cochair of the transition team has -- is ted kaufman who has a history with biden. it was passed in 2015. host: and served in joe biden's seat for a stretch in the u.s. senate. karen: it was an interim appointment. exactly. team has transition team's ready. what they are doing is looking at possible nominees for various positions. presumably, they are looking at getting a white house staff put in order. soon that they will name a chief of staff or vice president biden and they continue to do other things. what they cannot do is get -- what they are unable to do is get access to the various agencies that have in many cases big briefing books ready for the new administration. those briefing books were due in the fall. they are sitting at the agencies ready to brief the new administration and ready to welcome the agency review team, but the teams cannot gain access that vice ascertained president bryden is the president-elect. statutory is the obligation of government agencies to prepare for transition? the statuteshat say for government agencies is that -- ,hat is sup

nbc's coury kaufman joining us from eau claire, wisconsin, the western part of the state. good morning to you, cory. what's the situation you're seeing on the ground? >> reporter: hey, guys, good morning. the situation is dire, as the governor describes it. wisconsin here, in this -- we're talking the entire state, which we'll get into -- but they are hitting records in hospitalizations, in cases, and in deaths, all at once. you hear about some states that are increasing cases but not necessarily deaths. that is not the case here in wisconsin. deaths are rising at a rapid rate. and that 37 percentage rate that you were talking about, positivity rate from tests, that is also particularly alarming when you think about new york, which had a 20% to 25% positivity rate at its peak, almost double that 20% currently right now in the state of wisconsin. more than 300,000 cases now here and more than 2,000 deaths as that continues to rise. and you can see the peak. i'll show you the graph where you can see just how vertical that spike is starting to get in this state. the governor

ted kaufman was a senator from delaware, and during his tenure, he worked on transitions. and in fact, the 2015 transition act is named after him, that ted kaufman and mike levitt, presidential transitions improvements act. so that act said that these councils must be created. and there are other parts of the government that also have to provide information that will affect that. and what has to happen now within his -- biden's organization is setting up first a transition-making system, how are you going to work with these kinds of information that the president wants? and that means you set up your white house staff and that comes first before you select your cabinet skraecretaries. and then you're setting your policies. and that he did during the campaign. that makes your transition a lot easier if you can do that. bush was able, even though he had only 37 days, he was able to set up his priorities, because they were the things that he talked about during the campaign. and so here, what he talked about was the pandemic, the economy, and then racial justice. >> so the in

they have a phenomenal leadership there in ted kaufman who knows this arena extremely well and is close to president-elect biden and has no ambition himself, i trifecta perfect person. the gsa has been cooperating up until now, but we are in a new phase, a phase that requires engagement with the incumbent government, mainly the career workforce. that is not happening and that's a bad thing. host: you talked about our safety. as the week was ending, and into the weekend, a number of republican senators and people like former chief of staff john kelly are calling on in biden team to be briefed these security briefings, for example the presidential daily briefings and things like that. why are those so essential to the new team coming in? max: it goes back to what the job will be on january 20. it involves handling a myriad of problems we know about like responding to the pandemic and rebuilding the economy, but also problems that are undoubtedly around the corner and not yet on our doorstep. the best example was the transition to president bush in 2000 where he experienced a shortened tra

they have a phenomenal leadership there in ted kaufman the nose this arena extremely well who is close to president-elect biden and this no ambition himself. he's a trifecta perfect person. the gsa has been cooperating up until now but we are in a new phase, a phase that requires engagement with the incumbent government mainly for career workforce that's and happen yet and that thehe batting. >> host:en talked about our safety. as the week was independent of the weekend really a number of republican senators and people like former chief of staff john kelly are now calling on the biden team to be briefed in these transitions, the security briefings, for example, the presidential daily briefings and things like that. why are those so essential to the neweam coming in? >> guest: again it comes back to what the job will be on january 20 and its hane ada problems in response the paemic of rebuilding the economy and problemshat undoubtedly around the corner at are not yet on our doorstep but are onheir way. the best historical example of this was the transitn to president bush in 2000 where

