white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports. >> alcindor: an undecided election.otes still being counted. and, president trump prematurely claiming victory. a day after polls closed, the president spent the morning casting doubt on the vote tallies from the whi house. in a flurry of tweets, he blamed mail-in ballots for why he lost leads he had last night in michigan and wisconsin. president trump wrote that his margins there "started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted." there is no evidence of that. and twitter hid that post, and a mber of others, from users, tsagging them as misleading. the twnderscored what the president has long been laying the groundwork for. in a speech at the white house00 after .m. he charged that legal mail-in balloting was fraudulent.id >> frankly, wein this election. so our goal now is to the integrity for the good of this nation. this is a big moment. this is a major fraud on our nation. we want the law to be used in a proper manner. so we'll be going to the u.s. preme court. we want all voting to stop. >> alc

white house corresponden yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. >> alcindor: "america is back." elect joe biden and his first six cabinet picks hammered home today in wilmington, delaware. as they took the stage, mr. biden declared a with the last four years. fact that america is back. the ready to lead the world, nottr t from it. >> alcindor: the memrs of thatlu team i antony blinken, a former top state departmentec official, astary of state. alejandro mayorkas as secretary security-- the cubricanmeland former prosecutor in california is the first latino and first immigrant to hold this position. and, avril haines as director of national intelligence-- the first woman to head thete igence community. vice president-elect kamala harris prais the selections, and the man who chose them. alongside them, on behalf of the american people, and on behalfho of a presidentill ask tough questions, demand that we be guided by facts, and expect our team to speak the truth. >> alcindor: if he's confirmed by the senate, blinken will inherit a legacy of global relationships in disarray from the

f>> alcindor: the news cam wilmington, delaware where mr. biden spent part of the day addrrssing a virtual u.s. mayo conference. jake sullivan as national security adviser, and linda thomas-greenfield as the united nations ambassador. and, a pair of firsts: avril haines for director of national intelligence. the first woman to head the intelligence community. and, alejandro mayorkas to be secretary of the department of homeland security. the first latino to hold this position. in addition, former secretary of state, john kerry will serve, as special presidential envoy on climate change. i and widely reported that janet yellen, former federal reserve chair, will be treasury secretary. she'd be the first woman in that role. the president-elect will formally introduce his picks tomorrow, even as he continues to wait for the transition torm lyegin. the house oversight and reform committee insisted today on having emily murphy, head of the general services administration, join a briefing tomorrow topl n why she has yet to acknowledge president-el

white use correspondent yamiche alcindor reports. >> alcindor: just six more electol college votes.t's what joe biden needed to he took the lead in georgia andn pennsylvania, according to the ased press count. that put the former vice president even closer to the ultimate prize, the white house. president trump lost h narrow lead in battleground pennsylvania as elections officials processed historic amounts of mail-in votes, and there's more hiory happening. enator kamala harris is en closer to becoming the first woman and the first black and asian american to become vice president. the vote count continued throughout the day, with both campaigns waiting out. this, after president trump took to the white house press room last night to make a slew of false claims. he outright rejected the integrity of the election. >> if you count the legal votes, i easily win. if you count the illegal votes, they can tryo steal the election from us. >> alcindor: there is no evidence of widespread the president's attacks on the democratic process continued. >> they're finding ballots all of a sudden.

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. >> alcindor: an "embarrassment."t's the way president-elect joe biden described president trump's refusal to concede the election. and mr. biden insisted it will have no effect on the hand-over of power. >> we are already beginning the transition. we're well underway. and the ility for the administration in any way by failure to recognize our win does not change the dynamic at all and what we're able to do. >> alcindor: for his part, president trump had no public events again today. but, he did take to twitter. he repeated unfounded claims of widespread fraud, saying, "watch for massive ballot counting abuse and, just like the early vaccine, remember i told you so!" and overnight, his justice department provoked new rancor. democrats at a senate judiciary committee hearing blasted attorney general william barr for telling federal prosecutors to investigate any "substantial" allegations of voter fraud. >> is there anyone on or off >> they have no evidence whatsoever of election fraud. if they did, they would certainly

