>> jim acosta, thanks very, very much. let's continue the discussion with democratic senator chris coons who is joining us. senator coons, thank you very much. your good friend, president-elect biden got to work today in delaware, your home state, on plans to fight the coronavirus pandemic which is getting worse and worse as you know. what will these next two months during this transition look like as the president-elect lays out his agenda? >> well, wolf, in a normal transition the next 72 days would be very busy. there would be landing teams that would go to every federal agency and begin talking about the issues that need to be addressed. there would be decisions made quickly about who could fill not just cabinet positions but literally hundreds of positions for many of the agencies and departments that make up the federal government. as your reporting just covered, the general services administration hasn't released the funding for this process to begin. the president hasn't accepted the inevitability of the transition

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jim acosta is joining us more. the attorney general has taken an unprecedented step in the after math of the election, what is he doing? >> reporter: this transition is so 2020. the attorney general william barr memoed to prosecutors they should investigate in allegation of voter fraud. the attorney general says there has not been any allegation that are risen at a scale that would change the outcome. >> despite what bill barr and the president's allies are doing, are you getting any indication within the white house that the president is willing to accept the outcome? >> reporter: i think beginning to is the key phrase. the trump's adviser starts to see a path of losing as the way this trump's adviser describes it. his team of advisers and at the same time though the president sees it in his political interest to pursue this strategy of fighting it out in court and fighting it out as long as possible. part of that is the president talked about a possibility of a resurrection run in 2024. this is the kind of argume

jim acosta, thank you very much. let's bring back jeff zeleny along with our political correspondent abby philip and cnn political commentator van jones. abby the president yesterday was saying there are six battleground states up in the air right now. we don't know what's going on. we got to wait for them to determine officially what is going on. five of those states earlier, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, nevada, arizona all officially certified biden won those states and just now the governor of wisconsin tony evers said wisconsin officially certified that wisconsin was won by biden. yet the president and his enablers as jim acosta says refuse to accept reality. >> yeah, wolf. it's over. and frankly it's been over for sometime now. at least a week and a half at this point when the results have been clear it's been very clear that none of these legal challenges would work and even listening to roy blunt saying over the weekend that likely joe biden will be sworn in on january 20th, it is not likely. joe biden wil

more now from our jim acosta. this is the first time we have seen president trump over a week, first time i have seen him talked about covid for a while. his loss is further -- the legal battles are falling apart. when is the inevitable going to happen? >> reporter: well, he was pretending in his rose garden that there is some sort of way for him to get back to the white house. he was talking about at some point he's not going to let this country going into the lockdown but proceeded whatever the next administration will do, almost catching himself and acknowledging that joe biden will be taking the keys of the oval office in january. the president is unlikely to ever concede this race but will likely exit the stage on january 20th as expected. that's the plan at this point. the adviser compares this president to the 1991 detroit pistons who famously refused to shake hand with the chicago bulls who beat them in the playoffs. the president just enjoys being the bad boy and he's going to continue to do that. but put

what you were saying to jim acosta is exactly right. they're worried of retribution from the president which equals retribution from his supporters who are the same supporters got each of these republicans elected. there is no other way to see it or put it. that's what republicans on capitol hill admits in a candid way. that's the reason this is happening close up. as for the biden, what's interesting is i have talked to sources there who say the air of calm that president-elect put out today reflected inside the transition. they're not getting funds from the gsa for now, it is okay. they're not getting briefing on the presidential daily brief of the intelligence information, that's okay for now. if that's the case for the next few weeks then maybe the biden transition will have to get more aggressive. i am told they believe if they did that now, it would only backfire for a lot of reasons. the other thing i am told that they feel is really working for them is this arab inability, the fact that the president-elect talked to world leader

chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. jim, we're finally seeing cracks in the wall for support that the republicans have built around the president. >> that's right, wolf. growing number of republicans are calling on the trump administration to start treating joe biden as the president-elect and begin providing him with intelligence briefings so he can hit the ground running after the inauguration. one big obstacle is standing in the way and that's president trump himself. sources tell cnn the president does not want to give up the fight until he's exhausted his challenges at the state level. challenges his own advisers and even some of his own family are telling him are going nowhere. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: in hiding for much of the week since he last addressed the public, president trump is finding out a lame duck cannot be stubborn for very long as some in the republican party are make way for joe biden. growing number of gop senators are calling on the administration to begin providing intelligence briefi

