we not only saw ben carson tested positive, but now david bossey, who worked on president trump's 2016 campaign, but he was tapped to oversee all the legal challe lengds whnges when to the election. he was overseeing that, and now here hearing he also contracted coronavirus. he did not comment, but we know he's been in trump headquarters multiple times over the last week, he traveled to arizona, and now we know that david bossey does have coronavirus. >> kaitlan collins, thank you for all that at the white house. >>> the post-trump era is coming into effect as joe biden and his team move quickly to battle the biggest thing in the country, as we were just mentioning, the coronavirus pandemic. this morning biden announced the members of his coronavirus advisory board, including rick bright. he's a whistle blower from the trump administration who alleged that his warnings about the pandemic were ignored and he was later removed. what was b jeff zeleny is here. jeff, what was biden's message this afternoon? >> reporter: there is no doubt that president bid-elect biden holding a briefing an

david bossey leading that one. the news out of phoenix, the trump cam still believes, firmly confident that they have the votes to win it when everything is counted. there's 417,000 ballots according to the campaign left to count. the current split is 68,000 between the president and joe biden. after tonight's ballot count dump, they expect the president will be within 40,000 votes open joe biden. there will be another 325,000 ballots left to go. they believe they have the numbers and the percentages for the president to per vail. less to what david bossey said a short time ago. >> even today, there's hundreds of thousands of votes. i can tell you it's trending in the direction of. donald trump. >> in the current trends continue as we have seen because we follow the science, president trump will overtake joe biden and we're going to win. >> that was not david bossie in a red dress. that was the arizona republican chair woman. in nevada, they filed a federal lawsuit this afternoon. the complaint from if the -- the t

the president also tapping david bossey, his 2016 deputy campaign manager, to be the face and kind of the head honcho for his legal team as he pursues those legal fights. craig, the fact that the president is sort of building the plane as he flies it with his legal team despite telegraphing for weeks really that he intended to litigate this election through the courts if need be is raising real questions about whether the trump campaign has a team in place to really do something here. >> bossey being tapped to be the james baker -- >> right. >> -- if you will of the 2000 recount there. ali vitali, i think that was probably the speech joe biden didn't want to give last night but they have been projecting optimism. what are you hearing behind the scenes? >> reporter: you would imagine right, craig. that was not the speech that the former vice president wanted to give last night. it also really underscores just how fast moving this has all been and how fragile this situation is, because over the last 24 hours we've seen the full range of emotion from the biden team from feeling just opti

you heard david bossey saying that they can still flip the state of arizona.t's the lay of the land. i didn't take you to georgia or north carolina. by then you'd be bored. take my word for it, it's tight and close and changing. not by big margins, but with such small margins that it can make a dramatic impact these days. >> neil: and the count goes on. one by one. all right. thank you very much. bill hemmer on that. you're probably wondering by the stock market was advancing today and yesterday and the day before that as the day before that as the friday before that in the face of this confusion. in fact, even more so now. post election day and all the new confusion. why is that? why are we now looking with one day to go one of the best weeks for the markets since back in april after one of the worst weeks for the market since back in march? john bussey is here with us and heather is also here. what is going on? has to be a disconnect or is there a connect? >> right. all of the -- despite all the election uncertainty, the stock market is heading higher becaus