house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports. >> my fellow americans, thanksgiving is a special timeamerica. >> alcindor: with the transition gettg into full swing, the president-elect took a brief pause today to mark the thanksgiving holiday. from wilmington, delaware, he the nation, proje hope asss to the nation faces more hard months of the pandemic. >> america's not going to lose this war, we'll get our lives back. life is going to return to normal i promise you, this will happen i promise you. > alcindor: and, in his strongest terms yet, he stood up for the electoral process. >> our democracy was tested this year and what we learned was this. the people of this nation were up to the task. in america we have full and fair and free elections and then we honor the results. the people of this nation won't stand for anything else. >> alcindor: at the same time, a president trump, as he continued his fight against the election's integrity. in gettysburg, pennsylvania, redblican state lawmakers h a meeting on election irregulariti. the president called in with more false claims, denyin

yamiche alcindor has our report. >> alcindor: defiant and divorced from reality, president trump spent the weekend on the golf course and twitter. he repeated familiar, unsubstantiated claims of fraud. and he continued to refuse, o admit defestead spreading disinformation. "i concede nothing," he wrote sunday. dashing hopes that he was slowly realizing he'd lost. earlier, he wrote of president- elect joe biden saying, "he won because the election was that seemed to at least acknowledge the results of the election. meanwhile, g.o.p. leaders, including house minority leadery kevin mccaare still supporting the president's refusal to concede. >> regardless of how this outcome is, you want to be able trust the election. if there was something that was wrong in this election, we do not nt to repeat it for the future either. >> alcindor: former president barack obama hit back on republicans on cbs news sunday, in his first remarks since. november >> the president doesn't like to lose and never admits loss. i'm more troubled by the fact that other republican officials who clearly know better a

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and yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for pbs news-hour.f, first to you, talking about the former president, not holding back now. he certainly wasn't holding back in the closing weeks of the campaign. but he's also -- he compares president trump to richie rich, for instance. what surprised you most in your conversation? because it strikes me that he's also very self-reflective as to whether he was too restrained as president and even the first years of the trump administration in not coming out strongly against trump and his supporters. >> right. that's a good question. one of the things he mentioned to me and one of the things that emerges in the book is this idea, this question that he asks himself, was i too restrained, was i too slow to call out some pretty significant shifts not only in ideological sorting in america, what the conservative movement was doing, but also how people were getting information. he talks a lot about the tech companies and how they create these echo chambers. he does believe that he might have been a little bi

yamiche alcindor, wilmington,la re, great to see you, thank you. >> thanks. >> brangham: we contue to explore the president's attempts to overturn the election results with nate persily of stanforsi univ law school. he is the co-founder of the healthy elections project. nate, great to see you again. there are so many ts cooking on th stove, legal pots across e country. let's talk about the lawsuits first. by my count, the trump campaign has filed maybe two dozen different kinds of lawsuits. will you remind us what are those suits, what have been they have been suing and how have they been received? >> well, there's been 31ci ons at this point, actually, or withdrawals of lawsuits and they' lost 30 of them and these lawsuits span the gamut from questioning signature verification in nevada to accusing different election offials in pennsylvania of applying different standards to democrats and republicans, all s a host of other oseernlgle objections a, for example, not enoughob rvers getting close enough to observe the ballot counting process. so far the courts ha been quite resilient and

we know our power. >> joining us now yamiche alcindor.he screen the list of firsts that kamala harris would represent as a vice president of the united states. she's already the first black woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket, first indian american to be a candidate for vice president on a major party ticket, first graduate of a historically black college or university to run for president or vp. she's the first member of a black sorority to run -- and by the way, yamiche, i believe that's your sorority. >> it is my sorority. >> and this is the one we guessed at and when i check fact checked turned out to be true, democratic on a major party presidential ticket. the major party has never gone farther west than texas on a ticket. yamiche, this is a candidacy unlike any we've ever seen. >> that's right. and no matter what happens tomorrow night she has solidified her place in history as the first black woman on a major party ticket to be a vice presidential nominee. and i can tell you from the reporting i've been doing a

yamiche alcindor and senator claire mccaskill, thank you both for starting off our discussion tonight. really appreciate it. >> you bet. >>> coming up, after four years of trump believing vladimir putin, a change is coming to the white house, including a director of national intelligence who doesn't think her job is all about pleasing the president of the united states. former cia director john brennan joins us next with his perspective on the biden national security team. system, your body needs routine. centrum helps your immune defenses every day, with vitamin c, d and zinc. season, after season. ace your immune support, with centrum. secret stops sweat 3x more ♪yo yo yo yo yo yo start your day with secret. than ordinary antiperspirants. with secret you're unstoppable. no sweat. try it and love it or get your money back. secret. ♪ all strength, no sweat the coronavirus isn't waiting. the economy isn't waiting. america shouldn't have to wait, either. the american people have spoken. the result is clear. it's time to move forward. and get to work. save for being a new customer. save