our cnn senior legal analyst laura coates and former federal and state prosecutory elie honig and jim acostaoining us from this rose garden event. first to you, jim, if i could. this is, look, actually one of my favorite events when it comes to the white house. very cute, but whenever you have this during a lame duck presidency hawaii significant meaning in a way, because of the fact that pardons will be coming and when it comes to this president it is, it has more meaning than i'd say other presidents. so you know what are you expecting here in the coming weeks? >> well, brianna, we got a preview what we'll see in the coming weeks out of this traditional thanksgiving turkey pardon ceremony in the rose garden of the white house. you heard the president talk about the dow jones hitting 30,000. did it again at the briefing room and a few minutes ago, onset of the ceremony and at one point referred to the coronavirus as the china virus. almost sounding like he's back on the campaign trail even though he's lost this election and is now the yot going president. even a dig at the former defense se

jim acosta is joining us. so jim, the president refused to concede and many republicans are backing him up. parroting the misinformation and lies. where does it go from here? what is the end game? >> we are in a battle between denialism and reality. it is difficult to see who's going to win at this point. you have the president tweeting out things like we will win. but you have republicans saying the president may not have lost this race. it's not time to congratulate joe biden or talk to the president-elect because he may not have won the race. they're living in a different reality now inside the republican party. i talked to a trump adviser this evening who says they're still pending their hopes that one of the court challenges in these battleground states, former battleground states, basically decided for joe biden will somehow reverse outcomes in certain states. it is such a hope against all hopes that this is going to work out in the president's favor that even people inside the campaign believe it is over

more, now, from our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. so, jim, this was the first time we have actually even seen president trump in over a week. first time i have seen him talk about covid, in a while. his loss was further solidified today. the legal battles are falling apart. what's -- when -- when is the inevitable going to happen? >> well, he was pretending in this rose garden press conference as if there is some way for him to get back into the white house, come january 20th. that's not going to happen. he was even talking, at some point, about how he's not going to let this country go into a lockdown. but then, proceeded to talk about whatever the next administration will do. almost catching himself, acknowledging that joe biden will be taking the keys to the oval office on january 20th. i will tell you, anderson, i talked to a white house adviser earlier today who said, listen. the president is unlikely to ever concede this race, but will likely exit the stage on january 20th, as expected. that is the plan, at this point, according

jim acosta is joining us right now. jim, the president has just tweeted. >> yeah, no surprise, wolf. this first reaction coming in, a tweet from the president. and i can read it to you. i want to thank emily murphy at the gsa for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to her country. she's been harassed, threatened and abused and i do want to see this happen to her, her families or employees of gsa. our case strongly continues, we'll keep up the good fight and we'll prevail. nevertheless in the best interest of our country i'm recommending emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and i've told my team to do the same. wolf, that is interesting on a couple of counts. one is the president at the moment appears to be showing the openness to this transition going forward. that, i think, is of some note. this is not a combative sounding statement. it's obviously not in touch with reality when he says i believe we'll prevail and so on, but he is showing some openness to this transition period

there are a lot of questions about this, and the jim acosta comment is part of why the public reallysn't trust what's going on. howard: mollie, president trump and his team have every right to pursue their legal challenges. on friday, however, just on friday they lost rulings or, you know, had legal setbacks in michigan, arizona and pennsylvania. arizona's republican governor says he believes biden will win the state, there's not enough fraud to overturn. so my question is just as a straight news story covering the legal developments, it doesn't seem to be looking good for the trump team. would you disagree? >> i'm not sure. legal developments will be what they are, and we have to wait and see how they conclude, and there will be new filings, and they should be covers honestly and accurately. there is the issue that the media should have curiosity about what was just referenced, this massive move to mail-in balloting which has much less scrutiny than normal voting in person, and it should have, in fact, much more. so you have a certain level of fraud in every election, expect media j

let me come back to jim acosta's reporting what the president is apparently gearing up to say.irst off we know that the president talks a lot. i think what is clear after four years is all bark and no bite. i think what is also clear from our constitution, erin, is it's not the president that picks the president, it's the people that pick the president. so donald trump can get out there and say whatever the hell he wants on election night, but the only thing that matters is when we counted up all the legal eligible votes in pennsylvania and other states and what people have said, what the will of the people is. as the attorney general of pennsylvania, i will protect the will of the people. i could care less what donald trump says, we will count these ballots in a proper way to be certified. >> attorney general shapiro, thank you for your time. thanks for laying this out. so helpful. >> good to be with you. >>> up next, police preparing for violence after the election as they issue a warning about unrest. former director of the cia is "outfront." for trump the road to the white

