. >> sandra: much more on all this with georgia congressman doug collins. he will join us next hour to discuss the senate runoff and president trump's continued legal fight there. >> trace: dr. scott atlas is resigning as trump's appointment. he praised the president for delivering on vaccines for the american people and wished the incoming administration all the best. atlas's views on the pandemic were criticized during his tenure but he defended his work to tucker carlson last night. >> i think we now saw that science has been politicized, america and its universities really need to allow, without attack, without rebuke, without intimidation, the free exchange of ideas because it is from the free exchange of ideas that scientific truths follow.

saying somehow brian kemp got together with her to keep doug collins off the ballot.w trump is not playing four dimensional chess. he's eating the chess pieces. >> i worked on a couple elections down south. it's a different world. those who read your book i'm enjoying it. know you have family roots in georgia. and you talk about the elections down south. there sa will the to it that you are authentic. rural voters will want that biography to be real. you have loeffler from illinois. nothing wrong with that. her biography there's a long piece talking about how much she was imported into georgia. and buy a senate seat. and turns around and makes money off her inside knowledge of the pandemic. as did perdue. and you have the two guys super-flawed. they have issues. and the way they're fighting to keep a seat is down the republican establishment in their state. and go after the pastor of a baptist church. and saying it comes from the pit of hell. i don't get it. >> i don't get it either. you are right. i told people about campaigning at least in my neck of the woods in no

doug collins joins us now to discuss this., i watched the debate, i won't get into it too much but the only thing that sticks out to me, georgia is a conservative state. we've got this guy warnock, a preacher but doesn't believe in the military or the police and believes in abortion and things the bible supports abortion. who's crazy, me or him? >> it is not you, judge. good to see you again. no, he's trying to pull the ultimate bait and switch. it appears puppy ads and everything is okay but came out the other day, i am a pastor. he said the room is too small for a whole and the government. my question is, where is god in that? he should have been the focus and my scripture tells me something different. he is also against police, can't serve god and the military. i've been a military chaplain 19 years. i've served in iraq. i'll tell you now, you better serve god and the military also. he really had it, -- what he said, counselors, you can't say how liberal you are, it is time georgia turns him back. judge jeanine: i would hav

doug collins called her insufficiently conservative, a closet moderate.has to work and generate that energy from the conservative base by appealing directly to president trump. one of her worst nightmares is one false tweet, one angry tweet from president trump saying she's not doing enough to support him. >> i'm wondering if this vote that she and senator perdue cast in support of the defense funding bill is enough for that? because president trump has said he will veto it. there are 2 of 84 senators to support it. what do you think, that is significant enough separation from the president that it could be troublesome for the two of them? >> yeah. this was the first major vote where they did distance themselves, they did separate themselves from the president and it was an impossible situation for them because there are about 500,000 or so military veterans here in georgia and that bill is a must-pass spending bill to keep financing the department of defense installations here in georgia and elsewhere. luckily for them, i would say, they have a lot of co

hear from georgia congressman doug collins, ohio congressman, jim jordan on tap.oderna's vaccine could get emergency use from the fda any moment this morning, this as vice president mike pence will receive pfizer's vaccine live in about an hour. we're going to bring you that coming up. plus, we're talking to one doctor would was vaccinated yesterday. plus, stimulus showdown in place, congress is scrambling to get americans the help they need as talks could spill into the weekend. who is pushing for what money and what will a deal look like? markets this morning are higher, take a look, fractional moves this morning with the dow industrials up about 10 points, nasdaq slipping into negative territory, down about a point, the s&p 500 up 3 and three quarters, all three major indices begin the day in record territory as they all finished in unchartered territory yesterday. dow industrials up 148 at the close yesterday, nasdaq up 106 and s&p 500 up 21, best performer nasdaq, up 43% in 2020, looking like the best year since early 2000. questions for eric swalwell continu

todd: doug collins has reminder for voters.ek's runoff impacted a whole lot more than politics in the peach state. >> i know bad theology and rafael warknock is not consistent, john ossoff has too many ties to the chinese communist party and the liberal left. what we see is becoming clear. the distinction is clear. we will get purdue and kelly letter, or two radical liberals who are not connected to georgia or the values we see across our state. jillian: congresswoman stephan act, strong surrogate for both candidates has this morning about control of the senate for chuck schumer. >> every voter should know we made significant investments. every vote matters and we need to make sure every republican voter turns out. we can't hand control of the senate to chuck schumer. i see in new york how radical far left he is. he's not represent mainstream america. he doesn't represent my district or mainstream georgia. every vote will matter in this race. >> reporter: donald trump heads to dalton, georgia on january 4th to rally support for