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yamiche alcindor and senator claire mccaskill, thank you both for starting off our discussion tonight. really appreciate it. >> you bet. >>> coming up, after four years of trump believing vladimir putin, a change is coming to the white house, including a director of national intelligence who doesn't think her job is all about pleasing the president of the united states. former cia director john brennan joins us next with his perspective on the biden national security team. ♪ ♪ since pioneering the suv in 1935, the chevy suburban has carried many things. nothing more important than family. introducing the most versatile and advanced chevy suburban and tahoe ever. did is locatedhat 70% of youin your gut?tem to boost your immune system: try align gut health & immunity support. align's quality probiotic strain, adds more good bacteria to your gut, to help strengthen your immunity. try align today. well, here's to first dates! you look amazing. and you look amazingly comfortable. when your v-neck looks more like a u-neck... that's when you know, it's half-washed. try downy fabric condition

yache alcindor, i'm goingo write bring you into the conversation quickly.not celebrating. the president is there but watching. >> reporter: that's right, the president is not celebrating but there is a celebration outside the white house gates wth fireworks going off as joe biden and kamala harris were speaking. the president never did the things you just saw joe biden and comashz to do, they sought to unify the country. they talked about not being gi divideed. the president downplayed the virus throughout his campaign and it contributed to his failure. there's also a lit by the of poetry. senator kamala harris spoke and anding ton shoulders of women who came before talking and south asian women.ck women wesident trump began his political careerith the birther conspiracy theory, the one that said the fst african-american president wasn't born in this con and is to the white house.oman coming >> woodruff: coming full circle, yamiche alcindor at the white house. now i'll bring in our miles o'brien who is in georgia where they are still counting votes. miles,

nate: yamiche alcindor was talking bit about this. i think there are several strategies a foot.m strategy, the hope these lawsuitsight flip enough votes it would lead to one or trump column.hifting to the ththere is a strategy of casting doubt on the legitimacy ofn the election and joe bi president. that serves two purposes.on undermining the biden administration. theta other, to spur legislators to say, this election was inhereny flawed. therefore, we ther egislature une constitution will designater electors ump for the electoral college. that is such a far-fetched and unlikely possibility. it has not happened before. it is the nuclear option, the idea you would overturn an election and take away the rights of the voters and replace them with the rights of the politicians in the state legislators -- legislatures. william: let's hope it es not come to that. thank you very much. ♪ judy: today in the middle east, mike pompeo beca the first secretary of state to visit the golan heights settlements in the ounced majand a shifts in u.s. policy. to discuss i am joined by nick schifrin

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. >> reporter: today the first wave of president-elect biden's cabinet announcement. >> (indiscernibl. because it's not the security. >> the news came from wilmington, delaware where bidn spent the day addressing a virtual mayor confence. his pick tony blinken a top phicial as secretary of state, jake sullivan asnational security adviser and linda thomas-genfield as the united nations ambassador, and a pair of firsts, avril haines for director of imagine. the first woman to head the intelligence commuty. and alejandro mayorkas to be secretary of the department of homeland security, the filart no to hold this position.me in addition fosecretary of state john kerry will serve as special presidential envoy on climate change and widely reported janet yellen federal reserve chair will be treasury secretary, the first woman in that role. thsipredent-elect will formally introduce his picsa tomorrow evehe continues to wait for the transition to begin. on sunday ron klain urged the trump administration to begin the transition. >> a

yamiche alcindor, an msnbc political analyst. and let me begin with you. what are we to make of donald trump's silence especially when we're watching joe biden go out day after day and make presidential addresses to the nation? >> based on my reporting the president is fuming and really he's starting to feel deflated in some ways. the mood at the white house is one of solemn indignation as well as people trying to feel like they want to fight but really understanding the math just isn't on their side. of course the president would have to run the table in order to win this election. and he can't do that because he'd have to of course win -- he couldn't possibly do it, but looks like he would do it and people around the president he spent most of the day watching tv. what you can make of that silence the president doesn't know what to say because there's so many people in the white house trying to maybe tell the president he might lose this. another thing to notice now just tonight with the chief of staff having come up tested positive and bloomberg is repo

