friendship group this new report thanks for joining it's good to have you on the program what does bob biden victory name for german u.s. ties. first it's good to have a president who understand of cooperation is win win thing and it's not about only deal with losers and and when there's a 2nd it's good to have a president who is not spreading untrue and is not offensive when it comes to germany publicly but we absolutely see that the major task for the next is not united states our good side our domestic issues it's about racism it's about. managing the economy and the pandemic so it absolutely necessary to understand for europe and for germany that this is maybe the last call for us to stand for and. stand up and then just relying on the american calorie coming in my mini state touched on a couple of issues they one about controversial issues like germany's contribution to night or to the north's train to gas pipeline which the times of ministration says once germany too dependent on russia is a biden administration likely to take a different approach on these issues. nelson is a perfect e

bob: do you consider joe biden to be president-elect? sen. toomey: bob, as i have said, there is a process we go through. it is perfectly fine for the media to make their projections. and after a certain point, the media has a certain amount of evidence to make those projections. that being said, elections are not determined by media projections. they are determined by counting votes. and we are almost finished with the vote count in pennsylvania for instance, we are finished in many states, we are finishing in others. but even that is not the end of the process. if it is close enough, as you know in pennsylvania, there is an automatic recount whether theidates want it or not if enough.s narrow it looks like the margin probably will be slightly outside what would automatically require a recount. but then the losing candidate can still seek a recount. so that is probably going to happen. then there is litigation. we are a litigious society and our elections have litigation pretty frequently. i think we are going to adjudicate several disputes.

bob: take me inside the biden. the delaware inner circle, you are part of that political world in a deep way. the final few weeks in this campaign have been rough. president trump has gone after vice president biden's mental acuity. he's gone after his son, hunter biden, and the family's business relationships in the past. what has that been like. do you believe vice president biden has said enough to defend himself? aboutthe incredible thing joe biden and this entire campaign, i have been there since day one. i started off with a conversation with him before he decided to formally announce. in that conversation, the things he talked about, first of all, at the advent, it was after charlottesville happened. core, ithaken to the caused him to say "i want to step up and be a part of uniting this country." then as we went into the pandemic, it really became clear, and he said it on the first debate stage, which i was in the audience. i will never forget, he looked at the camera and said "it's not about trump's family,

bob: let's go back to biden in washington. what happens if president-elect biden decides to put a republican in the cabinet? would you have trouble with that? rep. jayapal: it depends on which republican. at the end of the day it is , about what are the goals we are trying to achieve? i'm not comfortable with republican who once to move to privatization of our education system, as an example. the so-called ed reformer movement has not been helpful to us in fighting for racial justice and education were fighting for every student to be able to have an opportunity, on . on climate change if there was a , republican who has been good on climate -- and we have had those in our state, some of the best climate champions who were republicans. i don't like to say, well, we don't went in republican. -- want a republican. it is about what are we trying to deliver for people. if we have people who are willing to say no to the big fossil fuel companies, the big corporate interests that are stopping progress and willing to deliver for the

bob bauer was white house counsel under president obama. he is now playing the lead role in the biden campaign's legal efforts to protect the vote. bob bauer has publicly expressed confidence in the lead-up to this election, that whatever president trump is fantasizing he might do to try to escape this election, through force or through taking things over somehow, he will fail at that. bob bauer has said publicly that the president will not be able to do that. it's one thing to hear from some dopey pundit, right? but it's another thing to hear it from the guy who is running the legal shop for the joe biden for president campaign. joining us now live is bob bauer, senior adviser on the biden campaign, supervising the legal strategy around the election. mr. bauer, i really appreciate you taking the time tonight. thank you. >> it's a pleasure. thank you. >> i know there have been dozens of lawsuits already at various places in terms of their resolution. are you seeing a trend already or some kind of through line that even us non lawyers can understand, in terms of how the courts are view