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and nobody knows georgia lake my former colleague, doug collins. what is the state of georgia one week out? >> it's tided we can say -- it's becoming crystal clear that -- i might not win well wisconsin law, but i do know bad theology. and i know raffia warrant. just an unknown candidate who is too many ties to the chinese communist party and the liberal left. what we see down here it's becoming clear. the station is clear. it georgia matters to the entire country, not just here. or we are going to get to radical liberals were not connected through it or any values that we can see across our state. but this is a big-time election. it's got to be carried out. where is seeing turn out heavy i'm encouraging everybody to get out and vote. you cannot let the multiple things going on keep you away from the polls. you have to get out and vote. if you are a trumped voter in georgia, you have an obligation. >> trey: you mention theology, congressman. i almost thought an addition to being a great lawyer, you were a preacher back in the day too, weren't you?

joining us with reaction's former white house chief of staff reince priebus, and georgia congressman doug collins. we are very lucky, the breaking news is about wisconsin and election law, and we happen to have a wisconsin election law expert with us. that would be you, reince. not you, doug. let's start with you, reince. what should the viewers take from this appeal to the u.s. supreme court? >> well, merry christmas and happy new year to you, trey and doug. what the trump campaign is doing, they are making a claim on two fronts.ar first, in wisconsin, the statee legislature is the only group of people that have a right to choose the manner in which electors are chosen, and without repeating -- other viewers have heard me talk about this case -- the issue there, it was the clerksue in wisconsin that shows to run the election contrary to state law. wisconsin is not an early vote state, so unlike most of you watching, wisconsin does not actually allow early vote, but with -- they said we are going to recreate our own system of voting and allow people to voten in person, absentee. he created all ki

i want to thank doug collins. what a job he does. thank you. doug, you want to run for governor in two years? good looking governor. a friend of mine, one of the toughest guys you will ever see, louie gohmert of texas. louie. thank you, louie. and a young up and comer who has taken washington by storm, dan crenshaw. where is dan? i didn't see you, dan. the first time that ever happened to me. because you do stand out in many ways. thank you very much, dan. the next senator from tennessee just got elected. did my endorsement help? you better believe it. we love tennessee. bill haggerty. he will be a great senator for a long time. your former governor only left because of a thing called term limits. if i had known i would have tried to end those term limits. but he went to the department of agriculture. he has done a tremendous job. we hand out $28 billion to farmers. i said how badly have we been targeted by china? sonny perdue said 28 billion. i put the tariffs on china and gave it to the farmers. and we had money left over and put it into the

joining now is georgia congressman doug collins.gressman, 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 there with you, we have to have everybody turn out. i will make it clear. every trump voter and everyone who's been watching the last four years, better economy, stronger military, they have to vote for david perdue and kelly loeffler. no saying that i'm not going to vote or anything else. let me go with one thing. the governor hit it right, asking for the signature recounts in the signature verification. we asked for that as well. there's one thing and you mentioned stacey abrams. i'm not scared of. but i'm tired of stacy. i'm tired of her trashing the states and we had voter suppression that she did after she lost the governor. in fact of the matter, let's deal with

. >> martha: all right, so tonight, we welcome georgia congressman doug collins. congressman, good to have you here tonight. >> good to see you. >> martha: it was a pretty subtle shift in the way that the trump team and his supporters and allies started to look at the situation after we saw that moment yesterday with lin wood and sidney powell on that stage, exhorting people, republicans in georgia, not to vote in this election. then, we saw this tweet from the trump war room, saying, "lin wood has for decades voted for and donated to democrats, including barack obama and david produce 2014 opponent, then newt gingrich, support of the president, chimed in, "lin wood and sidney powell are totally destructive, they are "don't vote" strategy will cripple america." what do you think about that? >> is a simple choice. if voters like what has happened the last four years, this is about going forward and not backward. we have to have everybody turn out. there are issues with the election. i respect everybody -- there's others filing suits, going through the process, but