. >> woodruff: and lisa joins me now, along with yache alcindor. yamiche, to you, first, as we just heard in lisa'report, the president is meeting with these michigan state officials todaon the same day georgia certifies its results for joe biden. tell us what the president's strategy is here. >> we end is weekuch like we began with theup insisting that he won the 2020 election without any evidence to prove that and joe biden is the not ac president-elect. he is doing that and becomingmo brazen and bold and as his people in his inn circle get sicker and sicker. adds to a long list of people including the white house chief of staff, the press secretarye a esident and a number of the others who have had the virus. critics of thye president s what we're witnessing with president trump is someone who's tryingo subvert american democracy, someone who's trying america.the very foundation of tonight the president had two top michigan officials at the white hous t i'm toy were here this afternoon, they left a short time ago it's not clear what was said but

yamiche alcindor, lisa desjardins, thank you both. >> woodruff: how to end our longest war? we heard the white house and the pentagon both promise todayo ring u.s. troops home. nick schifrin has the details. >> schifrin: judy, the u.s. is reducing its forces in three countries: afghanistan, iraq, and somalia. there are currently more than 4,000 forces in afghanistan, and 3,000 in iraq. by january 15, there will be 2,500 u.s. forces in eac country in total. here's what acting defense secretary miller said today about the withdraw from afghanistan. >> this is consistent with our established plans and strategic objectives, supported by american people. it does not equate to a change in u.s. policy oobjectives. >> schifrin:e now turn to a man who was at the center of president trump's decisions, serving as national security advisor.d retieutenant general h.r. mcmaster also served numerous tours in iraq and afghanistan. his latest book is defend the free world." to >> general, welcome back." to the "newsho thank you very much. let's start on the afghanistan drawdown. as we heard,

. >> woodruff: and we turn now to our lisa desjardins, to yamiche alcindor, and to nick schiffrin. lisa, let me come back to you first on the biden campaign. how are they reacting to everything, including the legal proceedings by the trump people, refusing to concede? >> first of all, judy, they're very busy. i think the word i hear from all sources in and around the biden campaign, they are focused. they know there is a lot of work to be done. let's take apart sort of this transition, the issues we're having with the g.f.a. administrator. the biden administration sent me a statement that they look forward to the g.s.a. administrator as seascertaining they that won. they are not too worried about them failing to release the money for the transition. they say they have been raising money for months, then have their transition teams ready to go and they're deploying them. one reason for that, judy, is the law that describes and sort of projects how this transition should work is written by ted koffman, one of the key advisors for president-elect biden. and also to add to reporting we

nick schifrin, yamiche alcindor, lisa desjardins, thank you all three. as we reported, this is a transition of power unlike any we have ever seen. to help us understand what's happening, i'm joined by david marchick. he's the director of the center for presidential transition. it's a nonpartisan group that helps presidents and candidates prepare for the next administration. david marchick, thank you very much for joining us. how unusual is what is going on right now in terms of compared with other transitions? david: thank you for having me. there have been peaceful transitions of power for 223 years. this is very unusual. this is not like the year 2000 11 state, 500 37 votes determined the outcome of 270 electoral votes. here, there a very wide margin. the outcome is clear as president george w. bush said and the transition should be moved forward. judy: that's exactly what i wanted to ask you and i posed this question to ben ginsberg. you hear republicans saying we gave al gore 37 days and 2000, why can't we do the same thing? you are saying they are j

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports. yamiche: the campaign's final day and both candites rushing to rally supporters, each in his own way. prident tru mounted a blitz, hopping across four states to help deliver him the presidency in 2016. wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania and northarolina. >> remember what i said four years ago. i said i am your voice and we willake america great again. yamiche: former vice president joe biden focused his attention first ohio. >> my message is simple. the power to change the country in your hands. yamiche: but today, pennsylvania is the key state that gotnt atn. >> we will cover a lot of ground today. joe is going to be here. yamiche: biden's running mate, senator kamala hars, rallied residents in an effort to flip back an area that last cycle help to president trump. s i think you all know and that'y we are all here and keep coming back, because we care about pennsylvania and because pennsylvania will determine the outcome in this election. yamiche: the president also visited the rally.