cnn's chief white house core spopt, jim acosta, joins us now with more. so the attorney general of the united states has taken unprecedented steps in the aftermath of the presidential election. what is he doing? >> yeah, anderson, this is going to be so 2020 i think. attorney general william barr sent a memo to federal prosecutors across the country that they should investigate any allegations of voter fraud. it is interesting to note, anderson, that in this moemo, te attorney general says, so far, there haven't been allegations that have risen to the scale that would change the outcome of the election. so at this point, it appears the attorney general is performing for an audience of one, at this point, anderson. >> despite what bill barr and the president's congressional allies are doing, are you getting any indication from within the white house that the president's beginning to accept the outcome? >> i think, beginning to, anderson, is the key phrase there. i talked to a trump adviser earlier this evening, who said that the president is starting to se

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cnn's chief white house correspondent jim acosta joins us now. she is still the spokesperson for the white house, right? >> reporter: as far as we know, anderson, she has not held a briefing in some time. she was with the president for the nutty statement he gave in the briefing room one week ago tonight, but i think she is some of the mind-set that the president is right now. they are dug in. talking to advisers this evening, anderson, we do not expect the president at this point, barring some kind of big turnaround on this part, to give up these challenges until after they make their way through the courts in about a week or so from now. >> most of them are making their way through the court, you know, like, you know, stuff makes its way through a golden goose. they're going through the court pretty fast because most judges are just tossing this stuff out because there is no there there. >> that's right and falling flat on their face. and when the president is talking to his advisers, yes, he's dejected, he's upset about all of this. he's lashi

jim acosta is joining us from the white house with the latest. jim, why did this happen finally tonight? how does the president feel about it? what's going on here? >> reporter: we are trying to piece together why this is happening tonight. i think there is a big reason why in the state of michigan, you have officials certifying results of that election. this election is only heading in one direction and that's the direction of president-elect joe biden. the president did tweet and as you saw earlier this evening saying that he recommended to people hearing from the gsa. one of those add vvisers saying there you go, that's over and the president essentially conceding here. so at this point, john, you and i both know all too well, the president can still play games with this. he has a couple of months left in office. this may be as close as you were saying a few moments ago to a concession conceded by the president. >> so what then for the president's legal team. what are they going to do now? every time they're doing something, they're getting bea

you jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >> julian, so last night, president trump's former white house chief issued a statement criticizing his former boss for not helping the biden transition team. he wrote the delay in transitioning is an increasing national health crisis. and he went on to write the downside to not doing so could be catastrophic to our people regardless of who they voted for. >>. >> what is the biggest worry here? >> well, it is strong language coming from john kelly. he's not the first person to raise these concerns this week. there was another letter from 150 former national security officials from the cia to the nsa raising similar concerns. and we know in any transition time, that's when states tend to be most vulnerable. and you really want that transition to go smoothly for immediate threats, but also for being prepared for future threats. padly also is the coronavirus crisis and the need to have a smooth transition to ensure the rollout of a vaccine, to ensure that crisis is being addressed readily, as well. >> some very important issues there. as we heard th

. >>> let's bring in chief white house correspondent jim acosta, that surprise appearance by the presidentents ago. jim, i have to say, i was all prepared to take notes on what the president had to say. i ended up scribbling 30,000 and stock market is up. what was that presser about? >> reporter: that was the weirdest thing i've seen here at the white house, and i have seen a lot in the last several years. i will tell you, nia, the president came in there about 30 seconds, may have been longer than 30 seconds. he obviously wanted to tout the performance in the dow, down on wall street. the president wanted to take credit for that. there was talk on social media, twitter, people crediting the biden transition for general services administration to begin ascertainment procedures that are now in motion. and there was a lot of chatter on wall street that the pop in the dow was somehow related to the biden transition team getting going and janet yellen at the treasury department. that probably precipated the president wanting to take credit for it himself. as you and i both know, nia, the presi

jim acosta has the lastest from the white house. >> reporter: welcome to the white house twilight zone where president trump is still clinging to an alternate reality. >> this administration won't be to going so the lockdown. >> reporter: in the real world it's different story, as cnn projects biden has won georgia and arizona. that gives biden a big 306 electoral vote victory as the popular vote margin the president-elect ahead by more than 5 million ballot. >> reporter: no impression that he was plotting the overthrow of the elected government. >> reporter: still some of the president's friends are sounding like hostage negotiators, trying to talk mr. trump into surrendering to defeat. >> if he was satisfied that every legitimate vote had been counted he would follow the edict of the constitution. >> reporter: white house press secretary kay leigh mcenny is spinning the fantasy that mr. trump is marching toward a second term. >> he would have to be at the inauguration in fact. >> reporter: peter navarro. >> we're moving forward here at the white house under the assumption that there

