29. >> kaitlyn and artem!dancing with the stars" is like beyond glamour. >> reporter: an incredible all-star cast taking on the wild beast of "dancing with the stars." ♪ the circle of life >> reporter: tiger queen carol e baskin fiercely at never quite getting that perfect score. and midseason a terrifying moment for cheryl burke. >> oh, my god. are you okay? >> reporter: the seasoned dancer hitting the ground hard but pushing through and recovering to dance again. ♪ >> reporter: and a tragedy on week eight. >> i'm absolutely devastated e stars" has to end this way. >> reporter: jeannie mai leaving the competition early due to a ep epiglotis kye know sis. and the ultimate redemption story, the underdog nelly week after week pulling in low scores until it really matters. nelly rocking the freestyle and bringing in that perfect score. >> a 10! >> reporter: in the end, kaitlyn and artem's skills earned them the title and that dazzling mirror ball trophy. >> we are joined now by kaitlyn and artem, there they are,

kaitlyn, you are a star. and, joe, you keep us following the right star when it talks to the democrats about what they're supposed to be. that will be ever more valuable even now. i'm thankful for you. kaitlyn, what i am hearing was that trump was getting worried about his brand and that maybe it was time to do something different. what are you hearing about how we got here? >> i think that's certainly the concern with people around the president and that's why you saw them going to the president urging him to move forward with this sascertainment because you were starting to see a crack in gop support here. it's not big steps from republican lawmakers. it's small steps. you started to see more and more people come forward saying that this is something that needed to happen. so of course the way the president framed it in his tweet shortly after this letter was sent to the biden team by gsa saying this is actually going to happen, the president makes it sound like he is allowing it to happen, like he is autho

david axelrod, kaitlyn collins. so kaitlyn, we laid out some of the state of play there. we understand what's going on. we saw "the new york times" reporting. this idea that the president has plans of what he wants to do in these 65 days that are almost scarier than what he wants to do to contest the election, what are you hearing? >> well, the president has obviously been looking to make a lot of changes. that started with last monday when he started purging the leadership at the pentagon. but of course the question is now what are they going to do in the next two months? and so that has a range of topics where it's the president continuing to fight the results of this election, urging his team to keep this fight going, even though we see as it's playing out in each of the different courts in different states their chances are dwindling, their chances of success that is. so we're already seeing the struggles they're facing there. but you have to look at what the question is. what does the president do in the next two months. so the question of the transition is more than

michael, kaitlyn, grateful for the reporting. the president of the united states tweeting a little more than a half hour ago he won. everything after that he won is a lie about rigged elections and so on, but we will see if the president is ready. ready to acknowledge it publicly and do the right thing and get along with the transition. up next, the stunning co-vid surge. new cases are at new highs and rising hospitalizations now causing major stress. ♪ ♪ ride... ♪ relax... now you're cloud surfing (record scratch) ♪ ride... ♪ relax... americans from both parties. turned out to vote in numbers like we haven't seen in a hundred years. and election officials counted those votes carefully, transparently and in accordance with the law. so, no matter who you voted for, if you cast a ballot, or counted them. thank you for showing the world that even in times like these, america is still going strong. thank you for showing the world that even in times like these, when panhe doesn't justs mmake a pizza. he uses fresh, clean ingredients t

thank you so much, kaitlyn. appreciate it, i will see you soon. >> you heard the warning from president elect biden. more people may die if the president keeps stalling the transition, are things about to get much worse? much, much worse? can we stop the spread and just mask up? judging by this scene in the senate today, not any time soon. >> i would start by asking the presiding officer to please wear a mask as he speaks and people are below him, i cannot tell you what to do. i know the behavior -- >> i don't wear a mask when i'm speaking like most senators. i don't need your instruction -- >> i know you don't need my instruction. but there's clearly not much interest in the body in public health had. a flexible wealth plan. you'll have access to tax-smart investing strategies, and with brokerage accounts online trades are commission free. personalized advice. unmatched value. at fidelity, you can have both. unmatched value. (children laughing) ♪ (music swells) ♪ ♪ (music fades) (exhales) experience the power o

, as kaitlyn indicated, some complaints are very easy to remediate. it's as simple as removing a chair or sandwich board. but in an instance, where they have to order diverters, it may take longer and that would constitute some of the complaints we're still working on closing. our team will go on the site and review the occupancy, whether that's just simply placement of furniture or a structure in the public right-of-way. and if they determine there is a violation of the public works order or the shared space program guidelines, they may issue a notice of correction. notice of correction, not like a harsh punitive measure. there is no fine associated with it, but it is formal documentation of what the deficiency is on site. it's trackable. it can escalate to a notice of violation which is in fact a punitive measure and may have fines associated. we have not -- of the ultimate -- revocation of the permit, if we had someone that was unwilling to comply with the directives given to them in the correction notice and subsequent notice of violation, and if