we'll see. >> biden was confident he could talk his way into voters' hearts but what kaufman saw wasn labor day we did a big time poll. you know what the number was? 47% boggs, 19% for biden. >> reporter: but it was the first year 18-year-olds could vote and young voters saw a candidate who was promising that he understands what's happening today. 50 years later this time as a political elder trying to connect with young voters, it's still his mantra. >> let's go, joe. >> they have this funny feeling cale boggs, his heart wasn't into it. >> then we snuck up on him. boggs, this was the nixon landslide. everybody expected no democrat to win and that was the truth. >> we won by a rousing 3100 votes. >> reporter: i'm sure the president-elect is very relieved to have secured a wider margin in the 2020 presidential race to the tune of more than 5 million votes. >> gloria, thank you. you can learn more about joe biden's life and career in our cnn documentary, joe biden's long journey. that airs tonight at 10 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. >>> still to come, the u.s. reported another day of

ted kaufman was a part of that effort as well. transitions are better planned now than in the past. we will transition. we will transition effectively. biden started four or five months ago planning this. that is different. >> right. >> it would clearly be better if there were cooperation between the two sides. >> i know you were for and romney as well. we know he announced his covid task force and has met with them and laid out priorities. in addition to that his website is full on with the administration's priorities, covid, climate change. transition has four jobs. one, to put a team on the field and to implement the policies that the candidate running for president made to the american people. writing drafts of laws and executive orders. all of that has been going on for some time behind the scenes. the third thing, working with congress to be able to begin to create beach heads of support. and the care and the keeping of the president-elect between now and the inauguration. you take something like national security. it would be helpful. it is a valuable thing but not an essenti

kaufman became interested in singing at an early age and later studied in munich a global career wasn't really on the cards. as a student, he was a happy go lucky guy. he had a 1000 different interests, sports and cooking, and of course, music and technique and so on. he wasn't an extraordinarily diligent or industrious student. in other words, his 1st engagements were in sabra can shoot, got and heidelberg, early on health money in body operatic hero and was also idolized in real life. he's even citizenry. corporate house from 2001 to 2009, formative his work began to take him around the world. midland, new york, london, and to the big festivals, including the iconic, by roy it with lohengrin, am, was and to salzburg of course, with the daily oh, universe come from monk, so called the great tenor roles and was internationally celebrated. the feature is incredibly versatile in terms of his repertoire, skipped a few singers are as adept in german, french, and italian 3, whether it's opera or leader. he's just as versatile stylistically confident and musically vivacious. in everything he

cochair of the transition team has -- is ted kaufman who has a history with biden. it was passed in 2015. host: and served in joe biden's seat for a stretch in the u.s. senate. karen: it was an interim appointment. exactly. the biden team has transition team's ready. what they are doing is looking at possible nominees for various positions. presumably, they are looking at getting a white house staff put in order. name a expect they would chief of staff and continue to do those other things. what they can't do, getting more money and office space would be useful but they are unable to do is to get access to various agencies. they have big briefing books ready for the new administration. they are sitting in the agencies ready to brief new administration but those teams cannot gain access until miss murphy ascertains that president biden is president-elect. host: what is-- the statutory agency? what is supposed to happen, the current government agencies have to at the beginning of a presidential election year are asked to start the planning for the transition. the tran