we have to watch that tomorrow night to see how it plays out. >> jim acosta, appreciate it. john legend there on your screen. campaign ecvents are happening lot. jon king is at the magic wall for us tonight. let's talk about 270. the latest path, what feels solid and unknown. >> we all lived through 2016. let's walk through it slowly. we know it was pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin that puts the president over the top. racine county, look how close it is. the president is trying to recreate the magic if you will. he needs to and plus he needs a bigger come back than four years ago. how does that translate into the map that matters most as we start counting votes tomorrow? this is 2016 map. this is the trump's map. let's start from the last battlefield and walk through here. joe has a comfortable lead in michigan and wisconsin and outside the margin of pennsylvania. if he can do that, that's why the president is out there as well. those three states if he can keep the clinton states and add those three, joe biden is the next president of the united states. he's there of t

let's go to jim acosta. the trump administration is moving ahead under the false and ridiculous notion that the president won a second term. tell us more about that. >> that's right, wolf. republicans are rallying behind president trump as he refuses to concede the election to joe biden as foreign leaders are phoning president-elect biden to congratulate him, mike pompeo told reporters there would be a smooth transition to a second trump administration. on top of that, the white house office of management and budget is continuing to tell agencies to prepare their upcoming budget proposals as if nothing is changing. the one state the president is on the verge of clinching, the state of denial. president trump and his gop allies are steering the 2020 election into something out of the dystopian world of 1984, ignoring last week's results, pretending somehow they won. >> there will be a smooth transition to a second trump administration. >> all right. we're ready. the world is watching what's taking place. >> r

let's begin with an update from our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. some of the president's most prominent supporters finally are beginning to acknowledge reality. >> reporter: that's right. the dam hasn't broken yet but a growing number of republicans are calling on the administration to treat joe biden as the president-elect and begin providing him with intelligence briefings so he can hit the ground running after the inauguration but one thing is still standing in the way and that's the president. he doesn't want to give up the fight until he challenges every fight. and some in his own family saying they're going in where. in hiding for the week, president trump is finding out a lame duck can't be stubborn for long as some in the republican party are making way for joe biden. a growing number of gop senators are calling on the administration to provide intelligence briefings for biden, standard practice during a peaceful transfer of power. >> no loss for him to get the briefings. if that's not occurring by friday i will step in as well to say this

i'm jim acosta. wolf blitzer is off today. >>> on this day, u.s. crossed another dire milestone in this pandemic. topping 13 million confirmed coronavirus cases as the death toll climbs to 264,000 people. we have just learned cdc advise remembers will vote next week on who gets the coronavirus vaccine first. a federal appeals court just denied the campaign's effort to revive a lawsuit challenging the election results in pennsylvania the three-judge panel saying, quote, the claims have no merit and that voters, not lawyers, choose the president. president trump himself is reversing course now saying president-elect joe biden can only enter the white house if he can prove he got 80 million votes but that is not true. despite the president's baseless claims biden is moving forward with the transmission and expected to name an economic team next week and get his first presidential daily brief on monday. let's get more with jm lee. we are expecting key announcements about the future biden administration, aren't we? >> reporter: that's right p.m. joe bid

jim acosta joins us with the very latest. jim, how does the president feel about it? and what's going on here? >> yeah, john, we're still trying to piece together exactly why this is happening tonight. but i think there is a big reason why, in the state of michigan, when you have officials there certifying results of that election. that was one additional signal going to the general services administration that this election is only heading in one direction, and that is in the direction of the president-elect joe biden. the president did tweet, as you saw, earlier this evening, saying that he's recommended to the people over at the gsa that they can begin what he is calling initial protocols. and i talked to a couple of trump advisers this evening. one of those kwiezers saying, there you go, there at's it, it over. and another described it as concession light. great taste but less fulfilling. at this point, john, it passes prolog. you and i both know all too well, the president can still play games with this. he has, still, a couple months left in office. but for now,