>> well, again, look kaitlyn to speak to this as well as i ask.f migrant children from this country under of cover of covid with little to no access to due process, legal counsel, and just recently a federal court obviously said that the federal government, the trump administration, must stop doing that. that's just the tip of the iceberg. even before covid -- right now with covid they are carrying out things they quantitied to car w during the separation policy. the most profound legacy and impact, you've heard me say before, the torture according the human rights of 5,500 children. child abuse according to the american academy of pediatric medicine and rejected also according to sources we spoke to fully negotiated settlement agreement to provide mental health care for the children they tortured after it had been approved by department of justice at the highest levels. >> kaitlyn, you did a story on the fact not only has the u.s. sort of abused and taken advantage of children, minors at the border, also deported them to countries they did not co

kaitlyn collins, alex, both here. night you have to follow me after i go off on all this crazy stuff. it is jarring and flooring. good evening to both of you. the president firing the director of the agency that says this election was the most secure in american history. first off, tell me about that. >> this is not shocking because even this official, chris sperktsd to be fired. but of course, the idea that the president is firing someone for simply telling the truth about what happened in this election, it should still stun people. and he worked in the george w. bush administration, left to be an executive in microsoft. mainly the the president himself tied it to others saying last week, the 2020 election was one of the most secure in history. what the president has done, it isn't tro. he nationally denied that. it was his enadministration day in and day out in the two weeks since the election. he expected to be fired. tonight he fired through. the president firing someone in his administration simply because they s

cnn's kaitlyn collins reports. >> reporter: while refusing to admit to the tradition of conceding. >> corn, i here by grant you a full pardon. thank you, corn. >> reporter: trump granting leniency to two turkeys in the rose garden ahead of the thanksgiving holiday while making only a veiled reference to the presidential transition underway. >> america first. shouldn't go away from that. america first. >> reporter: it was his second appearance in front of cameras after the white house gave reporters a two-minute notice for a one-minute statement. >> the stock market has just broken 30,000. never been broken. that's a sacred number 306789,000. nobody thought they would ever see it. >> reporter: in the briefing room trump taughted the number. >> thank you very much, everybody. thank you. >> mr. president -- >> mr. president -- >> it was the president's first appearance in front of cameras since the general services administration announced the transition to the biden administration can now formally begin, including coordination between officials like hhs alex a czar and the incoming pand

kaitlyn has great potential.ld probably just say thank you right now. because it did light a bit of a fire underneath us and i'm glad we could break through that and impress them, and carrie ann especially. >> reporter: but ultimately the backstreet boy star couldn't last another week. >> i learned really quickly within the first few weeks that, yes, it's a dance competition, but there's way more to it than that. those that have gone and those that are still here moving forward, i wish everybody the best of luck and still it's a close race. >> yeah. >> may the best man or woman. >> yeah. >> win that mirror ball. >> exactly. >> and then ship it to me and cheryl's house. >> reporter: well, their time in the ballroom might be over, but it's not over for aj and cheryl. they're keeping their partnership with a podcast called "pretty messed up." aj says after his first solo album drops this year, he wants cheryl to dance this one of his music videos. michael? >> i love it. riva loved that card too. all right, lara, tha

we get more from kaitlyn collins at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, boris and laura.here we find the white house today is an interesting walking contradiction, almost, where president trump is insisting they're going to push forward with these legal challenges to the outcome of the election, but the rest of his administration appears to be moving on with the transition. president-elect joe biden told nbc news last night that his chief of staff has spoken with the president's chief of staff, mark meadows, about moving forward. he has not spoken to president trump yet, but it comes as the white house has formally signed off on biden getting that president's daily brief, that ever important intelligence assessment that keeps u.s. leaders up to date on what the national security threats are facing the world and something joe biden has been denied the last three weeks since the election. now he is formally going to get it and he expects it could come as soon as today. that comes as the other officials in the administration are moving forward, starting to have their convers

kaitlyn, the president is actively obstructing the president-elect. rudy giuliani is one piece of that. it's not just a side show, it's dangerous. >> that's the president's legal team who came out and made baseless allegations about voter fraud. in court rudy giuliani told a judge he was not alleging fraud happened just that there was a fraudulent process. that's what he said today as he was alleging fraud in pennsylvania, tling to offer any evidence as you saw. attorney after attorney tried to come out and make these sometimes wild acvaluaticusatiot what happened. to be clear you watch rudy giuliani in the press conference, hair dye dripping down his face, others talking about hugo chavez, it's easy to laugh it off and see it as silly, whaley what the president is trying to do even though we haven't seen him lately, he's trying to divert the process. they have moved on from court and said recounts didn't work in their favor. now you're seeing the president take this extraordinary move of inviting republican michigan state lawmakers to the white house