i like what bob power, biden's lawyer said. you know, this is theater and it's just going to play to a smaller and smaller audience over the next couple of days and weeks as john said. >> do you really believe that? >> i do. >> go ahead, john. >> i do, don. i think we need to understand the point that mark made earlier and you and i have talked about before. donald trump is not a psychologically healthy person. he does not have a normal adult control over his emotions and his impulses. it feels devastating to him to be defeated and so as mark indicated, he's got to blow up, kick up a bunch of dust to sort of cover the embarrassment of the fact that he has been beaten. whether or not he runs in 2024, he is going to be compelled and is compelled to do that in any case. >> what about, john, are his supporters, do they have any concern about the possibility that he may be taking or raising the money that they're sending him thinking it's for recounting and defense and he can use it to pay off other debts, other campaign debts or it

but i will just say, bob, joe biden is going to come into, let's just say that joe biden wins from our lips to god's ears as they say, but let's say he comes into the white house, i do believe he is a man of tremendous principle, tremendous compassion who understands the defining moments that this country is in. and i think joe biden understands and has talked about wanting to have an fdr-type legacy, understanding that covid-19 put a floodlight on so many of the inequities that existed long before covid hit, but it really showed us where we are as a country and what we have to do to bring about justice. combine that with the reckoning that america is having with our legacy of white supremacy and anti-blackness, and i think this is a moment were joe biden in and of himself is committed to trying to deliver real structural change. all of that said, of course we're going to push hard to make sure we get as many bold structural reforms as we can get to really bring about opportunity in our country. >> you decide you're going to push hard. i have read that you resisted the comparison of th

well the biden team has been really preparing for this for months the chief legal adviser to joe biden bob barr he's a former counsel in the obama white house and he was made very clear that the trumpet ministration that insisted that this was going to happen that should the results be disfavor able and favorable to the. white house then they were going to legally contest it they made no secret of that over a period of time and obviously the democrats were able to prepare for it so bob barr said what is called a boiler room a team of lawyers who are basically preparing to any of these allegations that the lawyers may be bringing and they have been dispatched to various states where these legal actions are taking place they are contesting each and every one of these actions a large number of the actions have already been thrown out by judges or by courts in various states and various counties there is one major case that has gained some traction and that is the supreme court has accepted a from the trump campaign to intervene or to allow the trump campaign to become a code sewer basically i

well the vote in team has been preparing for this for weeks if not months strangely enough biden's legal head bob bauer who is a counsel in the obama white house was just saying a few days ago before the election that the trumpet ministration and its lawyers had made very clear 'd what their tactics were going to be they had been saying for weeks that they were going to dispute any elections that they filter were going against their favor or any vote counting their words going against their favor so the biden lawyers had a lot of time to prepare and bob barr said what is called a boiler room this is a collection of lawyers who have been preparing for precisely what has been happening in the past day and that is they go out to various states and various counties where the campaign or local state campaign organizers are bringing cases to bear against judges and in courts and they contest the aim and say the lawyers is to ensure that every vote is counted they're not out there looking for legal fights they out there because of the cases being brought by trump the campaign people and by as i say by t

bob supports joe biden. good morning. me -- thanketting you for letting me call in. what bothers me the most is they anddemocrats are communists socialists. whocialist is somebody depends on the government solely for their income. every schoolteacher, every police officer, complete cities and counties, all of our parks, national parks, politicians, anybody who draws a government check. when you see people working on the highways and all the construction going on, those thele are depending on dollars to support their families. nation civil with what you would call socialism. that's our country. this is a socialist capitalist country. i have a friend who is a canadian and said, you know, america doesn't realize there is already socialist. host: let's go to mary calling from louisiana. good morning. jesse. hi, host: go ahead. caller: i hope you let me finish what i need to say. i already know what's going to happen as far as this election. the democrats couldn't impeach him so they started planning and coordinated to get together and they thought on what they are going