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helmut do it seems it is a pianist and professor who's known kaufman fullest 30 s. as of the i've often admired him. he has incredible discipline. he's invited by friends who've bought a really rare and excellent wine just for him. he'll apologize and say that he can't drink because he's singing the next day, like a neat thing and he really won't be someone who when he has a certain job to do it will stick by the rules he set for himself no matter what. temptation might come along the way. that's crucial if you want a career like his or good at it. opera is considered elitist. some say, why put so much into opera when we have a climate catastrophe in the pandemic and wars? why do we need opera? you know, i think of fish to go well, i wouldn't say that it's more important than putting bread on the table. that is elitist, it does cost a lot of money. it's not a form of art. it's created. one segment is available forever. you know, like the visual arts at the same time, it's such a fascinating art form. otherwise, it wouldn't have lasted over the centuries. and allows

kaufman. there's anything you want to say on behalf of zoox, please proceed. and i think what you've heard here today is that safety and traffic congestion are on the top of the mind of this commission and our staff. so maybe you can also just respond for how we can avoid a situation where a.v. passenger services are creating the same kind of concerns that we've seen from t.m.c.s, namely repeat problems like pick-up and drop-offs in travel lanes, bus stops, and also how we're anticipating the -- whether or not this is going to lead to an increase or decrease in vehicles miles traveled. and what assures that -- assurances that we have, as we heard from sfmta staff, are going to service folks with disabilities and seniors, which i think has been a consistent issue that we have impressed upon taxis for decades and impressed upon the t.m.c. industry. just some thoughts that you might want to ruminate on. again as you heard from my colleagues, thank you very much to zoox for your appearance this morning -- this afternoon now. >> it is now afternoon. and chair peski

msnbc's cory kaufman is live in wisconsin, one of the hotspots. there is concern covid cases will spike even after this weekend is all done with. >> reporter: yeah, that's the big concern right now is that in addition to the fact that everybody has been gathering for the holidays, like it was during the summer, this wintertime could actually make it worse, because everybody will be gathering indoors and continuing going out on those holiday parties. this is really the unofficial start to the holiday season now. and it's estimated that only 10% of travelers did not travel this year, compared to last year. it was just down 10%. it's not really a lot when you compare the fact that this is a pandemic year. so as you mentioned, travel is a big concern. now, when it comes to the state of wisconsin here, they are now in a five-day downward trend, which is a bit of good news, but officials say it's just too soon to tell if that's going to stick, because it could be a lag in testing from the holiday. in addition, this state remains the sixth highest per ca

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veteran was escorted on the plane and took separate 40-minute flights today with pilot jeff could have kaufman. he joked saying if he needed with a prayer he could fly the plane but when he was asked what veterans day means to him is when he really got emotional. take a listen. >> i think of all the guys that they are laughing and jumping and we would have a glass of wine at night and play some cards. we would talk about flying tomorrow and what happened today. but some of them didn't come back a few days later and what i'm thinking about now. i think about it often. >> reporter: and the plane that both of these veterans had a chance to fly in, they are really no stranger to partnering with veterans. last year this plane flew to france for the anniversary of d-day. back out here live on the hangar. it was such an honor to see those individuals. mr. toterman is circling back and their on their way back down and really a special day for them. they are both very excited about this experience. just a really, really magical day for both of them. live in santa rosa, cierra johnson, for nbc news area

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kaufman. there's anything you want to say on behalf of zoox, please proceed. and i think what you've heard here today is that safety and traffic congestion are on the top of the mind of this commission and our staff. so maybe you can also just respond for how we can avoid a situation where a.v. passenger services are creating the same kind of concerns that we've seen from t.m.c.s, namely repeat problems like pick-up and drop-offs in travel lanes, bus stops, and also how we're anticipating the -- whether or not this is going to lead to an increase or decrease in vehicles miles traveled. and what assures that -- assurances that we have, as we heard from sfmta staff, are going to service folks with disabilities and seniors, which i think has been a consistent issue that we have impressed upon taxis for decades and impressed upon the t.m.c. industry. just some thoughts that you might want to ruminate on. again as you heard from my colleagues, thank you very much to zoox for your appearance this morning -- this afternoon now. >> it is now afternoon. and chair peski