i'm jim acosta in "the situation room" and we're following breaking news.p has just announced a full pardon for his former national security adviser michael flynn, a key figure in robert mueller's russia investigation who pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. also breaking just a short time ago, president-elect joe biden delivered a sober compassionate thanksgiving address to a nation in the grips of a worsening pandemic. his message, "we're at war with the virus, not with one another." the u.s. death toll from the coronavirus has now topped 261,000 with more than 12.7 million confirmed cases. experts are make one final plea to americans to avoid travel and celebrating thanksgiving safely with one doctor warning the holiday could become, "the mother of all superspreader events." first to cnn's kaitlan collins at the white house for more of president trump's pardoning of michael flynn. kaitlan, give us the latest. >> reporter: jim, he announced it by tweet that he is going to pardon his first national security adviser mike flynn, who only lasted on the job for

cnn's jim acosta has more now from washington, d.c. >> we're starting to see the peaceful transfer of power in washington as the general head of services administration has released a letter stating that the biden team can begin the process. instructing the head of gsa for initial protocols for the transition process. in the meantime, talked to a couple of trump campaign advisers who said that is the closest we may hear from president trump that he lost the race to former vice president joe biden. the president is sounding as if he wants to continue fighting out the legal challenges to the court in the 2020 election results. a trump campaign adviser said the president is out of options. as this adviser put it, it's the end of the road for president trump. jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >> joe biden's team welcomed the move from the general services administration. the executive director of joe biden's transition saying it is quote the needed step to begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track. david ger

let's get to the white house and cnn's jim acosta. so tell us, and also, when he came back from playing golf which i know is what he did today, they put i guess technically a lid meaning we weren't going to see him again, anticipating him being quiet but of course did not keep him off twitter but what is really going on here? >> reporter: yeah. one thing we should point out is the white house has called a lid. that means we do not expect to see the president later on this evening. he could change all that. he is the president and can do that. he is the president for another couple months mind you. we did see the president return back to the white house after a day on the golf course a short while ago and he was greeted by these throngs of jubilant biden supporters out in the streets celebrating biden's victory as president-elect of the united states. i have to tell you, erin, it is a striking thing to see. you know, i grew up in this city and, you know, you just don't see celebrations like this in the nation's capital very often. i wa

. >> i want to go on the campaign trail and talk to jim acosta at the trump rally. is it more what he's been saying all throughout the day, and what do we expect from him tomorrow on his schedule? >> reporter: anderson, i think we'll hear much of what we've heard from the president so far. i think they are hopeful that this grand rapids rally will have the same effect that it had four years ago. remember, the president ended his campaign when he was then-candidate trump back in 2016 in grand rapids. vice president mike pence is on stage right now as he was four years ago. we expect to see trump family members doing that as well. the message is dark, it is ugly, it is divisive, and it is potentially dangerous as you heard the president out on the campaign trail earlier today warning governor tom wolf in pennsylvania, we have eyes on you, we're watching you, don't engage in any election fraud. of course, the governor has not been accused credibly of any election fraud. we should remind viewers that the president has been talking about election fraud since before he ca

past award oners by the way include january rather and jim acosta. >> very nice for dr. fauci.ee you again at 6:00. >> see you soon. >>> tonight the coronavirus exploding to staggering new records. 1 million cases in just the first 10 days of november. the grim new projection, 20 million cases by christmas the record 62,000 hospitalized states cracking down with new restrictions. tonight rare access inside a covid icu the survivor taking her first steps since getting out of a coma. her message to others. >>> the split screen on this veterans day president trump making his first public appearance in six days at arlington national cemetery and still refusing to concede. >>> one tight race headed to a hand recount. president-elect biden at a separate even

. >> jim acosta, it's -- where is he off to after this? is this it for the night? >> he has one more event in florida later tonight. tomorrow, it's another big day that ends in grand rapids, michigan, where he ended his campaign four years ago. the president feels as though -- i talked to an advisor about this -- the big rallies that bring in lots of supporters is motivating turnout, it's getting people to the polls. they are banking on that strategy working again. i was with the president four years ago. he is hitting red states very late in this campaign. when he is going to rome, georgia, two days before the election, that goes to what i'm hearing from people close to the campaign that the president is in a lot of trouble 48 hours before election night. >> jim aacosta, thanks. >>> joe bide en was asked about all of this. how is biden responding to the report which president trump denied about trump likely claiming victory even if he doesn't have 270 electoral votes? >> anderson, the biden campaign wants a blowout. they want to make it unequivocal they have won t