so, both -- both, kelly loeffler and doug collins, were fighting among themselves to try to get intohead of that january 5th runoff. so a lot of attacks have not been focused on him, so that's why you are seeing this onslaught of attacks. as you mnentioned, a very classc attack about democrats being too liberal for the state. at the end of the day, this is going to turn out to be a base election. the republicans believe they need to drive up their base. that's why donald trump is going there, to help both loeffler and david perdue on saturday. the democrats, though, believe that republicans are miscalculating here, in large ways, because of just the growth of voters, particularly in the atlanta suburbs. one reason why joe biden carried that state and one reason why they're hopeful. but of course, at the end of the day, who comes out and votes on january 5th, when there is no president at the top of the ticket, still, anyone's guess here. >> january 5th is not a typical day to go out and vote. but obviously, there is a lot of attention there. and on that, i want to play a snippet of a

doug collins is also on that list.re are names like devin nuÑes and liz cheney missing, but we'll see if that changes in the days to come. texas, as you know, claims coronavirus-related changes to each state's election procedures violated the constitution. texas' a.g., ken paxton, who filed the lawsuit says texas has standing because the folks in his state didn't have their voices heard because other state elections were not conducted properly. so far as you mentioned, 17 other states have filed a brief in support of the texas lawsuit. now, to be fair, create ins have called this suit -- critics have called in this suit unserious from the outset with pennsylvania's attorney general calling it, quote, a seditious abuse of the judicial process. but backers say this is precisely the venue where this case needs to be heard, and we'll see how it plays out in the days ahead. david? david: these critics were the same people saying there was nothing to the hunter biden story -- >> reporter: exactly. david: kevin corke reportin

that's why the republican governor brian kemp fought the system by tapping her over doug collins, byeans a trump ak light on capitol hill. there's not unit on that side. so i do think you can see victory happen on the democratic side and senate. it says something, that the power of the senate will be determined by the rising majority of america, the new american electorate, people of color. >> certainly i know that's how kelly loeffler's critics certainly tagged her in georgia. there's also been frustration among georgia officials at doug collins in the wake of this as they try to focus on getting these two republicans elected and he continues to side with president trump. tiffany, let me ask you about raphael warnock specifically. it's really unique that we have a black candidate who is facing this runoff with an electorate, as you say, that is more and more engaged. what do you think it means to them to have warnock on the ticket? is he going to be the one who is helping out jon ossoff here as the two of them campaign together? >> i think they're both going to help each other. jon

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-- fast talking doug collins on the ballot. so it's bizarre. along with willie and me this morning, we have washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay. we're awaiting for her exclusive interview with hugo chavez later this hour. and executive editor of the weekend and -- >> i have to go -- the devil went down to georgia. >> oh, yes. the host of hell and high water podcast john heilemann. mika has the morning off. she's looking for the exclusive interview with fidel castro so maybe we'll get castro and chavez. that would be fantastic. but let's start, willie, where the vice president was yesterday where control of the senate rests in the coming weeks. let's start in georgia. >> by the way, if anyone can book those two guys it's mika. she'll find a way. let's start in georgia where voters are coming out in record numbers now for that high stakes senate runoff. early in-person voting began on monday and the turnout eclipsed the record set in the first day in the weeks before the november 3rd election. "the new york ti

. >> congressman doug collins in charge of the initial recounts talked about allegations of fraud withngram. >> 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 leffler and david perdue are elected and put back in the united states senate. jillian: former president obama will campaign for democrats in the georgia senate runoff, rallying for the republicans tomorrow. martha maccallum starting at 6:4:05 pm. we will join you live monday morning before 6:00. president-elect joe biden and vice president elect kamala harris sit down for their first joint interview since the election revealing a plan to provide relief from those struggling from the pandemic. >> if it gets to 900 that would be a good start. it is not e

. >> dana: we want to bring georgia republican congressman doug collins who is working on the run offctions. last night's debate. i watched the loeffler and warnock. ossoff debated by himself. how did it go for loeffler? did she accomplish what you wanted her to accomplish in terms of labelling warnock as a radical leftest? >> yes, and ossoff lost as well. loeffler did what she needed to do, attempt to show how left warnock is. he doesn't want the people of georgia to realize how much he bought into the leftest agenda for the take over of our healthcare system. it showed last night in one question. he was asked: do you think that the courts ought to be packed? he said i have not even thought about. nobody believes that. he has thought about it. if he says the progressives get mad. if he says yes it reveals who he really is. >> dana: do you think perdue made a better choice in choosing not to debate? >> he debated ossoff twice before. ossoff was telling lies. david already presented his case. last night it was just another chance in 30 minutes to see softball questions thrown to someon