biden. senator bob casey releasing a statement saying, quote, when all the votes are counted joe biden is going to win pennsylvania and be well on his way to necessary electoral votes to win the presidency echoing the state's attorney general josh schapiro tweeted saturday saying, quote, if all the votes are added up in pennsylvania trump is going to lose. the ballots coming in after last night are expected to be segregated in case they are contested. it could be a long few days. >> thank you very much. 5:15 in the east, donald trump and joe biden made clear their messages addressing supporters as results were coming in, key swing states still not counted. change we believe we are on track to win this election. it is not my donald trump's place to declare who has won this election, that is the decision of the american people. >> we will win this and as far as i'm concerned we already have. we will be going to the supreme court. we want all voting to stop. we don't want them to find any ballots at 4:00 in the morning. >> those were the candidates. is reaction, we knew at least one state, we have

biden? bobmark sesock, dan gruelle and charles pierce split their votes for different reasons. >> charles pierce: i think president trump's done a great job on trade. replacing nafta with the u.s.m.c.a. was a very, very big thing for america. he's used his business acumen and negotiating ability to bring a lot of jobs back to america. >> pelley: mark, you're supporting former vice president biden. >> mark sesock: the one issue that president trump can't get from behind is the response to the coronavirus within this country. we have the best health care available to our citizens, and i really believe that the leadership of this country failed our citizens in protecting the people. >> dan gruelle: my number-one issue that i completely support donald trump on is his pro-life stance. there's, to me-- that is the most important issue in my life. >> pelley: bob, what are the most important issues to you in supporting former vice president biden? >> schrock: you know, workers' rights, workers' protecti

bob today. >>> president-elect joe biden making history with his cabinet picks, his expected choice for treasury secretary, if confirmed janet yellen would be the first woman ever in that role. >>> also, the first woman nominated for director of national intelligence. at homeland security the first latino nominated and news for his secretary of state. the breaking headline late today, a michigan board voting to certify joe biden's win in that key state. the president and his allies losing roughly 30 legal challenges and the growing list of republicans saying the election is over. >>> the airline tonight revealing it will soon require a coronavirus vaccine to fly. the general motors recall tonight affecting millions of vehicles and news from gm tonight on climate efforts. the urgent search for a missing boat off the east coast, the coast guard finding an empty life raft. and for the first time since the death of alex trebek, the announcement late today from "jeopardy" on the first guest host. >>> good evening, great to start another week with you at home. we begin just a few days until thanksgivi

georgia certified yesterday after the hand recount awarding the electoral college votes to bob woodwa joe biden narrowing in on michigan which will certify in the coming days. he tried to cozy up to two leading republican state legislators from michigan. that seemed to back fire. after meeting with trump yesterday, the michigan legislators see no reason to overturn biden's projected win. the president-elect received support in the state from urban areas like detroit's wayne county. unsurprisingly, throws the same places where trump's legal team is refuting the results. rudy giuliani said this week, quote, it changes the result of the election in michigan if you take out wayne county. of course it does. wayne county is the most populous in the state. heavily democratic. it happens to be a lot of black voters who broke heavily for biden. it is clear what they are trying to say with the fight. it is too loud to be called a dog whistle. i'm joined by the michigan lieutenant governor. the wayne county native. and roland martin. good morning to both of you, gentlemen. good to see you. lieutenant gove

well it's very interesting nic the day before the election joe biden's chief legal adviser bob barr he's a former counsel in the obama white house he was saying that yes a expecting a trying to cause all sorts of problems post election while the vote is being counted however you also pointed out that this is been known for months it's not as the biden campaign has not been aware that these actions are going to happen and he said in a way it's rather foolish to publicize very clearly weeks if not months before exactly what you're going to do when the results starts coming in now bob barr had set out what is called a boiler room within the trump biden campaign which is being in position for a number of weeks and these are lawyers who were primed to go because they knew that this was going to happen and immediately all these legal action starts lawyers are being dispatched from the biden campaign to each of these areas where these cases are being brought many of these lawyers are describing a lot of these cases as basically trumped up no plan intended very few of them having any real basis

