so is his boss, brian kemp. and just take a minute to consider how little regard the president has for governor kemp's duty to the people in his state. it, pretty much, boils down to i did something for him. now, he owes me. a quid pro quo, you might say. here is the tweet. why won't governor brian kemp, the hapless governor of georgia, use his emergency powers which can be easily done to overrule his obstinate secretary of state and do a match of signatures on envelopes. it will be a goldmine of fraud and we will easily win the state. keep in mind, asking governor kemp to do something he does not have the authority to do. oh, and another thing. there is no evidence of widespread fraud. none. a lifelong republican, the president hired him and then fired him for saying things like this about the election. >> and just look at what happened in georgia. georgia has machines that tabulate the vote. they, then, held a hand recount. and the outcome was consistent with the machine vote. >> and that tells you what? >> th

do you expect republican governor brian kemp to be at the rally? what is the latest with president trump, given the president trump has started to attack him a little bit? guest: that's an open question on whether or not the governor will go to this rally. my hunch is no, not just because of that relationship but unfortunately yesterday, there was a tragedy involving a young staffer, who is very close to the governor, who died in a traffic accident. cast a pall on events over the weekend. even before this, it was in doubt on whether the governor would show up, because the president has continued to attack him for not playing a more forceful role and essentially blocking the certification of georgia's vote. he has called on the governor to use emergency powers to do so, but state law does not allow for him to do it and use emergency powers. there is a provision in state law. the governor said, simply, i'm following state law by taking the steps he is taking. the president has also said he was ashamed to have endorsed brian kemp two years ago. it is

about it a couple hours ago, aiming at georgia's governor, brian kemp saying, quote, you allowed your state to be scammed. we must check signatures and count signed envelopes against

her and we're seeing even today, the president continuing to attack georgia's republican governor brian kemp taking to twitter and once again suggesting that kemp and the georgia secretary of state aren't republicans, putting that in quotation marks, as you can see now on your screen, and so the question is, does the president continue these attacks this evening? that is the concern and that's what sources have been telling me has republicans on edge as the president arrives in georgia this evening. if he spends the hour and a half of his rally attacking the republican governor, the republican secretary of state, that will not be helpful to the cause. that being said, there is some hope and certainly an expectation by kelly and david purdue who asked the president, i'm told, to actually come and campaign in their state, hopefully the president can encourage the base to come and turn out in this special election on january 5th but certainly not hearing the same message from the president that you heard from the vice president in georgia last night. listen. >> i'm here on the president's behal

today trump had this suggestion for georgia's governor writing, quote, brian kemp should resign from office. he is an obstructionist who refuses to admit that we won georgia big. a few hours after that kemp

he gave brian kemp and the georgia secretary of state every chance to get it right. they refused.

we want to go back to our jim acosta who has new reporting on the president on brian kemp.nd of message can we expect from the president and now the governor? >> reporter: yeah, i just talked to a white house adviser about this. this adviser says the people around the president "panicked" about what may happen with these run-offs. why the president started this and he has surrogates like cindy powell and the white house trying to distance themselves from those individuals. simply raising these questions, casting all sorts of aspersions of the vote in georgia and sending a message it is not worth for you to come out and vote in these run-offs because your votes may not count. with the white house advisers and others i have spoken on this and at capitol hill is that the unintended consequences of all of that is you can have a depressed base turn out. run-offs a lot of time boils down to turnouts. they win those two seats along with vice president kamala harris, they have the majority in the senate. i was talking to the white house's adviser a short while ago, the president is

he also attacked georgia's republican governor brian kemp. earlier on saturday, trump called kemp to urge him to call the republican-led state legislature back into session so it could appoint trump-supporting electors essentially to overturn the election. kemp refused to do so. we'll have more on georgia after headlines for the rest of the broadcast. joe biden's team will start receiving intelligence briefings from the pentagon starting today as the presidential transition gets further underway. biden is also set to meet for the first time with the white house chief vaccine adviser moncef slaoui this week. meanwhile, biden has tapped california attorney general javier becerra to lead the department of health and human services. becerra has filed at least 100 lawsuits against trump, including his immigration and environmental policies. he led the fight, alongside 20 other states and washington, d.c., to defend the affordable care act as it was being attacked by trump and the republican party. he has also voiced support for medicare for all in