i want to go straight to kaitlyn collins at the white house. what more are you learning?he president wants to take this show on the road. what he's been

i want to get straight to kaitlyn collins at the white house. it is like i'm not sure if they think we're stupid. it is more that they think no one is watching what they're doing. what can you tell us about this meeting perhaps in pennsylvania with pennsylvania lawmakers? >> i think it is plainly obvious to see why the president is inviting these lawmakers here. and i think the lawmakers, these legislators are aware of what is going on only days before their state is set to certify joe biden's win and make it official. if you want to see what the white house thinks, you saw earlier, it is not an advocacy meeting but this comes only days before the deadline. this was not put on the president's official schedule. instead we found out about it through reporting and hearing from these legislators in the state. and now we know they are considering inviting more to this meeting. we were told no one from the campaign would be there. therefore, it won't be a political meeting talking about what the campaign's efforts have been to overturn the election r

our white house correspondent is kaitlyn collins. good evening to you. good to see you. wow, a rainy night there in d.c. in front of the white house. it is pouring. >> i'm here for you. >> you arism see that. and i appreciate it. president trump is get go the message that there is no fraud. in 70 days, he needs to leave the white house. is he getting it finally? >> he is getting it. from what we've heard from sources who are meeting with the president constantly that on the phone with him, he understands he's lost this election and joe biden is going to be the next president. he is not saying it publicly. instead he is having his supporters, his aides who work for hip come out and push this idea about fraud without any evidence behind those allegations that they've been pushing. so the question is how long is the president going to keep this charade up? when you talk to people, they say it could be a found more weeks, or a few more days but no one has an idea how long the president will keep this up. it will be up to the president. he's the one continuing to push it. i t

i want to go straight to kaitlyn collins at the white house. what more are you learning? >> no surprise that the president wants to take this show on the road. what he's been tweeting behind closed doors for the last several days ever since cnn and other outlets called this race for joe biden. the president has continued to push these baseless accusations that the selection fraudulent and it has been stolen without providing any evidence from his campaign or campaign officials with their claims and voter fraud and what has been happening if these critical states where the president has been lagging behind. now they're planning these rallies where the president can go on the road, talk about what he's been saying here. and that's a message that could resonate with his supporters who believe what the president says. despite that, despite the push by the president and his allies, we've talked to state officials, we've talked to election administrators, county fwls these allegations from the president and his campaign and of course, the thing is, if they're alleging this frau

mirror ball champs kaitlyn bristowe and artem.see it coming up right here on "good morning america." >> when you're on the show, do you get to interact with the other dance partners? do you get to the other celebrities or artem who won last night? >> no, yeah, not, well, artem i danced with in a trio because i got to face to face with him a lot. but, yes, you get to see them, but, you know, it's a competition. it's not -- i imagine in the pandemic not as much either. >> just waving from afar. nice job. well, congratulations to those folks. it's always fun to see. ginger, yeah, we'll see you at 7:00. thank you. >>> new at 6:00, here's a young man who is making a difference in the world. he just turned 8 and while most second graders might be focusing on birthday gift s he is paying it forward. a bullying prevention month at his school in maryland and pivoted making care packages for front line workers. that enabled him and his family to set opcommunity pantry. now he's organizing two long haul trips to take dozens of thanksgiving m

. >> with us this sunday to kick off the conversation, share the reporting and insights, kaitlyn cot collins and jonathan. the president is running against the coronavirus and heading into the weekend, dr. anthony fauci giving the most blunt interview yet that he knows what he's doing. this is from the washington post. dr. fauci said former vice president joe biden's campaign is taking it seriously from a public health perspective. trump, dr. fauci said, is looking at it from a different perspective. he said that perspective was the economy and reopening the country. dr. fauci saying right there joe biden has a public health plan about the coronavirus and the president does not. two days before america votes. >> it's a scathing indictment of the way the president handled this. it's been clear dr. fauci and the president have not agreed about the approach for the pandemic for several months. to see it put in those terms as voters are casting ballots and making this decision and we know the pandemic is hanging over all of this. that is not what president trump wanted. for several month