power to keep their job to keep the thing that keeps them going imagine a white house scrum with jim acosta and who is it it's president harris excuse me president biden and they say ok. that's nice ok what are people like large late night shows you know the cold bears and other what are they going to do talk about how great job on this and if they bring up donald trump donald trump seduced me i'm not the president anymore which leads me to this he will be the most powerful x. president in the history of ex-president he will be sitting back courtside completely unfettered completely unedited completely an expert gated and unlimited in what he can and can't say he'll be able to lob a mollet of cocktail into anything and completely redirect the attention while he truly and theoretically lost he could very well be bigger than ever and don't be surprised my good friend if you don't see trump media which many people have been talking of the longest time where he advances his own version of fox news by the way which many of his supporters have completely turned their backs on so as they say in th

i want you took that personally and it became a war between the jim acosta that c.n.n. jake tapper's at c.n.n. versus the president this has become way too personal for members of my profession there's no question i'm in the uncomfortable position of being a number trump or somebody who thinks the president should be defeated hope see is defeated and yet finds himself very sympathetic to the president when he complains about the media because steve is right my friend steve is right the president has got an unfair shake from this media and i think it's all people out there like me who don't think don't trust in a particular good president but we hate it that we have to defend the guy against an unfair media i've been in their shoes i want to i want to add value a lot of people are going to are you know you do the show in the press and so i am . sure this will come up fox news calling arizona on the night of the election with less than one percent of the votes counted now listen it may hold and ultimately if it does then fox says see we knew from the beginning our decisio

forbid if you are president, but i personally will treat you the way nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, jim acostacuomo and all the rest of them treated my president. i am not uniting around this man anymore than they united around our man. it ain't over until it's over. let's see what the supreme court does, and let's see what happens in these other cases, because they are vital. by the way, in 2,000 when we had the challenge, al gore had to 37 days in one state chasing. we have multiple states, the president needs more time. that's it. we want a great one. mark 11, 8:00 eastern, number one show on cable. house republicans warned us about the democrats plot to say okay it's with the elections mail-in ballots. at their predictions are coming to fruition, david bossi will join us and more. straight ahead. i'm searching for info on options trading, and look, it feels like i'm just wasting time. that's why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind, personalized education center. oh. their award-winning content is tailored to fit your investing goals and interests. and it learns with you, so as you b

let's go to our own jim acosta. what are you learning, jim?rter: i think the big headline is that the president is digging in. he is telling people around him that he would like to see these challenges of the count in these various states to continue perhaps into december, when the electors would certify their votes for president. that has the potential to drag this out for several more weeks. now, obviously these states are going to certify the results s. pass them on to news organizations and so on, and we believe to be able to report the winner, but the president is not accept that at this point. i will tell you, talking to my sources, erin, there are many people around the president who think it's just over. i talked to a senior adviser to this white house who told me it's over, but they have to be delicate about this. he has the biggest megaphone, and they're trying to be careful to not disturb the delicate bird, if you will. also sources are quietly backing away from the president. what happened last night was an absolute disaster. he of

. >>> let's go to the white house with our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us.he president's legal team is in complete disarray and support is crumbling, obviously, for his efforts to try to reverse this election lost. he apparently has very few options left. >> reporter: that's right. wolf, big breaking news out of the state of michigan. the state board of canvassers has certified their results for the 2020 election and getting this in the last several minutes. michigan 16 electoral votes go to joe biden. dramatic in michigan over whether republicans on that board in sta thabotaged the res in that stage. in the meantime, the president's biggest supporters are panning mr. trump's legal team as you reference d a few moments ago, wolf. they promise blockbuster stuff and then nothing happened. becoming something of a hermit and chief president trump steered clear of the cameras yet again and unusually silent on social media much of the day as more top republicans slam president trump's team to serve up nothing burgers in his quest to end the 2020 election. even tho

it's because of what jim acosta is saying.not win the state of pennsylvania, he cannot get to 270. he just can't. the numbers just are not there. that's why what happens today is so important. that's why you're seeing the trump campaign fighting so hard to keep in the game in pennsylvania. i'm not sure there's anything they can do about the sheer number of votes that there are, but they need pennsylvania. they also need a lot of these other states. they need to hold onto georgia, arizona, and they need to come back in arizona and come back in nevada, both of which seem like uphill battles. >> there's a reason why president trump is putting out unprecedented press releases like the one he did today with all caps saying stop the counting, because that's really the only way his campaign sees that he has a real shot at winning pennsylvania right now. >> we're standing by to hear from officials in georgia where there are now under 50,000 outstanding votes to be counted. president trump's lead over joe biden is shrinking. air force