i am also very grateful to congressman doug collins.hough members of the house of representatives, who again, stood with us, put the health of the american people first. it's an honor to have you join us. the people here at the cdc. we are in a challenging time in the course of this pandemic, and all of us have a role to play. wash our hands, social distance, wear a mask. when it's indicated. we are also in a season of hope. this time of year is always filled with hope through faith and to the hearts of the american people. to be as are, maybe, bob, just a week and a half away from what will be the likely approval of the firm's coronavirus vaccine american people. inspiring the people of this country. and we would not be here but for the tireless efforts of everyone involved in our national response. and especially for all the men and women of the cdc. so, i look forward to an update. thank you for the strong recommendations from the ac ip that you and the cdc have endorsed. we are going to put a priority on our seniors and staff on lon

was right now supposed to be at a concert alongside senator kelly leffler and lindsey graham and doug collins not happening. the campaigning is continuing with democrats on the trail and early voting taking place just behind me. see the line there. the polls closed 20 minutes ago. there's still a long line of folks waiting to get inside to cast their ballots. folks were here before the clock struck 3:00 p.m. i spoke to at lot of voters today. many waiting for upwards of two hours waiting to cast their ballot. they said they were determined to make their voices heard in this alec shelection. take a listen. >> i felt like this is a little bit of inconvenience for something that really matters. you know, i'm not going to die by being cold and i felt like my ancestors sacrificed a lot for me. it's not going to hurt me to stand in line in the cold. i've done it for something a lot more trivial. >> reporter: these are voters in cobb county. one of those diversifying suburbs that help put joe biden over the top in november and could be key to a democratic win in the senate races. the candidates for

people of georgia and the people of america that brian kemp conspired with kelly loeffler to keep doug collinsff the ballot. so now trump's own circle -- sidney powell's been at all of those press conferences with rudy up until a week or so ago. they're saying that there's a conspiracy out there and that kelly loeffler in the runoff got there illegally with a conspiracy with the governor of the state of georgia. so there's all in infighting. i talked about this several weeks ago. i asked what mitch mcconnell was thinking, i'm not sure what he's thinking, because here we are. he won't step in and show any leadership. he won't -- he won't talk about the truth. he won't talk about the law. you know, he said let the votes be counted, let the legal challenges move forward. well, maybe, mitch, you need to read the national review, you need to review "the wall street journal" editorial pages. you need to see what everybody already knows. that at this point, the votes have been counted. the legal challenges have been had. the votes have been certified in every swing state and you would hope that there

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she stole the election from doug collins. so since the president is working with this woman again, just understand that. that you have been cheated and they have stolen the vote from you and you should get your retribution by not letting somebody like kelly loeffler who is involved in this conspiracy theory get elected. anyway, that's what sidney powell would want you to say. as far as rosen at the white house, mika, after barr leaves i can't imagine the strain that is going to be on him, the pressure that he's going to be under when he's running the justice department. it's going to have to be crushing to his soul to endure that day after day. my god, he may even have to put up with ugly tweets for 16, 17 days. >> what? really? that's a long time. >> we'll see if he's man enough to be able to do that. but seriously, pressure? you call that pressure? 16 or 17 days in a nut house? 1600 pennsylvania avenue. try not to screw it up. not that much pressure. follow the constitution. >> well, pat robertson who at one time had been o

i wanted dolin doug collins to . i think he represents georgians.'s policies. i think that's what voters in georgia want. jillian: senator bernie sanders says winning georgia races will make the goal of making joe biden the most progressive president in american history much easier. let's listen to what he had to say. >> your goal is to get joe biden elected and to make him the most progressive president in the history of the united states. that job becomes easier if you don't have republicans controlling the senate. >> absolutely. we're all working as hard as we can to make sure that the two democratic candidates are winning georgia. jillian: now, do you think that georgia voters want the most progressive president in history? i ask that, also keeping in mind that joe biden has taken georgia in the presidential election. i mean, the recounts were just certified i think two days ago. so what do you think people here actually want? >> i think that you talk about who won the election, i think stacy abrams did a big job of getting people registered, ma