yamiche alcindor, mike memoli, thanks very much. and tonight joe biden laid out some of his top priorities for when he takes office, saying his work to combat the pandemic starts tomorrow. >> on monday i will name a group of leading scientists and experts as transition advisers to help take the biden-harris covid plan and convert it into an actual blueprint that we'll start on january 20, 2021. that plan will be built on bedrock science. it'll be constructed out of compassion, empathy and concern. i'll spare no effort, none, or any commitment to turn around this pandemic. >> all right, let's bring in dr. vin gupta, pulmonologist and global health policy expert at the university of washington medical center and an msnbc medical contributor. now one of the most prominent voices in our country. if i can, doctor, indulge me here with a two-part question. one is a very straight yes or no. have you been contacted by the biden-harris team to be part of this team of experts since you are a voice in this country that has become so widely res

joining us now yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for the pbs hour.ald trump's first public comments in seven days. and zerlina maxwell. both are msnbc political analysts. and i'm not at all surprised you weren't offered any chance to ask a question today in that rose garden exhibition that donald trump is still with us and can still speak. but when we turn to the issue of what's happening in the final days of the trump administration as laurie garret just demonstrated, there is a very serious public health crisis involved in the trump administration refusing to open the doors to the incoming biden administration in these remaining 68 days. >> that's right. and the more this transition goes on and is delayed by president trump, the harder it can be for a president-elect joe biden to enact policies that keep americans safe from this virus. chief among them is the actual distribution of the covid-19 vaccine that president trump was just talking about in the rose garden. it could be slowed by the fact that joe biden's agency heads and personnel are not b

problematic for them they feel like their lead will continue to go up in key states. >> yamiche alcindorael steele, phil rutger, thank you to you all. i know no one's had any sleep. we should all take care of each other. >>> ahead, will the gop's legal challenges to voting laws make their way to the supreme court. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" here on msnbc. we made a cloud flexible enough to adapt to any size business. no matter what it does, or how it changes. and we kept going. so you only pay for what you use. because at dell technologies, we stop...at nothing. ♪ becnew projects meansologies, you need to hire.gers. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database. claim your seventy five dollar credit, when you post your first job at indeed.com/home. why?! ahhhh! incoming! ahhhahh! i'm saved! water tastes like, water. so we fixed it. mio. here? nah. ♪ introducing the all new chevy trailblazer. here? nope. ♪ here. ♪ when the middle of nowhere, is somewhere. the all new chevy trailblazer

lisa desjardins reporting on the biden camp yamiche alcindor at the white house.nk you both. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, stocks rallied on wall street over optimism about progress on a covid-19 vaccine. the dow jones industrial average soared 399 points to close at nearly 29,480. the nasdaq rose 120 points, and the s&p 500 closed at a record high for the first time since september, adding 48 points. at least seven people have died in north carolina, in flash flooding triggered by tropical storm eta. roads and bridges were swept away after some places were inundated with as much as ten inches of rain. one person also died in florida. meanwhile, tropical storm iota has formed in the caribbean. it is expected to become a hurricane late sunday as it barrels toward central america. the death toll from the catastrophic typhoon in the philippines has now risen to at least 42 people. 20 others are still missing. more than 400,000 people were evacuated. clean-up efforts are underway now that floodwaters have started to recede. residents who were able to return to

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. >> good afternoon, everyone.amiche: america is back. that's the message president-elect joe biden and his first six cabinet picks tohammered homy in wilmington, delaware. as they took the stage, mr. biden declared a break with the last four years. >> it's a team that reflects the fady that america is back, r to lead the world, not retreat from it. yamiche: the members of that team include antony blinken, a former top state depar official, as secretary of state, alejandro mayorkas as secretary of the department of homeland security, the first latino and first immigrant to hold this position.and avril haines as dif national intelligence -- the first woman to head the intelligence community. vice president-elect kamal harris praised the sons and the man who chosthem. >> w i look forward king alongside them on behalf of the american people, and on behalf of a president who will ask tough questions, demand that we be guided by facts, and expect our team to speak the truth. yamiche: if he's confirmed by the senate, bli