joining me from manila is robert kaufman, head of the international federation of the red cross in theews. i actually went to cover a typhoon seven years ago, and just understanding the devastation that you're facing now, it's difficult to imagine trying to help people in a time of social distancing and covid. how is it affecting the relief efforts ? how is it affecting the relief efforts? well, it is certainly complicating its, and i think the people are challenged. and if you've been to the philippines before and you've covered it, you know these communities are use to storm after storm, but you know, you mentioned typhoons, but just a storm, but you know, you mentioned typhoons, butjust a week before one hits, another also had the same community as a tropical storm, so people were pretty tired and devastated from three successive typhoons and a pandemic. how are you managing to get food and shelter into the areas? are you managing to airlift a lot of the stuff in? well, thankfully, the red cross is incredibly capable and well—prepared organisation, and the federation of red cross, w

coronavirus pandemic so this is the person movie going to see his transition team is headed by ted kaufman now he's the man who actually took over from joe biden as a senator to delaware when joe biden became the vice president so he's very close to biden obviously that is important in terms of affecting the transition but there's one other point that i've got to mention in all these details that we are dealing with is that another form of history is going to be made when joe biden goes into the white house he's got a german shepherd dog called major which comes from a rescue shelter here in wilmington and it will be the. the 1st rescue dog to inhabit the white house of hugo. with the latest from wilmington in delaware thank you. all people gathering there in delaware to wait waiting to hear joe biden's speech like they're gathering in cities across the united states are the show castro is that black lives matter plaza out in front of the white house where there are scenes of celebration a stark contrast to the mass protests seen in that same plaza over recent months. within minutes of the

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we'll see. >> biden was confident he could talk his way into voters' hearts but what kaufman saw wasor day, we did a big time polling. you know what the number was? 47% for boggs, 19% for biden. >> but it was also the first year 18-year-olds could vote and young voters saw a candidate who was promising that he understands what's happening today. 50 years later, this time as a political elder trying to connect with young voters, it's still his mantra. >> they have a funny feeling that kale boggs just his heart wasn't in it. he'd been talked into running one more time by richard nixon. >> joe wants to talk to you for a few minutes and vote that democratic ticket november. >> and then. >> we snuck up on him. boggs, this is a nixon landslide year. nobody expected a democrat to win and that was the truth. >> we won by 3,100 votes. >> on election night, i remember as if it was yesterday. i said, i will never, ever think anything is impossible again in my entire life. ♪ happy birthday >> he turned 30, the eligible age to serve three weeks later. he and neilia already had a picture perfect y

>> we are hearing that -- his transition is being headed by ted kaufman, and nobody is more prepared a transition. he understands the process intimately. i think one of the real changes we are facing here as we move from a trump to a biden administration is joe biden's years of service in washington has given him access to and personal relationships with experts in so many areas. so we have heard already a number of different names. but i think the idea here is number one, expertise. he wants experts focusing on covid, on the economy. he wants to listen to scientists. and the other thing, we are reachinghat he may be across the isle for some of the cabinet departments as well. tom: we have to get to january 20. i saw one medical expert today not to just but try to frame out 100 thousand more deaths before we get to the inauguration. he said that very carefully. what would you suggest we will see from dr. birx, dr. fauci, and others of the president -- of the present administration? nne: joe biden has said that he hopes that dr. fauci will stay with him as he becomes president january

ground where we throw all our money mark but now people have accepted that yes but nephrite part of kaufmandarkening is their. then are not a far colony. some years ago also hilma than launched a campaign to get people across daily to go out and count and identify butterflies near their homes every september. that has really boosted public awareness and enthusiasm to do something to have. one thing. called a door is in place and not just being in place once we have substantial numbers it did 100 but of labrador that's across the city we were definitely see increases in the population especially for. 3 or. butterfly species that are dispersing if there are $100.00 laid by a butterfly and another butterfly only whoville big or dull but of layers on their own the rest $98.00 will be eaten. and many more larvae are killed by pesticides some people consider the little creatures unwelcome guests in their garden think of all the glorious butterflies they might have because. now alongside butterflies every living being on the planet. polluted the long term effects. to be devastating if pollution is

