. >> we'll talk to congressman cedrick rich b monday of louisiana and republican senator kevin cramer. >>> a covid explosion. >> more sick than i have ever seen in my life. >> they just drop so fast. >> daily case records being set. >> we're in an utter emergency here. >> a quarter million americans now dead. >> the trump administration refusing to confer with the biden team. >> we're in a very serious situation. we can do something about it. >> vaccine help is on the way. >> we had enough vaccine doses between these two vaccines of about 20 million during the month of december. >> this morning you'll hear my conversation with dr. fauci and i'll talk to the head of operation warp speed. >>> join iing me for inside and analysis are hallie jackson, eddie glaude jr. and anna palmer and john podhoretz. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> is from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. in the days immediately following joe biden's victory, it was easy to dismispresident trump's realit

doubt because you know, all the polls were, you know, lindsey graham was on his last leg eccentrics, cedrick and then actually there was no blue wave at all. the republicans actually did really well considering everything. it's just the for the presidency and that's what a lot of people are and are curious about generally i don't understand it, but i think they look at how do you not acknowledge snow, but he just sat in the weeds, but he's there. that's what makes up a lot of people very curious there. i mean, if all of these polls are often the, the republicans actually get really fight well and they say, well, then there was no doubt that there was no down take effect here. i mean, that's kind of on that. so all i want is evidence to present to me, you know, were they had 3 years of russia? again, i just said, what's the evidence, they never came up with any evidence. and so, i mean, you demanded evidence of this then, and right now you're not demanding evidence. now of this then your seat, then there's a system and there are laws and jen and, and people like are given the opportunity to g

we learned of new names jonning the team, one of them louisiana congressman cedrick richmond holding a press conference in new orleans as we speak and just announced he is leaving congress. he will be a senior adviser at the white house. we'll have more on who's joaning the biden team ahead. joe biden amping up the pressure on the current administration over the intensifying pandemic. front line workers are painting a dire picture of where we are and where they fear we're going. >> we need a release valve. whether that's from society as a whole to take care of one another, quite frankly we are exhausted. i'm tired and not alone in feeling tired. >> we are trying to look at every single procedure we are, nonurgent, postpone those procedures. some point soon our ability to do this will run out and then we'll be trying to decide who gets medical care and who doesn't. >> start with the latest facts that the hour. our country just recorded a devastating 162,000 new daily claims. california's governor is pulling the emergency brake on virus reopenings putting some past restrictions back in

we learned of new names jonning the team, one of them louisiana congressman cedrick richmond holdingrence in new orleans as we speak and just announced he is leaving congress. he will be a senior adviser at the white house. we'll have more on who's joaning the biden team ahead. joe biden amping up the pressure on the current administration over the intensifying pandemic. front line workers are painting a dire picture of where we are and where they fear we're going. >> we need a release valve. whether that's from society as a whole to take care of one another, quite frankly we are

congressman cedrick wilson from louisiana as well, he's been a co-chairman of biden's campaign and is expected to get a broad portfolio working in the west wing, as part of working across coalitions and across government, helping to advance biden's agenda, andrea. >> peter alexander, the president is spending his days tweeting. he's venting over the election while keeping the biden team from taking the traditional steps towards taking over. is he still in denial or what stage of denial is he in? >> reporter: as we talk about states won and lost, it's clear the president remains in that state of denial, still in the residence as we speak this morning. he's been tweeting excessively over the course of the day, complaining about fox news, which doesn't happen in a vacuum. there's new reporting today by a separate outlet saying among other things that the president is considering a digital media empire going forward after this. but that's the sense that i get in conversations with aides and allies. one white house official telling me that the president is very aware that there is no path