president trump sharply critical of the republican governor of georgia, brian kemp, tweeting earlier today: why won't governor brian kemp, the hapless governor of georgia, use his emergency powers which can be easily done to overrule his obstinate secretary of state and do a match of suggests on envelopes? it will be a gold mine of fraud, and we will easily win the state. the president, of course, coming to georgia this saturday to campaign for the two republican senate runoff candidates. lou, back to you. lou: steve, thank you very much. we should point out governor brian kemp was in a very similar situation just three years ago when he was secretary of state and a machine that was central to a lawsuit by election reform activist was suddenly raced as soon as that lawsuit was filed against the state of georgia and its handling of the election. nothing was ever done. but the pattern seems to be ingrained in georgia's state government because as the federal court judge, timothy barron, issued his injunction against the state of georgia to prevent the machines being wiped or in any way

right now trump is going after the republican governors of georgia, brian kemp, and arizona, doug duceyafter both states certified their election results as wins for joe biden. reporters actually heard governor ducey ignore what appeared to be a phone call from the white house yesterday as just as he was certifying, the state's results, the president says he's ashamed he endorsed kemp and is warning that, quote, republicans will long remember what ducey has done. to be clear, these governors are simply doing their jobs. sort of fulfilling constitutional obligations. trump has also repeatedly attacked georgia's republican secretary of state. basically going after everyone who will not indulge or entertain his attempts to thwart the u.s. constitution and overturn this election. and many republicans are indulging in his attempts, their embrace of trump has put them in a position they cannot survive without him and his base. and the dilemma facing the gop is that president trump is signaling he, in losing, still wants to lead the party even after he leaves the white house. and he may do it

>> the president is frustrated of brian kemp. he believes he made his career by endorsing him and kemp betrayed him. he wants him to take a force full action. he called kemp and upgraded him about not helping him more in georgia. he's unhappy with doucey in arizona. the president thought he's going to win these states. as a result came in on election night, he was watching the results and he believed he's going to win and more and more battle came in. his team has not been able to survive, compelling evidence of fraud and any of these cases, they lost case after case and state after state. they're making a lot of arguments on fox news and other channels but when they are actually in front of a judge and being asked to provide evidence, they have not been able to do it. one of the hithings we have reported that rudy giuliani, if you have evidence of these things, let us know. we'll help you make these arguments and they have not been able to provide it. >> it is amazing when they're giving different stories under oath. >> they indu

why is trump calling georgia governor brian kemp names you'd be angry if your children used to pick on each other? well, because governor kemp refuses to go along with what trump is saying. >> look at what's happening in georgia. a lot of things are being found in georgia. to be honest with you because it's massive fraud. we are looking at things that are so bad in georgia. >> okay. again, the facts there, there wasn't anything so bad in georgia, no massive fraud there or in any other state. every ballot in georgia has a paper trail, every single one, and the state has counted the votes now three times. three times with the same outcome. but trump's lies, and i use that word very fairly because he knows that these are all lies. they come as vice president mike pence went to georgia today ahead of trump's visit tomorrow. pence is throwing around words like illegal an leaving the door open to trump winning. >> we're going to keep winning until every legal vote is counted. we're going to keep fighting until every illegal vote is thrown out. and we will never stop fighting to make america

i know you're not a fan of brian kemp.you give him credit for standing up for basic rule of law and election results given all of the pressure he's been facing from president trump? >> you shouldn't have to get credit for doing your job. and brad raffensperger and brian kemp are doing the jobs they were elected to do and they're following the laws of the land. what we want to pay attention to is what happens next. republican -- georgia republican senators have said that they intend to restrain and repeal so many of the pieces of voter suppression and mitigation that we've been able to achieve. they want to make it harder to vote by absentee ballot, make it harder for people to access the right to vote. i'm going to judge brian kemp and brad raffensperger by what they do in january. do they stand up not only for the rule of law but for the 5 million voters who made their voices heard in the general election or do they allow themselves to be pulled back into that maelstrom that says the only way to win is to silence the voic