jim acosta, thank you very much. we're going to come back to you as matters develop. it's sad to see the president tweeting these lies, one after the other after the other, but at this point, frankly, it's almost irrelevant. we're at the point now where one of these states, data is going to come in and we're going to be able to call it and there's not one of those states trending red right now. >> right, i agree. the only thing that is relevant, too, or the only people, those tweets, which are lies about things we won't even talk about, are people, the tens of millions of people who read his tweets and believe what he says. and, you know, we've lived through this kind of alternate universe for five years now, but when we're talking about one of the basic tenets of democracy, which is the peaceful transitio of power, it takes it to another level, and let's just hope that this is the transition period, or as one of his advisers told me yesterday, his grieving period, and he'll get to the other side when the numbers become more clear, because the people who listen to him

forbid if you are president, but i personally will treat you the way nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, jim acostaomo and all the rest of them treated my president. i am not uniting around this man anymore than they united around our man. it ain't over until it's over. let's see what the supreme court does, and let's see what happens in these other cases, because they are vital. by the way, in 2000 when we had the challenge, al gore had to 37 days in one state chasing. we have multiple states, the president needs more time. that's it. we want a great one. mark levin, 8:00 eastern, number one show on cable. house republicans warned us about the democrats plot with the elections mail-in ballots. their predictions are coming to fruition, david bossi will join us and more. straight ahead. ♪ ♪ >> sean: republicans have been warning about the promise of risk with massive mail-in voting. the house judiciary committee how to report about how democrats were attempting to sell in accuracy and delay. laying out how last-minute changes was a recipe ripe for disaster and would only increase the likelihood of e

let's go to jim acosta. you're learning about tipping point that led the trump administration to begin this formal transition process. what can you tell us? >> reporter: we're learning the general services administration did give the white house an early heads up that gsa official wrs preparing to ascertain that joe biden won the election. that heads up happened last friday. i'm told there were multiple advisers persuading the president to come to grips with reality that it's over. president trump did emerge today from some hiding he's been doing over here at the white house as he try to take credit for the rally on wall street earlier today in a bizarre couple of appearances in the white house briefing room and as he pardoned a turkey. >> i hereby grant you fall pardon. >> reporter: pardoning the thanksgiving turkey at the white house. president trump sounded like he would rather be on the campaign trail. fighting to win an election he already lost as he described covid-19 as the china virus. >> during this

. >> jim acosta reporting from the white house. let's get more on all of this.ur chief political analyst gloria borger and dana bash are with us. i want to step back and the stunning developments we have seen the past few days. president trump's refusal to concede. his secretary of state pompeo publicly disputing the outcome of the election, the white house budget office carrying on as if mr. trump actually won to name a few of these remarkable developments. have you ever seen anything like this? >> no, i haven't, wolf. it's anti-democratic and not a product of any american values that i grew up with. and i think it is unfortunate that we are watching a parade of government officials disregard a fair election and service of donald trump's ego. and what we are also watching is revenge purges fthe president of the united states and from the secretary of defense on down and resignations of people who serve in the government because they feel they cannot be a part of this folly any more. here we are sitting back and watching this and we are watching elected official

kim jim acosta now. >> we did hear from joe biden that the transition so far seems to be to be sincere. the outreach from the trump team biden says does seem sincere. >> reporter: when you talk to white house officials, the only thing they'll say is we'll refer back to the president's tweets. the president has been tweeting that he's not going to concede the election. it is hard to square that circle. if you look at what's happening inside the federal government right now, that gives you indication that things are moving along. i talked to anthony fauci earlier this evening, he's talking to aides with the b biden's transition team. i talked to the white house adviser's the president still has some unhelpful voices whispering in his ears. while we are seeing a peaceful transfer, by no means that is normal one. >> we did see the president a couple of times today. there were sort of bizarre appearances given that he began retweeting randy quad. what are we going to see from the president over the next 57 d day? what will he do or say or will he take questions? >> reporter: to quote cousin

i'm jim acosta. thanks very much for watching us. happy holidays.nt starts right now. >>> out front next, the president's claims about the election have no merit. that's from a trump appointed judge tonight as the president suffers another devastating setback in his efforts to overturn the election. >>> plus, breaking news tonight. the u.s. surpassing 13 million coronavirus cases as the cdc is now set to hold an emergency meeting to determine who should receive the vaccine first. >>> and a woman who just lost her father and aunt to coronavirus joins me. what she wants every american to know about the virus that is infecting record numbers of people tonight. let's go