playing out on the other side, they want biden to be above the fray but also speak directly to president trump and what we heard from him last night. and then bob barr and the other lawyers involved in the biden campaign get ready to go, as they say, ready within the hour to challenge any effort by the trump team to challenge outcomes across the state still with votes coming in. >> mike memoli, can you play the role of mood ring? what was the sort of process? i was stunned by just how clear-eyed the biden campaign was and how similar their view of the race was, really, all the way back to sunday morning to the trump campaign. they saw biden's clearest path as you said, three states, i started talking about the three states while everyone was hanging on every zip code in florida, i said this is not their plan. their plan was always wisconsin, michigan, p.a. and they're really optimistic about arizona. can you talk about everything that sort of swirled around them as the night seemed to break some democratic hearts but really didn't seem to knock this campaign off their game? >> obviously in the final weeks of a campaign, it's obviously hard to s

republicans including senator tom cotton from arkansas took issue with biden's picks saying in a tweet quote as former secretary of defense bobsaid joe biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past 4 decades meantime, high-profile democrats praised biden's choices. house speaker nancy pelosi said they bring quote a legacy of unmatched diplomatic achievements to the critical mission of keeping the american people safe. >>to you now is joe khalil reporting for us tonight doctor bell said he surprised presidentelect biden has not announced any republicans yet for cabinet positions, president elect joe biden has chosen former federal reserve chair janet yellen to serve as treasury secretary who widely admired in the financial world would be the first woman to lead the treasury department. >>the 74 year-old was also the first woman to serve as fed chair and before leave a leading the fed. she was its vice chair for 4 years and before that president of the federal reserve bank of san francisco for 6 years california senator dianne feinstein says she will step down from her role

biden on his win. interestingly, though, bob, you did not hear the chinese president personally congratulate biden yet. that's one other shoe to drop that hasn't yet happened. but i think this also gives you a sense of how discombobulating this is for global affairs, to have an american presidency in its final weeks here behaving in a way that's so unrecognizable. from the chinese perspective, to be perfectly blunt, you know, they have actually benefited in a lot of ways from the disorder at the top of the trump presidency. if you look at global polls, you find that for the first time in a pew survey recently that donald trump, the american president, had lower favorability than president ping of china or vladimir putin of russia. so in a way china is a little sorry to see trump leave the stage. it's been for them as they put it in chinese a period of strategic opportunity. and that window is now closing. robert: ashley, i want to come back to your point about president trump's advisors playing along and dig a little deep noor this white house beat. you wrote the president has no clear end game to actu

legal avenue they can so what happened with the biting campaign is that the top legal man with joe biden bob bauer he's a former counsel in the obama white house he set up what it's called 'd a boiler room it's a collection of lawyers who got together based in various parts of the country they've been preparing for exactly this and they are being deployed to counter all of the arguments being presented by the campaign by the various republican committees in various states and various counties now up until this point very few of these actions have produced any tangible results in fact in quite a few cases the courts have dismissed them or the judge has dismissed what have been described at times as frivolous actions the biden of the lawyers themselves say that many of these actions are completely bass is baseless that the trumpet ministration the trump campaign is basically writhing around attempting to forestall the inevitable but joe biden himself has stayed clear of these legal matters he has made absolutely clear that he is intent on following the constitution and all these are asking he

success here, one person said to me in reference to the general counsel, the legal counsel for joe biden, bob bauer, saying -- he said that it was all theatrics and noise. this white house official said it's not wrong to say it's all theater. chuck. >> speaking of which, is there any -- is there a functional west wing right now? and i ask that because we have this raging pandemic literally hitting the worst days we've had yet. i believe there hasn't been a coronavirus task force meeting since mid-october. certainly not one that either pence or trump has participated in. but it looks like -- are they just pretending that the only thing they should focus on is trying to overturn the election? they're not worried about governing? >> well, we should say there's been nothing on the president's public schedule beyond this trip to arlington national cemetery earlier today since the election for the president other than those remarks we saw last week. as for the coronavirus task force, i could update and say that mike pence did hold a task force meeting on monday which was the first one in almost thr