brian kemp, the governor of georgia, was endorsed by donald trump during the primary.s the underdog during the republican primary. so there is long history there. we, of course, have a republican-elected secretary of state. and to watch republican officials have to push back against the president is something that we've not seen before. but, welcome to 2020. there are all sorts of things we've not seen before, including a president of the united states who refuses to acknowledge that he's lost. so, it's my hope, again, that across this state, including those republicans who voted for joe biden and kamala harris. those independents, who voted for joe biden and kamala harris. that, they will remember the chaos of this time, and that they will go and vote for raphael warnock and jon ossoff. >> former president obama was part of a virtual rally, today. and i want to play part of what he said. >> you are, now, once again, the center of our civic universe. because the special election in georgia is going to determine, ultimately, the course of the biden presidency. >> do --

the governor of georgia, brian kemp, will join me right here later in the show but let's begin tonight with republican congresswoman from new york, she is in georgia tonight as a surrogate for the purdue campaigns. great to have you with us. so one of the key attorneys in a number of these election disputes and says this in a tweet. he says republicans try to disenfranchise over 300,000 georgia voters, this victory being judged throwing this out saying it means 4,000 voters in two counties are protected, will continue to monitor how other georgia counties respond to this expressiosuppression scheme. when i read about this, these were people who had signed off on change of address notification forms to the united states postal service, so they were taken off the roles and yet this judge says that was wrong and democrats are calling this an effort in g.o.p. voter suppression. what do you say? >> this is to ensure only legal voters cast their votes. mark elias is a far left radicals attorney who was one of the perpetrators of the russia hoax. he works for every far left socialist candidat

they report brian kemp was pressured into overturning biden's victory. what more are you hearing? >> reporter: alicia, it's a pretty complicated situation. donald trump is delving once again into this trying to just bring this whole recount, re-election thing back up. he's not letting it go. he does not want to accept and acknowledge that joe biden will be the next president of the united states. what he's doing is pointing fingers at the republican george governor, at the republican secretary of state, basically trying to say you're not doing enough for me and not standing up for me and you're getting in my way. so he's called brian kemp, like you just said, asking him to call a special legislature in to do a recounted. he's been tweeting all day about signature matching, doing a lot of these things basically to try to invalidate the results of the election in georgia and in the country. the problem is that it's putting republicans in the state and particularly these two senate candidates in a really tricky position. they can't counter president trump. they need his support. they

"the washington post" is reporting that president trump called georgia's republican governor brian kemp this morning to pressure him for help in overturning biden's win in the state. the report's saying, quote, this, trump pressed kemp to call a special session of the state legislature to get lawmakers to override the results and appoint electors that would back him according to a person familiar with the conversation. he also asked the governor to demand an audit of signatures on mail ballots. something kemp has previously noted he has no power to do. kemp then declined the overture from trump, according to the person. joining me with more details is nbc's josh lederman who's been standing by for us and following the story. he's outside the white house. josh, thanks for joining us on this, really appreciate it. not surprising but nonetheless the phone call, unbelievable. talk us through what you know so far. >> yeah, not surprising as you point out, yasmin, because president trump has essentially been calling for this out in the open in public for weeks. pressuring governor brian kemp

back in washington tonight -- our town hall last night made a lot of waves after georgia governor brian kempalled for a signature audit in theht electin in order verify mail and ballot signatures, we have an important update tonight. across the country inn nevada, the trump team got their first day in court after audits there revealed thousands of tainted ballots. matt schlapp the man who spearheaded the effort is here with the very latest. raymond arroyo brings us the curious case of biden's broken foot, that more in friday wifollies. but first -- never normal again? that's the focus of tonight's angle. this time of year is usually filled with christmas parties, bustling restaurants, trips to visit loved ones, it happens all over the country but of course because of covid for most of us, nothing seems the same. more americans are on edge, some are legitimately terrified of getting the virus, others want to end lockdowns and all these rules they believe are arbitrary and destructive. even conversations between friends and between colleaguesse can get heated as it did on cnbc this morning bet