narrative history is there a kind of humor but the storytelling so you would almost need like a charlie kaufmanor spike jones to adapt it if you get to it he would have to get the town right because it's getting into a lot of serious stuff but it's the genre of the tall tale. >> i think voice is important. for this book i thought of it in the back of my head as the barnum voice. it was always filtering. >> bennett, if you could pull up slide number eight. if you look at these guys i find it uncanny. and obviously jared lehto has that kind of chaotic charisma. but i'm really struck. i feel like there is a genetic tie that only needs to be traced. are there any other questions? we want to get something before we close out. a. >> we have a few more here that have been coming in. i am hearing paul -- >> we are getting a lot of questions on the connections between right now and democracy and what -- but there's one question i would like you to talk about and it's regarding the abolitionist beliefs, and i was hoping you could talk about how it would shift in certain respects but there seem to be othe

ted kaufman and others working, starting in the summer to start building out the team. i spoke with both of them about what they've been doing behind the scenes to get ready. here's a few things they told me. they already have 4300 individuals identified to start filling some of the positions to be filled. they've also preemptively cleared through security measures some of the individual who is will go into the federal agencies to take stock of what needs to be done starting january 20th. don't expect to see cabinet nominations soon. their priority is filling out the west wing jobs, also getting names put forward for some of the nonsenate confirmable positions and they're putting a premium on all the positions that will help tackle the pandemic. that's why you're seeing biden today announcing his 12 member pandemic task force. it's chaired by the former surgeon general, david kessler as well as marsella munez smith. and rick bright, the ousd whistleblower sounding the alarm about in his view the trump administration not taking the pandemic seriously enough. also an arch

. >> >> steven kaufman joins us.great to have you on the program this morning you were recount attorney for al gore's campaign in florida following the 2000 presidential election how does this campaign, this election cycle feel compared to then are there similarities that stick out to you that are useful for investors to be aware of heading into tuesday >> yeah, as i see what's happening right now is the republicans are turning to their 2000 florida playbook and using that as a basis for the orchestrated effort we're seeing right now by the president and the republicans to undermine the election process >> president trump told reporters over the weekend, a quote, we're going to go in as soon as that election is over, we're going in with our lawyers. what happens how does it play out if president trump declares victory on election night before all the votes are counted? >> i think the real key here is, you know, the critical issue this time around is the vote-by-mail ballots and the president has done everything in hi

you almost need like charlie kaufman or spike jones to adapted it to get to it. you have to get the talent right because it's serious, a lot of serious stuff but you're trying -- the strang, a genre of the tall tale almost play with that element. >> well, i think voice is important. you're such a wonderful voice writer, donovan. this book i just thought of it in the back of my head as the barn and voice. anything i ever arvida pt barnum sins but i just always thought about it was voice filtering like the barnum voice, the phrase was always of their. >> who would play strang? >> bennett, if you could call up slide eight. i don't know who would play strang but here's what my son julian, , beijing else suggeste. here we go. >> there we go. >> that's jared leto. if you look at the nose of these two guys and the eyes, i find it uncanny and jerry lehto has a kind of chaotic charisma at a think strang might've had. i really struck. i feel like there's a genetic tie here, that only needs to be traced. are there any other questions? donovan and i want to get some before w

ted kaufman is running his transition.slidell in the white house. i think what you'll see now with the transition is they have to get landing teams in every department as well. but i agree with rahm, the thing we recommended to trump in 2016 was decide who your chief of staff is going to be, get your senior white house people in place, and then have them be part of the decision-making process on how you put a cabinet together while they're also getting your agenda ready to go. >> thanks very much. we'll be right back. back off! you're not welcome here! get out of my face! hpv can cause certain cancers when your child grows up. get in its way. hpv can affect males and females... and there's no way to predict who will or won't clear the virus. but you can help protect your child by taking a first step. the cdc recommends hpv vaccination at age 11 or 12 to help protect against certain cancers. hey cancer! not... my... child. don't wait... talk to your child's doctor about hpv vaccination today. black friday deals that are too