i am also very grateful to congressman doug collins and all the members, the house of representatives, who've again stood with us, put the health of the american people first. it's an honor to have you join us for this update from the people here at cdc. we are in a challenging time in the course of this pandemic and all of us have a role to play. wash our hands, social distance, wear a mask when it's indicated. but, we are also in a season of hope. this time of year is always filled with hope through faith traditions in the hearts of the american people, especially our children, to be as we are, maybe, bob, just a week and a half away from what will be the likely approval of the first coronavirus vaccine for the american people. it's inspiring the people in this country. we would not be here but for the tireless efforts of everyone involved in our national response, and especially for all the men and women of the cdc. so, i look forward to an update. thank you for those strong recommendations from the acip that you and the cdc had endorsed. we are going to put a priority on our senio

he wanted doug collins who she bested in the primary. it's so hard to thread the need. it's impossible to look anything but like you are waffling, because the honest answer is, there's no answer for kelly loeffler to give to that question because as ron noted, she is making a 100% hard core appeal to the trump base. she's not trying to reach out to the middle. the trump base, the trump base. the only way is not to say, well, maybe that brian kemp is doing what he should be doing, which is upholding the law and protecting democracy. it's an impossible place that he is putting these candidates on which the senate majority relies in. >> ron, the poll -- i saw a poll the other day in georgia. a very close contest on both -- for both of the two senate seats on january 5th. you do a lot of work looking at these polls. is it very close right now. could go either way. right? >> right. it clearly is -- these are going to go down to the wire. it's very hard to poll for a special election like this in terms of who turns out. i think it's very hard for pollsters to predict. democra

would've been included on thursday for a clerical error in another big name georgia representative doug collins is on that list. there's a few other high-profile names missing mike devin nunes and liz cheney but we'll see if that changes in the days to come. texas claims coronavirus to each estate election procedure violated the constitution, texas ag tim paxson says the folks in his state did not have their voices heard because other state elections were not conducted properly. as you mentioned 17 other states have filed a brief in support of the texas law sink. to be fair critics have called this unserious from theed very outset with pennsylvania state attorney general calling it a submissions abuse of the judicial process the backers say this is precisely the venue where this case needs to be heard and will see howut it plas out in the days ahead. david: the critics were the same people saying there was nothing to the hunter biden story. take that with a grain of salt. kevin corke reporting. the battle for the white house continues, there are new details emerging about the federal investigat

doug collins was chosen for secretary of the insurer and that was a historic choice especially givenican natives -- natives in the americas have been treated by u.s. government historically and the department of interior. aside from that, it is a cabinet right now that is responsive of big, big miss and the war machine and there are people being placed that it just seems like it is a trade to save our means. people have no experience with transportation. >> julie: happy holidays to you both. i just wanted to share a little special annual tradition with you. my year in a nutshell. i don't know if you had a similar year. i homeschooled, i drink a lot, i got dogs, two of them. 2020 would not be complete without three kids and two puppies. a special thanks to storybook experiences.com for making these lasting memories for my family every year. the kids out of of designer chris scully. all of them made that nice list, a miracle after using my floor as a personal potty for the last ten months. but seeing the kids' faces when they saw sano was a reminder that no matter what is going on in o

the side moments he knifed in georgia's politics, chiding the governor and encouraging doug collins tos. and those are the things that make these folks upset. they got standard aligns what they wanted but a good provider from the crowd yelling at the senators and from the president himself that they are under real pressure to follow his words exactly, otherwise, they lose the base. >> it's so complicated. we heard, as you mentioned, the president try to tie jon oshoff and rafael warnock to the left wing. that is what the republicans want the race to be. this is what the democrats hope the election about. >> our lives are being turned upside down and they are doing in washington. david perdue had his chance but he was too busy looking at physician stock portfolio. >> you're down there. is that kind of message resonating? >> democrats have a challenge of their own. they have one that has to maintain a really tight coalition that had georgia go blue on the presidential level but, remember, perdue reason ahead of jon oshoff in november so a group of republicans who voted for perdue on the