>>it's an open attempt to intimidate election is absolutely appalled bob our legal advisor to the biden campaign says the president wants michigan state leaders took north pole result, instead give him the state's electoral votes. it's also the fact goal on assault on the democracy at all should berman a law professor at george washington university says while the maneuver may be legal if the longshot federal law. >>allows for let's just lay teachers of the state to create the rules under which an election will proceed. but it does not clearly give the legislature's the ability. to overturn the will of the electorate still republican senator pat roberts says if there's credible fraud in the idea should be ruled out. >>let it play out in either michigan republican leaders visiting the president were available for comment but have signal there does interest in challenging the election result in washington raquel martin. >>a developing story that we're watching tonight, president donald trump's son don junior has tested positive for covid-19 his spokesperson says he has now been isolating

something joe biden needs to read. bobed in the obama-biden administration has been wrong about nearly every major foreign policy and national security decision over the last 48 years. should he become president i wish he would change that record but it doesn't sound is unlike is he going to. i remember when barack obama made fun of mitt romney for saying that russia was our chief threat. and i'm worried that joe biden is willing to give away the store to beijing for some alewisry fantastic climate change agreement when china the world's largest polluter doesn't change their ways while the united states has had declines emissions does agree. have our jobs outsourced or religious minorities and democratic activists in china and hong kong and tijuana who don't want to be under the thumb of communist oppression or is unlike a kowtow to beijing and international organizations to get more so-called prestige or credibility when in reality it just is naive and gullibility. >> martha: you make many good points one of which we have

. >> laura: bob costa -- he admitted biden's national security team essentially means the return to what didn't work the first time. watch. >> it's a return to the democratic foreign policy. secretary of state, it should be confirmed by the u.s. senate. this would be a administration that's much more of an interventionist and an establishment that we have seen in the trump years. >> laura: is that what american voters were clamoring for in the selection? >> no. but we want things that work. here's the fascinating part of president trump's foreign policy. he brought in a team of outsiders and he thinks like an outsider. outsiders happen to get most things right. we are about to return to a group of insiders who on their watch got most things wrong. and to be specific, this is the group that created a red outline in syria and failed to enforce it. this is a group who wasn't able to destroy isis. an explosion in the middle east, i brought about peace agreements in the middle east. this is a group also who couldn't even get nato to spend more on defense unlike president trump, but they were

after 3 of his fellow, ucsf doctors were chosen to be a part of president elect joe biden's coronavirus tadkforce doctor bob wachter shared his thoughts monday saying each member provides very different perspectives to the pandemic and this task force is really set up with a broad group of people very diverse in every dimension, including patient advocates policy experts act practicing clinicians epidemiologist for allah just doctor david kessler has been named one of 3 co-chairs on the task force he served as pcommissioner of the fda under presidents george h w bush and bill clinton doctor wachter says cassler knows how to make the washington machine move any move the ball way down the field in terms of in terms of nutrition in terms drug use these dog good he gets things done he understands how the federal government works understands research and i think he'll do a terrific job at this doctor eric goosby also brings previous washington dc experience he worked with the obama administration to implement the emergency plan for aids relief yeah, eric is a legend is an expert in global health. he's an expert