john yang and yamiche alcindor, thank you both.'s turn to our dan bush, who is in philadelphia, in the key state of pennsylvania. he has been washing -- watching the returns. we heard about the wait for votes in pennsylvania. how is the process going? what is known about the votes that are not counted yet? dan: behind me, there is a heightened police presence and protests in pennsylvania as the state continues to count its mail-in and absentee ballots. the state received 3 million of those ballots and has counted 1.7 million but there are a lot to go. these ballots being counted now are not fraudulent, as the president claimed. they are also not late. they were received under state law by 8:00 p.m. on election day yesterday and are now being counted. its just a matter of resources in larger counties like philadelphia. they can process 30,000 of these ballots. smaller counties, only a few thousand so it will take time. officials are not putting an official time on it, but i have spoken to several who say they hope to finish counting

let's bring in msnbc contributor yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for pbs news hour. last night we got what the day was like for joe biden. what's the next three months going to be like for joe biden? >> yeah, very difficult work of preparing to govern and ultimately governing begins very soon with the work of it transition team. the biden transition team has been working quietly over the last few months. really as early as march i'm told by sources involved in the transition to get ready with this. and joe biden one of his most trusted aides who was his chief of staff in the senate who actually wrote the law governing transitions has been working behind the scenes to get ready for it. we saw tonight an effort to kick that off. the speech we saw from the former vice president tonight it was both the cap stone of the campaign. he talked about the margin of victory, the record number of votes he received. but he also began an effort to govern, to take the very difficult work of something he promised throughout the campaign, trying to unite the country and set the tone f

lisa desjardins, yamiche alcindor, thank you both. >> woodruff: while president- elect biden continues to push forward with transion planning, there are several states yet to be called. in georgia, biden leads president trump by more than 14,000 votes and the state will conduct a hand recount of nearly five million ballots. the state's republican congressional delegation has asked for an investigation into any claims of voter fraud. but the secretary of state, also a republican, says no such claims have been substantiated. congressman buddy carter is a republican from georgia and he joins me now. congressman, thank you very much for talking with us. first of all, do you expect this count to go ahead tomorrow and do you expect to-- what do you expect it to show? >> well, i do expect for it to go forward. and it should go forward. and let me clarify that the congressional delegation, the house delegation, what we asked for was for the secretary of state to grant the wishes of the donald j trump campaign and georgia republican party. and the secretary of state has done that. he has acknow

. >> woodruff: lisa joins us from wilmington, delaware, and yamiche alcindor is at the white house. to both of you. lisa, to you first, and this is the first day, i guess, joe biden has not made public remarks since he was declared the president-elect, but we know the transition planning continues. tell us where that stands. >> not a day off for the biden transition, judy, that's for sure. they have more than 4,000 positions, about that many, to appoint in government, and they're on their way going through that list. judy, it's interesting, i talked to an advisor yesterday who told me that the way they're going about that is to look at the policy, try and find the people who will best enact policies joe biden wants from healthcare and supporting the affordable care act to climate change, to a range of other things including thincludingthe minimum-wage. on that front, i can also report that we do think that they will start announcing some potential top staff starting at the top with the chie chief of staff, af that announcement for the wte house chief of staff under president biden w

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports. >> reporter: the campaign's fil day, and both candidat rushing to rally supporter each in his own way. president trump mounted a blitz, helped deliver hiur states that presidency in 2016: wisconsin, michigan, pennsyania and north carolina. >> remember what i said four years ago, i said: i am uryo voice and we will make america great again. >> reporter: former vice president jobiden focused his attention first on ohio. power to change the countrhe inour hands. >> reporter: but today, pennsylvania is the one key stattthat got the m attention. >> we're going to be covering a lot of ground today, joe is going, jill's going to be here, do's going to be here. >> reporter: biden's running mate, senator kamala harris, rallied redents in luzerne county. it was an effort to flip bk an area that last cycle helped hand the state to president trump. >> i think you all know and that's why we' all here, we keep coming back, because we care about p.a. and p.a. is going to determine the outcome of this election. >> reporter: the president also visited the