saturday night between jesse and greg, you will see my guest there kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, doug collinsis life apricot. he died so they created an otter's only app. so harris goes on the app. he finds a new love named pumpkin so harris and pumpkin are living together. apricot is forgotten and now they are in love again and there you have it. geraldo? >> geraldo: tis the season christmas hanukkah gift to you deep discounts on non-best selling shows. it will first 15 get it tree. www.ben bella books.com enter the code geraldo holiday. let me just quickly add shock that the supreme court has not ruled yet on the texas lawsuit makes it kind of intriguing wonder where we are going. >> dana: keep an eye on it. all right. that's it for everyone. great show. we will see you back here on monday. ♪ ♪ will christmas means to me, my love. pete: welcome, come on in very if he has been in here as it has been all month lock. welcome to "fox & friends" 6:00 a.m. look who is here in the center rachel campos-duffy. good morning, rachel. i know the teleprompter sesame, then will then rachel. rachel i am g

why isn't doug collins' name on there?osen not to surrender all kind of -- all independent judgment or all principle. i wouldn't necessarily call it a profile in courage to not sign on. i do think the people who did sign on, it's a profile in cowardice. but it's a reflection of what donald trump has done really for five years, when he first started getting involved in presidential politics. he asked one question, which side are you on? the establishment's or mine, throughout his presidency, which side are you on? now he's once again saying, which side are you on? in this case, it's are you on my side or the side of precedent, law, custom, and the traditions of democracy. and a lot of people will say, if you're calling the question, i guess i better be on your side, because i'm afraid of my voters and the voters that support you. >> john, margaret, everyone, go read john's piece. it's got incredible history and joe mccarthy not being able to get a lunch date ultimately before he passed away, and margaret axios has great stu

he showed the doug collins ad. he really has a lot of force behind him. not doing this to in opposition to somebody who has no place in the senate, but they're doing it because in their mind this is a good candidate. the wnba players, they met with him. they talked with him. they wanted to know what his principles were. what he stood for. >> absolutely. >> and he impressed them. that's why they decided to support him. it wasn't just about opposing kelly loeffler. >> absolutely. and as you said, taking major risks to do it. financial risks to themselves. always a pleasure to talk to you. thank you very much. that is tonight's "reidout." >>> "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. watch that. >>> tonight on "all in," breaking news of a bribery for pardon investigation in the trump white house. tonight what we know about what and who the justice department is investigating. >>> then the increasingly dangerous unhinged reaction to donald trump's loss. >> someone's going to get hurt. someone's got to get shot. someone's going to get killed. and it's not ri

her primary opponent, doug collins, a leading the charge for the trump campaign about the legality ofis election and it's a situation where republican base members are not just having suspicions about the process, republicans themselves are having suspicions about each other and that is a huge problem going into a runoff when you need a united republican base and a few other voters to come into the process and vote for them. the concern is that as these two republican senators need to stay so close to the president it could damage their own credibility as leaders here in the state. so it's creating an enormous problem that they don't need to have were it not for the president doing this. >> after sterling put out that statement or made that statement you did get these releases from the two senators in georgia saying, oh, of course we abhor violence. what are we supposed to make of the timing of those statements and the effort that went into them, greg? >> yeah, i mean, they had to say something at that point because this has gone viral, it's gotten millions and millions of views, but

election, why she couldn't win an outright majority even though she faced a primary challenge from doug collins, who the president would have liked to have seen in that seat. so obviously a lot coming to play here as the president prepares to go t georgia. that's why sources are telling me republicans are on edge as the president prepares to arrive there. one trump advisor told me, look, if the president spends an hour and a half of this rally tomorrow railing against the republican governor brian kemp, that's not going to be helpful. that being said, they are hopeful that the president can help boost turnout by saying a few good things about david perdue and kelly loeffler, something they can use in television advertisements over the next month leading to the special election. but that is a big, big if, given what we have seen from the president over the last couple of weeks. now, erin, as all of this is happening, we're also watching something happening here at the white house, and that is the beginnings of an exodus of staff that is bubbling behind the scenes. you saw that bubble to the surf

the people in the special elections is in a conspiracy with the governor of the state to keep doug collinsfler shouldn't be in this runoff, that she was involved in a scam. and that's all coming from the republican side. so we'll see if -- we'll see if it depresses the vote for republicans and democrats have a shot to pick up at least one of those two seats. >> so against that backdrop, you have president-elect biden entering the white house facing a world like we've never seen before. not just this kind of opposit n opposition, but, obviously, those twin crises of the pandemic and the economy. president truman had a pretty big pile of crises in front of him which you lay out in your new book "saving freedom." so i know you've talked a lot about this, but as you look at where we are right now, joe, how does president-elect biden follow or should he follow president truman in some ways in trying to pull this country out of where we are right now which is, again, deep in a crisis. >> well, joe biden really doesn't have any other choice but to follow the approach that harry truman followed. i