. >> i think part of kaitlyn, what jonathan is talking there is there are going to be policies that happenedhings that arie going to be things legislated inside of congress given that the balance still hangs in georgia. what happens if republicans maintain control of the senate and biden is trying to push through an ambitious and progressive immigration agenda? >> so if republicans maintain control of the senate, then you're going to see president-elect biden walk into a situation a lot like president obama did. remember that in the early years of his administration, he pursued this law and order agenda, hoping to get this goodwill from republican lawmakers that was going to allow him to carry through comprehensive immigration reform. and we all know where that went. it didn't good anywhere. and some of the biggest critiques that his administration ended up focusing were for those early years and that harsh policy that was carried out, you know, that we've been talking about. so i think if we see the republicans maintain control of the senate, joe biden's options are very much to pursue and

but i will say that kaitlyn and i, in our attempt to share enforcement related information with this group really has to drawdown on sharing information for this group as opposed to the attorney's office under the cert umbrella, so what you'll be seeing is violations to the health order that are related to providing entertainment or amplified sound. so we're really trying to draw that line. it's pretty challenging because there are violations beyond, for example, okay, folks are not being offered a meal with drinks? that's not something we would be sharing with this group, but say, for example, a d.j. is causing a dance party, we would share that with this group. that's kind of an interesting line that we're going to try to abide by with the condition hearing, so we can get into that more. i think if you want to talk about specific venues, that would be the agenda item. >> yeah, that makes sense. i'll bring it up after we see the report. it's also the d.j. causes a dance party. it's like that chicken and the egg. okay. any other comments or questions from the commissioners? all right

kaitlyn huey burns took her cbs cameras through the turnstyle. >> come on, are you ready to vote? average polling place. >> fill this out for me. >> reporter: forget cramped community centers, church basements and school cafeterias, voting this year is getting a major league upgrade. with the pandemic straining resources to conduct elections, the professional sports teams stepped up to the plate to fill urgent need. here in detroit, at the pistons performance center, you can vote early by dropping off your ballot in a secure drop box. and here in atlanta, state farm arena was the largest early voting location. it's a massive space that allows for social distancing. it's close to transportation and they offer free parking. >> that's a win/win for everyone. and they have loaned had -- they have loaned their people. so is, voters, you know, easy peasy for them. >> it was easiest thing ever. so happy. >> the attitude of the people is like if you went to a game. >> it been so long since we have been able to go to any games or anything. it's nice being in there and reminded me on good t

kaitlyn and her tango with a twist. justina's flash dance jazz.ur couples take the stage to see who will be crowned champion. >> i have the butterflies, nerves, everything. been able . i'm so excited. >> reporter: each couple will perform ♪ don't you know that you're toxic ♪ >> reporter: then they break it down with the free style, a dance that nelly is pumped about. >> all we can do is what we've been doing. just go out and let it hang out, do our best. >> free style is going to be his best dance ever. he'll just do what he does best. no one thought nelly was going to make it this far. he's here. i'm nervous. i think he's got what it takes. >> reporter: in the end it's up to you, the viewer, who goes home a winner. >> the winners are the ones that tap into the spirit of america, who are, like -- they want to see somebody make a transformation. they want to see somebody have a breakthrough. >> let's dance! >> so here we go. the series finale for "dancing with the stars" season 29 tonight 8:00 p.m. eastern. george, i'll be watching. >> season 29. b

kaitlyn?ys talk about the legal strategy because this legal strategy came about because after fox news called arizona for joe biden last night, something we should know cnn has not done yet, that's when the president went this panic mode with aids after thinking he was going to win and pull this off that he instructed him to start filing these lawsuits and start pursuing litigation we have seen play out all day. that is what campaign aids have spent the day doing. some have conceded in part, jake, so they can buy themselves more time as they are waiting on votes to come in. the other thing the president has spent the day doing since we have not seen him in person today and we are not expecting any appearances from him, he is angrily calling republican governors as he is trying to will what is happening and what we are seeing playing out from what is happening. that includes arizona, georgia and ron desantis from florida. he has been angrily calling him. of course florida is a different situati

let's bring in kaitlyn collins obviously at the white house covering those comments.them after he left the podium as is sometimes the case? are they saying, oh, yeah, yeah, fraud, that's what this is? >> reporter: no backing off. this is what they were waiting to do. president trump would look like he was ahead and then as the mail-in ballots came in it was going to potentially tip it in joe biden's favor. this is basically what the president's campaign aides had been planning on happening. i don't think they expected it happening as quickly as the president was prematurely claiming victory. that is primarily what the president denied a few days ago to reporters that he was going to do. he said he would not come out and declare victory before it was time. now he has done that with votes still being counted. the question, of course, is the criticism we're seeing from the president's own allies. as mark preston was pointing out, people like chris christie is talking about how unwise what the president said in the wee hours of morning said. you saw it in stark contrast t