yamiche alcindor at the white house. thank you both. stephanie: i'm stephanie sy with "newshour" west. while -- we'll return to judy woodruff and the full program after the latest headlines. governor steve sisolak of nevada said today that he had tested positive for covid-19. the 66-year-old democrat is the fifth governor to report a positive test this year. sisolak says he was not experiencing any symptoms. nevada today reported its hight single day total since the start of the pandemic. at least seven people have died in nor carolina, in flash flooding triggered by tropical storm eta. roads and bridges were swept away after some places were inundated with as much as 10 inches of rain. one person also died in florida. meanwhile, tropical storm iota has formed in the caribbean. it's expected to become a hurricane late sunday as it barrels toward central america. the death toll from the catastrophic typhoon in the philippines has now risen to at least 42 people. 20 others are still missing. more than 400,000 people were evacuated. cleanu

we begiwith white house correspondent yamiche alcindor. we want to talk to her about how the day played out at the polls. >> finally, it election day 2020, the end of a bitter campaign cycle and at last the spotlight son voters. no matter their candida of choice today, americans lined up at polng sites to finish what 100 million other voters already started. >> i wanted to make sure my vote counted, i wanted to make re nothing possibly could happen to it.ei so b here in person huge. >> reporter: for vice president biden, it was sentimental. in wilmington, delaware, he visited his son's grave. he reminded campaigners why he ran. >> i want to rese basic decency and honor to the white house. >> reporter: for his part, president trump began election day as in 2016. speaking to a cheering crowd just past midnight in grand rapids, michigan. >> for the last four years,he depraved swamp has tried everything to stop me and to b stop ycause they know i don't answer to them, i answer to you. r:at's why we're here. >> reporours later, he did something

white house correspondent for pbs news hour yamiche alcindor.nd historian and the american presidency at vanderbilt university, jon meacham who unofficially advices president-elect joe biden. so let's go through the events from yesterday that led to the trump administration beginning to recognize joe biden as the president-elect. it started with the state of michigan's top election board voting yesterday to certify president-elect joe biden's win over president trump with the margin of more than 154,000 votes. three out of four board members including one republican voted to certify the election results. the other gop board member withheld his vote. and though the president himself is not conceding, the trump administration is finally cleared the way for the biden transition. the head of the general services administration informed the president-elect yesterday that he had been approved as the apparent winner of the election. unlocking federal funds for his transition and allowing him to coordinate with federal agencies, even more urgent amid th

yamiche alcindor has our report. pres. trump: who knows which administration it will be?: defiant and divorced from realitypresident trump ent the weekend on the golf course and on twitte he repeated familiar, unsubstantiated claims of frd d. continued to refuse to admit defeat, instead spreading disinformation. "i concede nothing" he wrote sunday. dashing hopes that he was slowly realizing he'd lost.r, earle wrote of president-elect joe biden saying quote, "he won because the election was rigged." that seemed to at least acknowledge the results of the election. but president trump later deleted that tweet. gop leaders, including house ngnority leader kevin mccarty, are still supporhe president's refusal to concede. >> regardless of how thiyo outcome is, want to be able to trust t election. if there was something that was wrong in this election, we doo not wantpeat it for the future either. yamiche: former president barack obama hit backn republicans on cbs news sunday, in his firstsi remarke november 3. mr. obama: the president doesn't admits lose and nev loss i'm more t

with the biden transition in wilmington, peter alexander at the white house and joined by yamiche alcindor, msnbc political contributor. happy day before thanksgiving to all of you. ali what are we expecting to hear from the president-elect and details he revealed at the transition in that fantastic sitdown, i thought, with lester holt? >> reporter: really great wide-ranging interview with our colleague lester holt last night, and striking to me, listening to biden have a more optimistic tone about the way i hi-of-his transition is going. a stark contrast of the way we heard him talk about being in limbo. now that the information is flowing freely between the people currently in government and's biden's transition team right now, he seems to be in a better place saying he doesn't want to look back but ahead. instead, that the outreach so far has been sincere. i'm told by a transition aide that they've already set meetings and had contact with every single federal agency. they're beginning to set more of those meetings and i'm told most of them are virtual at this point but that the outreac

besser, yamiche alcindor is here with a question. yamiche. >> good morning, dr. thanks so much for being here. my question is what's your best advice for vulnerable populations and communities that don't have the privilege to do things like social distance or work from home. i've talked to so many immigrants who have to go to work, who have to take public transportation, who live in an apartment that's seven people to two bedrooms. what should they do as these spikes continue? >> yeah. when you look at why black americans, latino americans, native americans are being infected, hospitalized and dying at incredibly high rates, the biggest factor in that is differences in exposure. so many are essential workers doing those things to keep society going. what it's going to take is ensuring that congress steps up and provides people with what they need to be safe. there are many people in america who are forced every day to decide between going to work, put food on the table and pay the rent or staying home so that they can be safe, and back in the spring, congress cam