trump called georgia governor brian kemp this morning trying to overturn biden's victory. what more are you hearing? >> alicia, it's a complicated situation. donald trump is delving into this once again trying to bring this recount/re-election thing come back up. and what he is doing is pointing fingers at the republican, georgia governor. at the republican secretary of state. basically, trying to say, you know, you're not doing enough for me. you're not standing up for me, you're getting in my way. and so, he's called brian kemp, like you just said, asking him to call a special legislature in to try to do another kind of recount. he's been tweeting all day about signature matching. doing all of these things, basically, trying to invalidate the results of the election in georgia and in the country. the problem is that it's putting republicans in the state and, particularly, these two senate candidates, in a really tricky position. they can't counter president trump. they need his support. they need support from his voters and from his base. but, at the same time, you know,

and anybody who thinks like brian kemp -- frankly brian kemp is a really conservative dude who frankly has a history of doing? pretty awful things when it comes to voter suppression. but even trump's temperature was too high for him. anybody who has any ounce of respect for democracy and the democratic process is just going to stay away from running for office on the republican ticket any longer, and all of a sudden you're just going to get more and more of, you know, these qanon followers. that's essentially how democracy falls apart, at least in some parts of the country. >> what relief and what about what happened in iran over the weekend? first, little smattering of talking about a leaf, mitch mcconnell disingenuously whining about it. it seems to me, tell me if i'm wrong, you need mnuchin, mcconnell and pelosi all in the same place or on the same zoom call. anything short of that's not going to make it work. you need all three points of the triangle. >> 100%. and thus far mitch mcconnell has refused to step into that negotiating room. he is the leader of the senate. ultimately he

and president trump asked brian kemp for this, it does appear that kemp is in any move to move forward in that respect. it seems clear that the results is going to stand after three different recounts showing that joe biden won the election. republicans focusing the president to be facing off on this run-off, loeffler and warnock. they need to show up on january 5th and cast a ballot in favor of those two candidates. republicans need to win one of those seats to redeem the majority in the united states senate. but, there is real worry tonight for republicans that even if the president does specifically send that message is going to be coupled with his ongoing grievances of the process here and as the crowd here in georgia is going to eat it up. already tonight, kelly loeffler started talking about the election. she asked the crowd here to vote early and asking for absentee ballot. they responded by using chant "stop the steal" which the president used the chant over and over as that can backup this claim of november. the question is which version of president trump will we see here ton

senate. >> president trump criticized your governor, governor brian coup kemp. governor kemp appointed you to the senate. you criticized the election process as well. can you tell us where your loyalty lies as you vie to represent the state of georgia? is it with governor kemp or president trump? >> lisa, my loyalties are with georgia. i had a calling to public service to serve the people of georgia. i have lived the american dream. i want to make sure every georgian can do that. >> what did you think? >> i think that's the definition of a dodge. obviously, that was a tough question for her. the voters that she needs to turn out are those trump voters. really, it's been these republican state leaders who have ended up being sort of the heroes in upholding democracy in this country. you saw governor kemp yesterday hold the line and say that he wasn't going to give in to the demands that president trump is making here. also said it wasn't in his authority to do some of the things that president trump is asking him to do. i think that will be another issue that peo

by a battle between republicans, by president trump fighting with georgia's republican governor, brian kemp. it began with tweets yesterday. president trump angry over what he calls rampant fraud in the georgia presidential vote in november. he said that kemp should resign. the president tweeted the following: >> now, governor kemp refused to engage in a fight with president trump. instead he responded the following. >> i mean, i supported the president. i worked as hard as anybody in the state on his re-election. i supported the legal process that him or any other campaign can go through in this state. at the end of the day, i also have to follow the laws and the constitution. >> as far as the senate run-off races go, 2.5 million people have voted early. they're sorting the early votes behind me. that early voting ends tomorrow. more than $800 million has been spent by the four candidates setting all kinds of records. the secretary of state of georgia has come down hard on what is called line warming. that's when small items, food, drink or a small gift are given to people in line to vote