>>i think courts a fairly well dispensed was most of stephen kaufman was on the team representing al gore after the 2000 presidential election. he says the trump campaign's lack of evidence in their filings is telling these. >>lawsuits are being filed in bad was no real them to delay. the outcome of the election. >>president elect joe biden's transition team nonetheless is pushing for access to national security briefings as well as updated information on the covid-19 pandemic. >>there are areas where as much as president like been working on policy issues from national security to health for you need real time information to deal with crises of the moment there are so on a covid front like access to ongoing work on distribution plans of vaccine development that engagement directly with the agencies would significantly help our to govern obviously at this pivotal time and as we've seen thousands seen this week thousands of americans have lost their lives to covid the current president is absent from that conversation you know it's imperative that our team and our experts have that ac

guy running the transition team for joe biden, senator ted kaufman who took joe biden's seat in the senate. joe biden formed the team in april, added members over the summer but they're ready as soon as they feel comfortable rolling out the formal process of staffing a biden administration, to communicate that to the country. website was just a sneak preview. >> ask you about the issue of sentiment of the biden campaign here. i assume they're looking at same data the rest of us are. looking at numbers that ali was describing, lead in arizona slightly shrinking. still have pennsylvania. as this narrows down to perhaps just one state of pennsylvania, to they have the same confidence in the outcome they had 24 hours ago when joe biden addressed the nation? >> reporter: i find it interesting, this morning when the campaign laid out state of play, there was a bit of caution about pennsylvania. they felt i think they were flying more blind. but over the course of the day talking to the campaign, and they've been talking to allies in the state delegations and state democrats, they've been increas

. >> next is ellie kaufman. >> thank you so much for doing this. question, what happened in the town of willow? meagan: i think they are doing ok. i did not mean to send the whole nation their way. shortly after we talked yesterday, they posted on official results. i think it was just a matter of communication. that is now posted on the county website. you can see their 300 votes. >> thank you. followed byiaz, alexa. i don't see her. alexa is next. i was curious when you think you might have some data on the number of ballots coming in after election day, after the deadline? meagan: there is no specific statutory requirement or deadline. , theyecord participation conduct recounts, they then go report.and we do have reports that we have to file, federal reports about the data on the election. after all of the jurisdictions have entered their data, we have 850fun of getting to call jurisdictions and make sure that their numbers make sense. 1850.e we have to work with them to make sure the data is entered and all of that will be in our system on badge

garry marshal used pacific heights in the princess diaries and phillip kaufman scared people away fromon of the body snatchers. what were the most frequently used locations? the top two might not surprise you. city hall has been used in 32 films. the golden gate gate bridge, 28. number three, the fairmont on knob hill. >> actually i was surprised the fairmont was so high on the list even though it's an amazing building and it has been shot in so many features and television shows. but we seem to permit so many shoots on places like lombard street and the financial district. >> what actors have made the most san francisco films? sean connery, michael douglas, and meg ryan have all appeared in four. sean penn in five. >> the water's boiling. >> hello! >> both robin williams and clint eastwood top the list with six films shot in san francisco. >> go ahead, make my day. >> while dirty harry may make you look differently at the south of market neighborhood, nearly everywhere you go in san francisco, you may be surprised to know there is probably a little bit of hollywood not far away. alway