yamiche alcindor and lisa desjardins are here with the latest.h hello to b you.ie, to you first. we are now more than two weeks since election day. the president still insists he has not lost. he is continuing to mount these dallenges. wh we know right now? yamiche: the president is estle back the selectionbid to somehow from president-elect joe biden. today, that wrestling back took the form of a partial recount. the trump campaign is ilmanding a $3on partial recount in wisconsin focusing on two specific counties, dane county and milwaukee county. that's important because critics say these are democratic strongholds that will not art all be overturned even if you recount the votes. the trump campaign coue asked for an $8 million statewide recount, but they are not doing that to save money, but tary want to show the still in the fight. campaign sources say the president feel he still c win the fight but critics say this is nothing more than theatrics as the president is cong to have lawsuits in a number of states including nevada, pennsylvania, and georgia and si

we turn now to our lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor. hello to both of you. lisa, i will start with you, lindsey graham, admitting he did reach out to officials in states where the trump campaign the resu. this is ghly unusual. as we know. what can you tell us about it? lisa' is also significant because he's the chairman of the judiciary committee that oversees law enforcement in this country. chairman graha spent the last day explaining to reporters what he believes he said. explains it.ow he he said "i wanted to find out how you verify mail-in ballot signatures, and that was the extent of the conversation with the secretary of state of georgia." senator graham is saying technology and georgia was up to the snuff for figuring out those ballots, and whether the signatures are accurate for mail in votes. but the secretary of state says li part of the conversation, senator graham i large numbers of ballots should be thrown out in ballots that the technology did not meet whatever senator graham's standard was. at he said ieral.tions gbout i think when we talk ab

white house mirrespondent e alcindor reports.ec pres.my fellow americans, thanksgiving is a special time in america. yamiche:ith the trantion getting into full swing, the president-elect took a brief pause today to mark the thanksgiving holiday. from wilmington, delaware, he delivered a virtual address to the nation, projecting hope as the nation faces more months of the pandemic. pres.-elect biden: america's not going to lose this war, we'll get our lives back. life is ing to return to normal, i promise you. this will happen, i promise youo this willast forever. yamiche: in his strongest terms yet -- he stood up for the electoral procesbi pres.-elecn: our democracy was tested this year. what we learned was this. the people othis nation were to the task. in america, we have full and fair and free elections and then we honor the results. stand for anything else. yamiche: at the same time, a stark contrast in tone from president trump, as he continued his fight against the election's integrity. in gettysburg, pennsylvania, republican state

tonight and we turn now to yamiche alcindor, she is outside the white housjoe, an yang is again in whiington, delaware, near the biden campaign. yamiche, with all of the lawsuits being filed by the trump campaign is their legal strategy? >> the president, as well as his legal advisors are employing the strategy e presiden th use for years, and that is flooding the zone with i misinformation, and we're seeing accusationssations. in arizona, pennsylvania, michigan, as well as nevada. they areeally making a grab-bag of accusations here, including that dead people are voting, that people are not being allowed to see the votes that are connected to the president, or who are republicans who want to make sure that the votes are being counted accurately. they're also saying that people who maybe didn't meet the residency requirement voted. they want votes that are favorable of president to be counted, and they don't want the votes that are favorable to joe biden to be counted. the trump campaign isck pushing n that. and there are legal actions looking bad for the prest, including a judge in georgia

friend of this broadcast, pbs news hour white house correspondent and msnbc political analyst u misha alcindor. your best knowledge of what you think is going on inside this west wing and inside the head of this president. >> well, the president really is angry at where he stands right now. his path to victory is very, very narrow. i talked to someone close to the president who said the only way they think he will win re-election is by having recounts and then he would have to win state after state while, of course, joe biden only really at this point is looking at the having to win one state, of course, the ap has called arizona. we see the president lashing out. he is making unfounded claims. he is having in some ways a whole grab bag of accusations that are not founded. he has no evidence for what he is saying. he is floundering, trying his best to try to make the case that he has won this election when, of course, he simply has not. and people close to the president tell me his mood is somber, his mood is anger, his mood is also looking at republicans trying to figure out who has his back