i will easily and quickly win georgia if governor brian kemp or the secretary of state permit a simple signature verification. has not been done and will show large-scale discrepancies. why are these two republicans saying no? if we win georgia, everything else falls in place. let's take you to the president's rally now in valdosta, georgia, where cnn's ryan nobles is standing by. ryan, what more are you learning about this ask from the president? >> reporter: well, i can tell you one thing, ana, this is not what republicans want the focus of this rally to be here tonight. they were hoping that the president would come here with a clear and very specific message about republicans needing to get out and vote and support the two candidates running in the january 5th runoff. david perdue and kelly loeffler, the republican incumbents, they need to win at least one of those seats in order to maintain the majority in the united states senate so the fact that the president's focus, as he makes his way here to georgia, is the election that already occurred and the one that isn't about to happe

brian kemp has continued to balance lives and livelihoods in a responsible manner. of his efforts and glad to work with him every day and tackle these challenges we have in front of us. >> president-elect biden told me on thursday that on inauguration day he was going to ask the american people for 100 days of wearing a mask to bring down the spre spread. will you encourage people to follow it? >> i wear a mask, my family does. i think it's a great step in the right direction. mandating it maybe doesn't fit reality. but certainly i would encourage folks to wear their masks everywhere they go, especially when they're in crowds. we're watching infection rates climb based on a number of variables, the time of years, the cycle of a virus and we have a vaccine on the way. that's not a magic bullet day one. we have a process to go through and certainly want to be as responsible as we can so that folks can go to work and provide for their families and also be safe. >> thanks, again, for joining us today. always good to have you on the show. >> absolutely. thanks, jake. >>>

it's a process that brian kemp has repeatedly said he asked for. it's one of the things that's likely not going to happen. but it's just another way for donald trump to continue to sow division and to continue to cast doubt on this election, saying things like it's rigged, that there was massive voter fraud and providing absolutely no evidence to back that up whatsoever. but it's putting republicans in the state in a really tricky position, especially with the senate runoff races copping up. perdue and loeffler aren't really able to criticize the president, aren't able to call him out. but at the same time they need his base, they need his support, they need people to come out and vote for them despite the president is out here calling it a rigged system. it's mixed messaging at best. you can see even in the press file right now, the wifi for us to connect is literally rigged election. there is a consistency in the messaging coming out. it is a little tightrope the republicans are going to have to watch as they move forward into the next month. ali

. >> yeah, and to your point he called the republican governor brian kemp hapless tonight on twitter. that won't go over well with republican kemp supporters in the state. he's about to visit the state that as i said will control the senate according to what the voters there say. hey, kim, john mcneal writes in "the new york times," trump could have been the hero of this pandemic since we are very close to getting vaccines out in record breaking time. as you well know, kim, trump never saw an upside in exhorting the public fdr style saying we can do this if we do this together. we can get through this. and perhaps that's the direction he wants to go in his 50 remaining days in office. >> yes. it's clear now i think one reason that it is clear that scott atlas resigned was that there was nothing left for him to do. the president is no longer interested in a coronavirus response anymore than he has been in the past ten months. he thought that the coronavirus was something he could get rid of through political message and will it away. when in his hands the entire time was the ability to

republican governor brian kemp of georgia is under siege. under attack by president trump.ident. last night, the president tweeted about republican governor brian kemp. nobody can be this stupid. today, he said governor kemp was an obstructionist. he said camp refuses to admit that we won georgia big. he also called on governor kemp to resign. this press conference, it was clear that governor kemp does not want to engage in a fight with president trump. he stayed away from that, he said his job right now is to make sure everyone in georgia who has covid has a hospital bed and his job is to elect the two republican senators who are in a runoff battle next tuesday. he says that's with the people of georgia want to. far as the election here goes in georgia, that horse has left the barn. the constitution, that fight is over so you have a governor here being called stupid, an obstructionist, being called on to resign by the president, not engage in, saying he has followed the constitution, trying to do his job. republican on republican here in georgia. >> alicia: steve harrigan

the state and attacking georgia's top officials and republicans essentially bawling on governor brian kempoverturn the will of the voters. as america awaits for vaccines to roll out the president said he has worked harder the last three weeks than ever before but the work is to overturn the democratic election results. sadly. not to call on americans to wear masks or observe public health measures. if only the president went after the virus the way he is going after democracy. >>> we begin on the surging pandemic. i want to bring in the chief scientific adviser for one of the trump administration's legitimately success stories in this pandemic, operation warp speed to find a vaccine. dr. moncef slaoui, thank you for joining us. >> good morning. >> president-elect biden told me in an exclusive interview thursday he is going to ask americans to wear masks for his first 100 days in office. do you think that is a good idea or is it too little, too late? >> i think it's a good idea. it's never too late. this pandemic is ravaging the country. we all need to take our precaution and wash our hands