there doesn't seem to be any willingness on the part of the players involved and even doug collins saids too late to change anything in georgia. >> but it doesn't have to be. i mean, we have a republican governor. we have a republican controlled legislature. we can get them together and get this done pretty quickly. i mean, the fact that we allowed whether it be the ballot harvesting, whether we allowed the applications be sent out without people requesting them. all across the state. i mean, this is just completely ridiculous. we are talking about control of the u.s. senate here that's coming up. and i would think that governor brian kemp would step up and do something here. if he doesn't have the courage to go and do this, i mean, clearly, he doesn't care about president trump. but if he doesn't care about making sure that we get the senate contest right, when we have had all these examples of fraud and abuse and statistical anomalies in the state of georgia, there have been a lot of problems in the state of georgia with regard to this election on november 3rd. i think it's up to the

loeffler also, in order to ward off that challenge from doug collins to make sure she got into the top to the farthest right possible in that race. and now in a remarkably brazen pivot, has really got a different message down the home stretch. these are ads from earlier in the year and the ads she's running now matched up against each other. take a look. >> did you know kelly loeffler was ranked the most conservative senator in america? >> more conservative than attila the hun. >> uh-oh. >> kelly loeffler, 100% trump voting record. >> we need someone who understands how to not only write paychecks and sign paychecks but how it feels like waiting on that paycheck. >> opportunities for minority businesses and a comprehensive health care plan for all georgians. >> pema, that ad says someone who understands waiting on that paycheck. she is literally the richest member of congress as far as we can tell. >> yes. yes. you know, this is sort of the classic pivot, right? you run really far to the right during a primary to get out those base voters, and i think this is particularly true of loeff

apparently in georgia the guy who's leading the effort to overturn the results is georgia congressman doug collinsretary of state, brad raffensperger, who's a republican, went so far as to call collins a liar and a charlatan. now you might remember collins as the insanely fast talking person who took a lead role for republicans during the impeachment proceedings. >> we've talked about the law. they didn't put it in the constitution so i'm not - i can yell on both of them. i can talk about both of them. i still have not got a transcript we still don't know what got in the white house. still has not got their stuff. i was told i couldn't even though they have been staff conversations well before i was told i was asking -- asking too late he said -- as he said help us as a country because we're trying to heal. >> seth: he sounds like he's auctioning off the cocaine from a drug bust after taking a test himself. we got one kilo, we got two, we got five kilo, we got gold plated guns. we got regular guns. we got tiny little guns. then there's south carolina senator lindsey graham, who according to raffen

of voting last month which featured a large field and a intraparty fight between loeffler and doug collinsing a barrage of attacks, including highlighting some of his past sermons. >> america, nobody can serve god and the military. >> reporter: warnock says clips like those are taken out of context. >> it was about priorities and about how one orders your priorities so you can live a moral life. and i think it's unfortunate and shameful that they are trying to distort not only my message, but the message of scripture. >> reporter: the all-out blitz is not just from loeffler but her republican allies, including national republican groups who are pouring millions into the race. >> raphael warnock attacks our military. >> reporter: the strategy is part of a broader effort to convince republican voters that democratic control of the u.s. senate coupled with joe biden as president will lead to an agenda out of step with georgia voters. an argument some republican voters are buying. >> i'm going to vote for both of these two people because the alternative is chuck schumer. the alternative is aoc

that was doug collins out of your thoughts on where this all goes? is not a good faith effort by mcconnel mcconnell. it's not going anywhere, this is just a charade to pretend that he is in favor of giving the $2,000 to georgians and illusions, but he's not. this is a trump grievance 12 turned into legislation and it isn't going anywhere. >> sandra: i will let matt bowers respond to chuck schumer a few minutes ago on the senate floor. he said that leader mcconnell has to get out of the way and allow the house passed a bill on the floor. he said he's very confident that it will pass and that we can move forward. he ultimately said he believes that these $2,000 checks can get 60 votes in the senate. he said that just a few minutes ago. >> i agree. i do think it can get done but chuck schumer has to decide, whose side is he on? will he work for the make and people who right now so desperately need those $2,000 checks, or will he continue to do the bidding of the big tech companies that are funding his democratic attempts to take over the majority right