a senateaware. it was audacious if not arrogant for biden to run as a 29-year-old underdog candidate of change against a well-liked republican senator named ca cale boggs. >> what is your last name? >> miller. i know the miller family. >> he's been governor of the state for two terms. he was running for his third term in the united states senate. cale boggs was loved, i mean, he was loved. >> once again, biden asked valerie to run the show. >> i remember saying, joey, i can't run a statewide campaign. i don't know how to do that. >> she reached out to a local democratic party activist ted kaufman. >> i went down and talked to him and said you're running on civil rights? you're running on environment? you're running on tax reform? those are really good issues. silence. i said, but i don't think you have a chance. >> you said what? >> i don't think you have a chance on winning. >> reporter: and his reaction to that was? >> just give it hell. we'll see. we'll see. >> biden was confident he could

. >>> i want to go now to our chief political analyst gloria borger and host of "smerconish," michael smerconish. you just heard ben, a trum trump-appointed elections official, making it clear this is an election we should be celebrating because it is the most secure in american history. the dhs says what the president is spewing here is nonsense, it's backed up with absolutely no facts. the president, though, today when he came out and spoke for the first time, he sort of stumbled, stopped short of saying he won. did you hear any kind of a shift here? >> only the bauble that you heard and have already noted. i think it makes logical sense that despite all of the protestations by the president about mail-in voting, it actually limits human factors, when you have fewer people going to the polls and fewer human interactions, i think one of the takeaways from this election is that we're better served as a society and as an electorate when more people are voting by mail. erin, i would just add that there's this tendency to look at the president and think there's a strategy, there's a plan

joining me now, is chief political analyst gloria borger and malik henderson and david gergen.n the final hours before election day we can't overstate the magnitude of this moment at this hour both candidates have a path to victory, don't they? >> they have a path to victory. the question is how either one of them is going to get there. wolf, we have an energized electorate like i don't think i've seen. you have two-thirds of the number of voters that voted in the 2016 election so you can see how that number is going to increase. you have incredibly polized electorate. you have the pandemic and economy and race relations. everything seems to be on the line here. and you have two candidates who could not be more polar opposite. you have one talking about unity saying i'll be the president of all america, and you have another president stoking divisions inside this country. you also have a current president of the united states who is already saying before the votes have all been cast and counted that this election is going to be rigged should he lose. put that altogether and it'

one source telling my colleague, gloria borger, what trump really cares about, besides power. well, money, right? and it's not the gop enablers and their future. he is trying to figure out how he can commercialize, monetize. this is the truth. monetize this situation. how can you make money off of the crisis? how can he make money off of the presidency? well, he's been doing that, so sorry. sorry about that. that was my mistake. like i told you last night, money collected by trump's so-called election fund can also be used to support the new leadersh leadership pack that he's established to keep his hand on the gop, and prepare for a potential run, again, in 2024. ka-ching. that's what this is about. are you sending your money? send it away. ka-ching. yet, back in '16, trump couldn't resist tweeting attacks on the green party and its candidate, jill stein, for trying to raise money for recounts. look at your screen. come on. the hypocrisy's in your face. trump calling it a scam to raise money. hmm, yep. a scam to raise money. i guess, he would know. this morning, he attacked p

heard and all that's going on with "new york times" maggie haberman and our chief analyst gloria borger. let me get your thoughts, first of all. it's such a sensitive moment we're seeing right now. by all indications, the president of the united states, rudy giuliani, what they're trying to do is undermine u.s. confidence in the american public's confidence in our democratically held election. >> that's exactly right. ron klain. the president-elect today what ron was trying to do show approaches in these two men. first of all he referred to the hysterics and stunts of the president and his people. he was clearly referring to the rudy giuliani press conference, if that's what you want to call it today. it was really conspiracy theater. then he said look at what joe biden was doing. the president of the united states was calling local election officials in michigan to try to change the outcome of this election in some way, shape or form, joe biden was meeting with local health care providers in a virtual call. he was saying look, joe biden is doing his job, trying to become the sitting pr