brian kemp here on "the ingraham angle."led governor candidate stacey abrams and raphael warnock have in common?ig they are affiliated with the new georgia project, the group that abrams founded in one previouslt shared. wise and important because the new georgia project is one of several groups now being investigated by the georgia secretary of state's office for allegedly seeking to register it in eligible and even done people to vote in the upcoming senate runoff. one instance of a woman received a package of postcards encouraging peoplele to vote. what's the problem? she lives in new york city over 900 miles from georgia. joining now is georgia congressman doug collins. a congressman, you've been listening in on the show tonight. it easy to see why so many georgians are wary about the integrity of the upcoming runoff. you heard governor kemp with some constructive proposals here.. how do you solve this? >> how we solve it is number one it's good to have you back in georgia and wish i could be t there with you, we have to

he took a lot of shots at governor brian kemp, the republican, former trump ally, who leads that state claiming that kemp was incompetent, that kemp hasn't done enough to pursue the president's false election claims. kemp was not at the rally because he was dealing with the death of a young family friend. perhaps highlighting the problem with the rhetoric, the president said that some people close to him have urged others not to votes in this upcoming special election. >> friends of mine say, let's not vote. we're not going to vote because we're angry. they're friends of mine. >> reporter: so that sort of hits the nail on the head of the inherent contra addition of what the president was trying to do -- convincing people that the election votes in georgia were fraudulent but also that they should trust the system enough to cast their ballots in january. purdue and loeffler were invited to speak at one point, but at some points they were drowned out by people chanting about the election results. that is why republicans are very concerned about the message the president continues to push

then they ought to tell you what we're telling brian kemp.gislature now. do not be fooled twice! this is georgia. we ain't dumb. we're not gonna go vote on january 5th in another machine made by china! you're not going to fool georgians again! i want you to go to the governor's mansion. i want you to circle it. i want you to blow your horns. until brian kemp comes out and orders a special session of the georgia legislature! get us our legislature and tell everybody we want our legislature to meet and we want them to fix the mess that he created! and then he can resign. and then as far as i'm concerned, lock him up! >> lock him up! [ crowd chanting ] >> ha! wow. these are republicans talking about two republican senators and a republican governor about elections that, again, there is -- there have been repeated attempts to discredit the presidential election outcome, but georgia's secretary of state, also a republican, reiterated yesterday, no fraud has been found. and he urged president trump to drop his unfounded claims. you also had electio

nothing adding they had their own observers, donald trump continuing twitter feud with governor brian kemp called out for not intervening in the election. the president tweeting people in georgia got caught in massive numbers of ballots and putting them in the voting machines, great job, brian kemp, he is responding. >> the president as i said many times as a fighter. we have had a few battles but nobody worked harder for donald trump before november 3rd and i continue to support his efforts in the campaigns any way that i legally could post the election and i continue to do that on one of those was supporting the legal process to play out. >> reporter: stay tuned a little later this morning between now and new and we expect the march for trump bus tour to arrive with hundreds of trump supporters. we will see what happens. tomorrow night the president holding a rally. >> things are heating up even more as we hear from whistleblowers, thank you. georgia is at the center of the political universe with the senate runoff a month away. fox news's greg get filled talks about what is at stake. >>

donald trump heavily criticized brian kemp calling him hapless, people in georgia got caught a cold bringing numbers of ballots. now calling for signature matchings. >> we are the redwall to stop socialism, pelosi, aoc and everybody else was i call early on for signature on it, he has not done that. i think it should be done. >> later today we expect the march for trump bus rally started in florida to be here in atlanta along with mike pence, a couple stops. senators perdue and leffler, tomorrow night in south georgia donald trump polling a rally. >> congressman doug collins in charge of the initial recounts talked about allegations of fraud with laura ingram. >> we are shining the light, the best disinfectant, the county election boards noted and when asked for a hand recount, 10,000 votes that were never counted, think about that, never counted, 3000 went to donald trump, lowered the lead biden had been on and heightened scrutiny will also give people the insurance they go and vote the elections will be held, things need to be said. we need to work on making sure this election, kelly leffl