for that is the law that describes and projects how this transition should work was written by ted kaufman, who is one of the key advisors for now president-elect biden. they know how the transition is supposed to work and have been ready for it. to add to reporting in the past, the biden campaign says they will have transition offices in wilmington, but also in washington, d.c. and that the president-elect will work in both places. one more thing, the president-elect is talking about the agenda and focused on the coronavirus and sources say he does plan a national mask mandate. he can only directly affects federal areas like national parks but they say he will be reaching out to governors asking them to also mandate masks around the country. judy: interesting. yamiche, tell us about the thinking inside the white house and the trump campaign as they continue to insist the election is not over. yamiche: the president is refusing to face the thing he has feared the most in his life and during this campaign. that is tt he has lost, he is the loser of this campaign. he instead is not wanting t

ted kaufman, one of his quloechkt-ser longest-serving advisers who was part of that campaign 48 yearsgo tonight that won a surprise senate victory, said he's always been a man who had this test in the mirror. he always knew what he was doing and wanted to be able to live with himself, with his decisions and could live with them if they didn't go well in terms of his political decisions. the message that he began his campaign with was exactly what he took to the stage tonight, the idea of running to restore the soul of america, to restore the backbone of the economy, the middle class, and to unite the country. and i think that represents the biggest test for joe biden that he knows going forward and one he tried to address tonight, speaking directly to trump supporters. said, i know you're disappointed but give me a chance. he's also make clear he's going to move forward with his attempt to try to pass an aggressive agenda but one that we know as reporting from the "washington post" lays out is going to require also a lot of executive orders. we can't overlook, though, as well the mome

ted kaufman, who's running the transition, literally wrote the law, the latest law on transitions fromation to the next when he was an acting senator or the interim senator from the state of delaware who actually replaced joe biden. you have ron klain, who was the chief of staff in the vice president's office. you have a lot of people with a very serious, intricate nomg knowledge of how the government works. what impact will that have? >> it's clearly an advantage. i think you have the combination of a very skilled and seasoned group of people who are ready to take key positions in the biden administration, and the fact they've only been out of office for four years. often, even these transitions take place after a longer period of being out of office. so, for example, in the case of when president bush came in in 2000, his team had been out, even though very experienced, had been out of office for eight years. similarly when president obama took office in 2008, the democrats had been out of office. so this combination, i think, will help mitigate some of the cost associated with the d

msnbc's corey kaufman is at a hospital in milwaukee, wisconsin, one of the nation's hot spots right nowod morning. there is fear those gatherings that many people had could end up being superspreader events all across the country. >> good morning to you. and one of the biggest problems with this holiday versus the summer holidays is that despite the spreader that could actually be worse, because this is the winter season where more people are gathering indoors and of course, we have more of those holiday parties and such. and travel, that was only down 10% compared to last year. a pre-pandemic year. so that's almost certainly going to add to the spread as well. here in wisconsin, there's currently a five-day downward trend. not sure if that will hold though. health officials will wait and see, because testing has been reduced because of the holiday season. wisconsin is sixth in the nation per capita for covid cases, 301,000 cases right now. and here in milwaukee, where we're at, some 56,000 cases. and it's especially concerning in this area, because covid deaths in milwaukee over the pa

it's the model that ted kaufman used to write the legislation that puts us in this situation. the biden team clearly concerned about the continued delay of this certification essentially of his election, and what it means for his ability to hit the ground running on january 20th and expect to see democrats continue to raise additional alarm about this as well. >> it's interesting to flash back to four years ago. i think i was with you at the moment covering the transition. monica, as you have concerns about the biden team the president is slow walking the transition turnover, you have concerns going from inside the president's orbit, inside trump world. i'm about to say a sentence i don't know that i've said at all, maybe rarely over the last four and a half years. for the fifth day in a row we do not expect to see the president publicly today. it's really interesting. >> it's remarkable. and if the last couple days theme was defiance in defeat, it seems now we're shifting more to a reckoning with reality based on what people close to the president are telling our team about h