one of joe biden's leading lawyers, bob bauer says the trump campaign has now lost 28 lawsuits. in the past 17 days, leading to their latest change in tactics, but he also says they have no chance of overturning the result in michigan. no state legislature in our country's history ever has done with donald trump is apparently agitating for the michigan state legislature to do which is to ignore the results of the popular vote election and wrest control from the voters or attempt to wrest control from the voters. and appoint their own slate of electors to send to washington. now, the reason is never happened before, is that it cannot be done. and the constitution does not permit a state legislature to do would donald trump wants the disk of state legislature to do all our white house correspondent kimberly halkett is following all developments and joins us from washington. d.c. as so kimberly, than this meeting between republican party leaders from michigan at the white house is very important, isn't it? indeed in fact the white house press secretary kelly makin a saying that in

that's the kind of introspection my party needs to do with bob dole -- i'm sorry -- joe biden as presidentced. with are convinced bob dole will win the 1996 nomination. >> i heard that. >> let's tick through the losses for the democrats. the state legislatures. i mean, the consequences of democrats not doing better in state legislative races is going to be felt for the next decade with redistricting. the senate, there were so many senate races that democrats were supposed to win. they came up short time and time again. the house races, those were shocking as well. and, again, democrats were running against a republican president who made one unforced error after another. even republicans were talking about what a terrible campaign donald trump ran, and yet they weren't able to bring it over the finish line. what i heard from my friends, almost all of my friends and my family members who were voting for donald trump, it wasn't a vote about donald trump, and it wasn't really a vote about hating the democratic party. it was a vote about being scared of the democratic party, and despite all th

now what you did hear with bob redell's report is that one of president-elect biden's advisers is recommending we go back into shutdown. obviously that would hit the economy hard but coronavirus really running away from us. nbc's numbers show 930 people died yesterday and that was a good day. 1327 on thursday. in fact, adding it all up, it's 10,872 americans that have died since election day, marcus. that expert said we are headed toward coronavirus hell in the winter. it's hard to imagine we're not there now. >> just when you hear those numbers, it's shocking, you know, but we have to do what we can right now to keep ourselves safe. thank you, scott. >>> happening now, two different food giveaways are under way in san francisco, salvation army handing out food and masks at their harvest light center. giving out food, disaster-ready guides as well as emergency go bags. that's happening in glide parking lot. and we can all do what we can right now as well. we're kicking off our annual food drive with safeway. next time you're at safeway, try to donate $10 to make a difference right here in our

after 3 of his fellow, ucsf doctors were chosen to be a part of president elect joe biden's coronavirus taskforce doctor bob wachter shared his thoughts monday saying each member provides very different perspectives to the pandemic and this task force is really set up with a broad group of people very diverse in every dimension, including patient advocates policy experts act practicing clinicians epidemiologist for allah just doctor david kessler has been named one of 3 co-chairs on the task force he served as commissioner of the fda under presidents george h w bush and bill clinton doctor wachter says cassler knows how to make the washington machine move any move the ball way down the field in terms of in terms of nutrition in terms drug use his dog good, he gets things done he understands how the federal government works understands research and i think he'll do a terrific job at this doctor eric goosby also brings previous washington dc experience he worked with the obama administration to implement the emergency plan for aids relief yeah erica is a legend is an expert in global health. he's an expert al

any ticket in american history for biden and harris, and they're anticipang court challenges from the turkey, whic -- from tp campaign, which they say have no basis. bobower, legal advisor to the biden campaign,ay they have won the votes and that they are prepared to defend those votes in the courts when challenged by the trump campaign. bob bower says if trump goes to the supreme court, mr. trump will be embarrassed. >> woodruff: strong from the biden camp. john yang, yamiche alcindor. dan bush has been watching the returns in pennsylvania since well before yesterday. dan, we just heard yamiche talk about the wait for votes in pennsylvaniao how is the pss going? what is known about the votes that have still t been counted? >> reporter: judy, you can see behind me there is hghtened police presence and protests here in pennsylvania as the state continues to count its mail-in and absentee ballots. the state received upwards of 3 million of those balls and has counted roughly 1.7 million but there are still a lot to go and it's important to stress these bloc being counted right now, th're not fraudulent as the president has claimed, they're not also comi