governor brian kemp rejects mr.rump's demand to bypass voters and overturn biden's win in georgia. >>> plus, the state senate runoff heats up with one candidate debating next to an empty podium. >>> and cyndi lauper's new colors only on "cbs this morning." the singer reveals the lineup for her latest concert to help lgbtq kids who don't have a home. >> it's a good one, but first, here's today's "eye opener." it's your world in 90 seconds. >> i want to be very frank to the american people. the vaccine's critical. but it's not going to save us from this current surge. >> the sweeping new lockdown in california. >> doctors and nurses across the country are being pushed to the brink. >> we're not likely to see a peak in the number of infections in hospitalizations until probably at some point in the middle of january. as bad as things are right now, they're going to get a lot worse. >> rudy giuliani says he's getting great care and feeling good as he recovers from coronavirus in the hospital. >> president-elect joe bide

this comes after the president called brian kemp, the governor of georgia trying to put pressure there and michigan. so far none of it have seemed to work. >> is that the final response to the president? you said there were two calls. once he says i can't do anything, is there a need for another call? >> i thinew information as i understand. both times the speaker were not and we don't have any power than that. we can't change that. there is been a number of lawmakers who have agreed to sign onto the president's effort. but the speaker of the house as far as is not going along with it. it is not nearly enough to make a difference. >> has there been a response of the white house over the reporting? >> the white house did not comment on either one of the calls. the president says he's skipping a lot of christmas party and he's not doing briefings on his schedule and he's spending most of his days trying to stop voter fraud and trieying to stop the n inevitable to happen. >> if that's the hardest he ever worked then we are in trouble. >> i am republican and everyon states now and some oth

not to vote in the senate runoff next week and told a rally crowd that the republican governor brian kemp should be locked up. >> i want you to go to the governor's mansion, circle it, blow your horns, until brian kemp comes out and orders a special session of the georgia legislature. and then he can resign. and then as far as i'm concerned, lock him up. >> it's like some weird ryan murphy 2016 election thing all over. it's just bizarre. so let's just recap here. what he's doing. so he is advising georgians not to vote in the runoff election next week that will decide the balance of power in the senate. is he working for democrats? also telling them their republican governor should be locked up. maybe it is a jedi mind trick that he's working for the democrats, just saying maybe because he's telling republicans not to vote. all right. that's really shooting yourself in the foot. reloading and shooting yourself in the other foot, again. right? another georgia election official, lifelong republican, gabriel sterling, got death threats for standing up to the president's bogus fraud claims la

going on to tweet brian kemp should resign from office. is an obstructionist the refuses to admit that we won georgia big. for the controversy after a federal judge ordered two counties to restore 4000 voters to the roles after questions were raised about the accuracy of residential addresses. mark the lies, attorney for the democratic party tweeted in a blow to gop voter suppression federal court in joins georgia counties from removing 4000 voters registration lists. republicans noted that the judge, lisa abrams gardner is the sister of former democratic candidate for governor stacy abrams, what they say is another example of election corruption. >> how can your sister pretend to be a judge who is going to be neutral. this is one more example of why this year at the most corrupt elections of my lifetime and maybe in 100 years. >> the president returns to georgia on monday for a rally in which he is likely to both criticize the voting process in georgia as corrupt and encourage georgians to vote. bret: thanks. modest gains on the next to t

your governor, brian kemp, was so concerned that he put out this statement.erference in election. an election cannot be overwritten by executive order. it sounds like governor kemp's state is saying the president is trying to get governor kemp to interfere with the election. is that your take on it? >> it's an honor to go to work with governor kemp. we had the pandemic and hurricanes and he's been steadfast through it all. and secretary raffensperger, we served together in the house. his conservative track record in the house definitely is what led him to be able to serve as our secretary of state. both are working hard. i told you this before, just because the person we voted for didn't win the election doesn't change our job description. >> well, president donald trump doesn't see it that way. he thinks there's some sort of corruption maybe all of you are engaged in. here's what he said this weekend on tv. >> they had judges making deals and electoral officials making deals like this character in georgia, who is a disaster. and the governor's done nothing.