was in contact with, saying they have been contact tracing, but we're told -- sources telling our jim acosta was actually asking staffers to deep his diagnosis a secret so it wouldn't become a big story. that's obviously not what happened, alisyn. >> ryan, when is the last time we saw president trump and what does he have on his schedule today? >> the last time is when he came out and spoke as the election results were still coming in and made a number of baseless claims about the election supposedly being stolen from him. that is the last time we saw him in person. of course, his twitter feed has been very active, but as of today, there are no public events on the schedule and that is very rare. it's unlike him go many days without being in public and making a statement. not even a campaign event but something that shows him still governing. he's still the president of the united states. we'll see if that changes. it's not like president trump go very long with letting a political opponent have the last word, so perhaps we'll see the president in some way, shank or form today, but as of rig

there's something i'm hung up on some of jim acosta's reporting, persuading trump to move on and concede was the off the rails press conference with giuliani last week, that is what it took for republicans to start calling over and saying, enough is enough. that is what it had to take to say enough is enough? so many of them saw exactly what everyone saw in the election results. but still stood by silently indulging the president's fantasies for the last three weeks. what do republicans do now? >> i would note, the vast majority are still standing by. >> good point. >> it took some republicans to view that press conference to come out and say something. i haven't heard mitch mcconnell congratulate president-elect biden on his victory and talk about how he plans to work with him in the biden administration. i haven't heard from a lot of republicans, actually, who have said what the president did here for the last two and a half weeks has just been completely against the grain. so yes, some republicans saw that press conference last week and said this is, as you noted, off the rails. but t

jim acosta is reporting that the trump campaign is declaring victory if the president is close to the electoral votes he needs to win. how should biden respond if trump tries to go to the cameras and lie to the nation claiming victory before we know the results. should biden ignore him? what should we do. >> i think what we all need to say, you can't declare yourself the winner. the counting does that. this a is we the people moment, not a me the people moment as the president sometimes does, and so any self-declaration of victory, if you haven't hit 270, is just delusional spin, of course it's serious because it's going to increase a potential conflict, a constitutional crisis, but the state should count, every vote should be counted and nobody should believe anybody who declares himself the winner before the votes are in, and this is going to take time. we haven't had an election during a pandemic before, people, and to your point, votes are always counted beyond election night. it's a very difficult problem for the country to confront a president who seems to be indicating a desire

let's start our coverage this hour with cnn's chief white house correspondent jim acosta. we just heard from the president in the rose garden, first time since his election defeat. update our viewers on what he said and didn't say. >> reporter: president trump is still engaging in this fantasy that he has a chance to win the 2020 election, but that's not true. it's over. he didn't win. but just a short while ago in the rose garden, the president took no questions and appeared to come out in front of the cameras to sue his damaged ego. he suggested there was a way he could remain in august after january. that's not happening. even officials in the trump administration say mr. trump's conspiracy theories are bogus when it comes to the election. while the president is full of bluster in front of the cameras, his close allies are telling a different story, that he's coming around to the reality that he has lost. >> reporter: welcome to the white house twilight zone where president trump is still publicly clinging to an alternate reality, the one where he can still win the 2020

it's the jim acosta model.ou don't have to be long on talent to really turn this into a lucrative career. the window for both of them is closing. the president is going to be president for very long so he has to engage as much as he can and say wait, i'm the president and the press, they're not going to have access to joe biden the way they have with this president. so there's never going to be exchanges like that. it's going to be very, very different and probably quite boring covering joe biden for this press pool. you've got to milk it while you can. it's like being an instagram model or tiktok star. you may have many followers now but next week you're going to be a hobo. howie: one of the dilemmas for the media is it's a mixed message. a few days ago the president you authorized the gsa to go forward with the biden transition. at the same time on twitter, in an interview like we saw and at the news conference he's insisting massive fraud, stolen election and all of that. we know which one the press is givin

. >>> our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. i understand you're getting new information from your sources? what are you learning? >> reporter: we are learning the general services administration gave the white house an erarly heads-up that they were going to ascertain that joe biden won the election and begin the transition process. my colleagues say that heads-up happened on friday and a white house official confirmed that gsa heads-up to me as well. we are reporting there were multiple advisers speaker wading the president to come to grips with the reality it's over and president trump emerged today as he tried to take credit for the rally on wall street we saw early in the afternoon in a bizarre appearance in the white house briefing room. >> i hereby grant you a full pardon. >> reporter: pardoning the thanksgiving turkey at the white house, president trump sounded like he would rather be back on the campaign trail fighting to win an election he has already lost. as he described covid-19 as the china virus. >> during this th