ted kaufman will lead it. he served on his staff for 22 years.president showing no signs of being ready to concede. tweeting this yesterday, quote: joe biden should not wrongfully claim the office of the president. i could make that claim also. legal proceedings are just now beginning. in a campaign statement from president trump saying we believe the american people deserve to have full transparency and do all vote counting and election certification and that this is no longer about any single election. this is about the integrity of our entire election process. as we know, legal proceedings on behalf of the trump campaign are playing out in pennsylvania for valid access and nevada over allegations of illegal voting. though no new evidence has been forthcoming. meanwhile here we see an increase secret service presence. set up. perhaps if we get developments today we will see biden come here. meanwhile, while we wait and watch those numbers we will bring them to you as soon as we get new ones. peeft, will, jed. will: thanks, griff there are two s

and joe biden, one of his most trusted aides, senator ted kaufman, who was his chief of staff in the senate, who actually wrote the law governing transitions, has been working behind the scenes to get ready for it. we saw tonight an effort to kick that off. the speech we saw from the former vice president tonight it was both the capstone of the campaign. he talked about the margin of victory, the record number of votes he received. but he also began an effort to govern, to take the very difficult work of something he promised throughout the campaign, trying to unite the country and set the tone for that. i want to play a part of his remarks in which he was clearly reaching out to the opposition. take a listen. >> i'll work as hard for those who didn't vote for me as those who did. let this grim era of demonization in america begin to end here and now. the refusal of democrats and republicans to cooperate with one another is not some mysterious force beyond our control. it's a decision, a choice we make. and if we can decide not to cooperate then we can decide to cooperate. >> we also

the team that biden has tasked to help oversee this transition, senator ted kaufman is the leader of that group. he wrote the law of guiding presidential transitions. so this is a team that's ready to hit the ground running with the former vice president. now the president-elect. >> let's talk about this covid task force, though. who specifically is on it? there are millions of people out there in the country that don't care about politics but they voted because they care about covid. what is he doing? >> we expect to see him meet with these people. vivekmurthy, david kessler and marcella nunez-smith, a professor at yale university. some other very interesting names, rick bright. the ousted whistleblower at hhs who warned that the trump administration was not taking the pandemic seriously enough. an interesting addition to this team. and joe biden is also reacting this morning to the news about progress toward a vaccine. he -- in a statement this morning, he's congratulating the women and men who helped get to this point and gave so much hope to the country. as biden put it. but he a

msnbc's corey kaufman is in o'clare, wisconsin. and reporter valerie castro is standing by in el paso, texas. thank you both for being here. cory, i want to start with you. things so bad in wisconsin you actually have the health department there declaring an entirely new category. tell us more. >> yeah, health department officials are stunned over this. so the previous high category was very high, and that was about 350 people or cases per 100,000 people. all counties in the state of wisconsin passed that to the point at which they had to create critically high. and that was a thousand cases per every 100,000. almost all counties have already blown past that marker as well, except for seven. what does that really mean? what that means is epidemiologists find it a lot harder to contact trace in this state because everything is just moving so rampantly. all but impossible is how they described it, alicia. now the case, the latest cases have grown now to 323,000, 2700 deaths in the state of wisconsin. it's not as much as a state like

biden transition team has really been working quietly behind the scenes for months, and senator ted kaufmanf staff, who actually wrote the legislation that now guides presidential transitions, has been taking the lead in that effort. and so, we're beginning to see today the first steps toward the work that they're doing. of course, the signal, the important signal that they're trying to send at this point, is that the issue that joe biden focused on so much in those closing months of the campaign, the pandemic, is going to be his top priority. so you saw the announcement this morning -- 12 members of his pandemic task force. we should expect to see the former vice president -- the president-elect -- start to spend the week reaching out to governors, local officials, learning their needs, because he wants to have legislation ready to sign on his desk in january to start to get resources to the states. and then it gets to the question of what he will do as president to set a different example. is there a mask mandate, among other issues that the new president will have to tackle? now, they're