president trump attacked the governors even though brian kemp of georgia explained the law forbids him from interfering in elections and doug ducey of arizona defended his state's election against the president's attacks saying he, who, is following the law. if the president has a legitimate challenge now is the time. there was one particular moment that really speaks volumes, and it happened as ducey was certifying the election yesterday. >> that was a hail to the chief ring tone, hard to hear what that was. who was on the other end of it, ducey explained it earlier this year. >> we've had so much outreach personally from both of president and the vice president that i had to change the ring tone on my phone. and it rings "hail to the chief "awe because i didn't want to miss another phone call directly from the white house. >> that was a call from the white house and ducey literally muted it as he certified the will of the voters signing the papers that affirm biden's legitimate win, he sent the ever-lasting fact stopper to voicemail. >>> next, covid cases up in georgia. emergency res

lin wood here telling the crowd that the republican governor brian kemp should be locked up. >> i want you to go to the governor's mansion. i want you to circle it. i want you to blow your horns. until brian kemp comes out and orders a special session of the georgia legislature, and then he can resign. as far as i'm concerned, lock him up! >> lock him up! lock him up! lock him up! lock him up! >> some of the people -- some of the people on that stage looked a little bit uncomfortable. i don't know if they are, but if you look at their faces, look at the two guys. look at the two black guys. they're like -- the ones on the left. the one scratching his head. he is applauding, but -- well, they want to lock up a republican governor, telling governors -- georgians, excuse me, not to vote. if this is the road the president is going to drag the gop down, it is a road to ruin. why are they going along with it? why? why can't this white house just say that it's wrong to threaten election officials? >> georgia officials had said election workers are facing threats because of the president's fal

>> well, it was pretty clear that brian kemp did not want to spend his wednesday afternoon respondingeets, going so far as to say the governor needs to resign with the way he's handled this election. kemp has said the way he handled this whole election was a distraction, a distraction to the runoff which he is working very hard to help get republican candidates elected. listen to how kemp responded a few minutes ago. >> i got to focus on the issues of the day in georgia, not what someone else is tweeting. that horse has left the barn in georgia and it's head to do d-- headed to d.c. it's going to be there, not here. >> and kemp said the president responded to all sorts of different things about the georgia lekelection, including, there kneelneeded to be a hand recount, there needed to be a signature check. these are things georgia has done. there was a recount and joe biden won every time, and the secretary of state's office completed an audit of one of the counties that president trump had specifically said was a problem related to the signature match system. they found that it was 9

great job, brian kemp. the governor is on defense.fox news last night he is one of the president's biggest supporters. >> the president i said many times, he's a fighter. we've had a few battles but nobody worked hadder for of donald trump before november 3rd and i continued to support his efforts in the campaigns any way i legally could post the election and i'll continue to do that and one of those was supporting the legal process to play out of. maria: president trump will be in georgia this weekend. he will rally support ahead of next month's senate runoff races. kelly loeffler and david purdue defending the gop seats in the senate. president trump's team also filing another lawsuit in nevada, saying that more than 40 of thousan40,000 people double , along with 1500 others that already died, dead voters. in pennsylvania, republican lawmakers are asking the supreme court to block the final certification of votes counted there, arguing that voting procedures violated the constitution. they changed the rules and it was unconstitution

here in georgia, in particular that matching, we got because of brian kemp saying he supports it. want to tell you this is a gentleman here named bob lawrence, where are you from and where you are part of this? >> i am here because i feel that right now it is a change in history. i'm from north carolina, i feel that it's important that the american people know the truth. >> the truth is there court cases are not going in the president's direction and yet here you are in georgia. let me ask you about the senate runoff races, are you concerned that some of the messaging going on could it cost control of the senate for republicans? >> it could and i think we have to be united as republicans, now is not to be weak as a republican but to be strong. i believe donald trump is going to be in the white house for the next four years and i wouldn't want to answer to him. i know i've been with him since 2005 but the senate races, donald trump as president are one thing but our democracy will be vested this senate race is not won. so it's very important where we go for this. >> this bus tour i