bob supports joe biden. good morning. me -- thanketting you for letting me call in.thers me the most is they anddemocrats are communists socialists. a socialist is

bob bauer from the biden campaign you who just showed may be right. but even if they don't succeed there is a consequence to this. the consequence of course being to sow suspicion and muddy the waters for an election defeat, to give first of all voters a reason why he was defeated, which is to say it was a rigged election, he was cheated. and also with the consequence of undercutting i think public faith in the democratic system that has been the bedrock of this country now for more than two centuries. >> you know, jeremy, if i hold my breath until my brain's deprived of oxygen and try to see the world donald trump does, you can see his exasperation. right? so he stacked the supreme court. he's been telling his voters for months that the election if he loses is rigged. if he wins, it's hunky-dory but if he loses it's been rigged. and now he finds himself really seeing this race, it would appear the same way the biden campaign does. as being a near impossible or extremely difficult path to 270 if you play fair and square. it strikes me -- and i'm think

after 3 of his fellow, ucsf doctors were chosen to be a part of president elect joe biden's coronavirus task force doctor bob wachter shared his thoughts monday saying each member provides very different perspectives to the pandemic and this task force is really set up with a broad group of people very diverse group in every dimension, including patient advocates to policy experts act practicing clinicians epidemiologist far allergist doctor david kessler has been named one of 3 co-chairs on the task force he served as commissioner of the fda under presidents george h w bush and bill clinton doctor wachter says cassler knows how to make the washington machine move in he moved the ball way down the field in terms of in terms of nutrition in terms drug use his dog did he gets things done he understands how the federal government works understands research and i think will do a terrific job of this doctor eric goosby also brings previous washington dc experience he worked with the obama administration to implement the emergency plan for aids relief yeah, rick is a legend is an expert in global health. he's an e

around or if they weren't sure they were going to vote for biden and amazing effort and i'm proud of our olunteers. >> sometimes people describe, bob, the swing voter as the moderate voter or independent voter or republican voter that we want to turn and vote emocrat. >> part of the reason they voted for him they and the progressive movement has worked with the biden-harris campaign and put forward the most progressive platform of any recent democratic campaign and true on immigration and climate and health care. d so it is very much about >> he is going to put progressives in the cabinet. >> i have a lot of faith that he will but let me just say that we are going to have to fight to keep the floor that we established. and all the way down through. and they say that say. let's say he comes in the white house. he is a man of tremendous inciple and compassion >> it showed us where we are as a country and bring about justice and combine that with the reckoning that america is having with our legacy of white supremacy and anticipate-blackness and this is moment where joe biden. >> government response on critical issues that are essenti

here is the biden campaign advisor bob. >> the lawsuits are meritless.size for their purposes, these lawsuits don't have to have merit. if that's not the purpose of the bona fide claims of the court. to create the opportunity for them to message falsely about what's taking place in the electoral process. >> here now, attorney barry richard who represented george w. bush during the election litigation in florida in 2,000. if they for being here. i remember 20 years ago being in tallahassee interviewing many times he essentially managed about 27 different cases throughout florida. you argued a lot of them in person. your thoughts on where the rnc is ready to do here in the battle had? >> i think it's different from what we witnessed in 2,000 and everybody acknowledged the problem. there were defective ballots in the question was how they had to make sure people's votes counted. that's what the litigation was over. the litigation was over the counting of the ballots. it was not anybody making allegations that had the questionable basis. that's much differen