my team, me and my colleagues, gloria borger, dana bash, we're told behind the scenes there is a different approach in talking to the president as he tries to figure out how to come to grips with his loss in this election. our sources are telling us that ivanka trump and her husband, jared, are really trying to navigate this delicately. that they have accepted that he has lost, but that doesn't mean they want the legal fight and the recount not to happen. they want that to still happen but only for future elections, to ensure integrity for the future. they know, they have accepted that president trump lost and so they want it to be -- they want to figure out a way for the president to save face and have a graceful exit. on the other hand, you contrast that with don jr. and eric trump, where they have been much more aggressive, much more gung-ho. they want an aggressive fight. they want to do everything they can to change the outcome of this election. they still believe there is hope to do that. and so you're getting these competing, you know, suggestions to the president, but it is importa

i also want to add that gloria borger is also talking to sources, and one told her, jake, that trump is hearing from many friends and allies, urging him to at least let the transition begin, even if he doesn't concede, just to start it. and his answer is no, you're wrong. absolutely wrong. >> abby, the president knows he lost, according to this reporting, but he's blocking the biden team for his own personal revenge, because he's petulant? is there anyone around the president who can convince him to stop this? >> jake, i think the answer is clearly no. so far, no one has even really attempted to stop this. in fact, they're enabling him at the highest levels. just a few minutes ago, the gop, the republican national committee on twitter retweeted a blatantly false statement by one of the president's lawyers claiming that he won by a landslide. look, jake, everyone around the president knows that is not true. >> i've got to interrupt you there. vice president-elect kamala harris is speaking. >> we talked about what we need to do to make free testing available for everyone, to make a fre

i want to get more on all of this with our cnn chief political analyst gloria borger, cnn political reportererson and former ohio governor, john kasich, our senior cnn commentator. gloria, right now the president campaigning, and he has five states today. michigan, iowa, north carolina, georgia and florida. joe biden has more of a focused approach as opposed to this blitz. he's really focusing on pennsylvania. so, what does that tell you here in the final stretch? >> well, i think what the president is trying to do is in some way recreate his 2016 victory. and a lot of these states, as you know, brianna, he is running neck and neck or behind. what he is effectively trying to do is plug the holes in the dike there that he really might have. and what you see with joe biden is he is concentrating on getting to 270. the easiest way for him to do that, the campaign knows, is through that northern tier. and michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania. pennsylvania is the state that looks the closest in many ways. is counted, unfortunately, the latest. and so he knows if he's going to get people out to vo

three people that don't need reminding that it's not over until it's over, david axelrod, gloria borgerk santorum. he is a senior cnn political commentator. how do you see things unfolding if they are close to 270, they don't have it but he declares himself a winner? >> i think everyone knows history back in 2000. george p. bush declared himself a winner in florida. you grab the real estate and it's harder to take away. that will be his theory. the danger is that people will believe him. his supporters will believe him. when these votes come in from pennsylvania and michigan and wisconsin, if they ultimately atd add up to a defeat for the president, he will leave the impression that he has been cheated out of the presidency. that is a terrible thing for the country. that's my concern. i'm sure the biden campaign will be out there aggressively making their own declarations on election night. the president's supporters will listen to him, will believe him. i think the consequences of that could be very, very bad. >> senator santorum, as a supporter of the president would it be irresponsib

david axelrod and gloria borger, what do you think?f the people said i knew who i was voting for and why we have sort of seen these stable polls for the last month it seems to me. not only nationally where biden is hate 8 to 10 points but also in state polls. we have seen maybe the margins is closed eight about and whether they are accurate or not is the question. it seems people haven't changed their minds so you had the first presidential debate which was when we saw the greatest movement away from donald trump but after that? not much. >> i'm interested in these new voters and in voters who didn't participate in 2016. one of the theories of the trump campaign is that they are going to energize a whole bunch 7 of people who didn't participate in 2016. in polling that hasn't been the case. in the early vote, the data that has been accumulated that hasn't been the case. that has leaned toward biden but a big thing where these voters who didn't vote in 2016 or who voted for third-party candidates break in this election. >> that number f