a supporter of joe biden. bob. hello. ller: besides the fact that i support biden, the thing that the callersfrankly, that are calling in that are just demonstrating an appalling misunderstanding about how elections operate -- how ballots are cast, how observers are -- thator not allowed is probably the thing that concerns me the most. there seems to be this very abject misunderstanding, perhaps how elections actually,nd, in fact, what people's civic duties are. that is the only comment i wanted to make. a number of your callers -- i could go through a litany of them -- that is not important. i have no ax to grind with any of them, but the fact of the matter is they just plainly are beennformed and/or have subject to disinformation. that is really all i have to say. thank you a lot. host: that is bob in ohio. ryan in hawaii. a supporter of president trump. caller: yes. i just want to give my shout out to trump and my support to him being president for four years. he has been doing some good things and supporting a lot of t

biden central message containing covid-19. >>bob let your president we're going to do. a covid under control one of my presidency, i'll put it action well have been talking about for months, i'm asking socially distant tested to trace. with a full and fair free distribution. addiction vaccine when we get one a match. imagine where we'd be and this president just wore a mask cut from the big game. >>while biden leads in most polls. the race is extremely tight in several swing states that will likely determine the outcome of the election you have the >>with your vote. to save the american dream to save our country from what could happen to you look at venezuela, you look at so many of the countries the president is already laying the case to challenge the election beyond november, 3rd team trump closing message ballots shouldn't be counted past election night. >>i think it's a terrible thing when ballots could be collected after election. it was a terrible decision for a country made by the supreme court. i don't know if that's going to change because we're gonna go in th

the legal front, is is whe we heard sharp wordand pushback from the biden team today. bobr speaking for them, their attorney, said no stat legislature in the country's history has done what president trump seems to be stking the michigae legislators to do, which ise overturn t certified results that were expected to be certified monday of a popular election. the biden campaign ising this is not legal and it doesn't have any historical precedent. they say they're not concerned tiout the el being overturned nor have they ever been, and they also sy it's dangerous. they point out one other thing. they say the trumpcampaign has shown a discriminatory pattern, that they're partiglarly go after challenges in african-american areas, cities that they think shows a very serious bias problem and say they will continueo raise it in court to every trump filing. >> woodruff: these are heavily democratic cities. lisa desjardins, yamiche alcindor reporting on today'sar extraordevents. thank you both. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: and we continue ou'slook at the preside actions >> woodr

and biden campaign attorney bob bower warns that what donald trump is agitating for michigan to do is that the constitutional right to vote and due process. and as trump's defeat is

joe biden has been the apparent for two weeks now, but the law is vague and there's no written specifics in the law to when it has to happen, or the cooperation has to happen. bob bower, who is a senior biden advicer, a respected attorney said the american people should be deeply concerned about what the president is trying to do and they should be actively mindful of the fact it will not work, nearly so far every trump campaign and gop legal challenge has been withdrawn or failed, chuck. >> right. very quickly, jeff, we know that the president-elect teased he's got a treasury secretary in mind and it will please all parts of the democratic party. i saw one report that says that must mean it's janet yellen the former fed chair, and maybe that sits a sarah raskin who was the deputy secretary in the obama/biden years, and those are the two that come to mind that would, quote, please all wings of the party. what are you hearing? >> i can throw two more names out there, roger ferguson, the retiring coe of a bank of overseas retirement funds for teachers and people that run non-profits and that sort of thing, and the only democrat on the washington federal reserve b

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biden from being certified. they will not stop him from being the successful candidate here who takes the oath of office on january 20, 2021. >> bober, appreciate your time. thank you. >> pleasure. thank you. >> there is breaking news on the biden cabinet. cnn learned ron klain has been offered chief of staff position. has accepted. formal announcement is expected tomorrow. klain previously served the president-elect in a variety of capacities, including chief of staff in the early days of his vice-presidency. just ahead, "new york times" maggie haberman's going to join us to discuss what, if any, strategy or cohesive strategy is guiding the president right now. (♪ ) keeping your oysters growing while keeping your business growing has you swamped. (♪ ) you need to hire i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base so you can start hiring right away. claim your seventy-five-dollar credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo ♪ oh, oh, (announcer)®! ♪ once-weekly ozempic® is helping many people with type 2 diabetes like emily lower the