mark meadows, the president's chief of staff, has tested positive. he's been an outspoken critic of wearing masks. do we know if there's a chance he spread it to others there? >> reporter: well, we do know that at least one trump campaign adviser has also tested positive. no way for us to know if that's directly connected to mark meadows' case, but a reminder, stephanie, that as all of us feel like time is, you know, frozen in place right now, coronavirus does not take a day off. we know that mark meadows was at the white house on tuesday evening. he was seen working the room in the east room without a mask, as you point out. he was also at campaign headquarters on wednesday along with the vice president and jared kushner, now bringing the total number of people in and around the white house who have been known to have contracted coronavirus in the last few months to 35, stephanie. >> but i just want to go back to the image. that was from just a few nights ago. you can see mark meadows standing behind the president. it's a crowded room. he's one of t

trump's chief of staff, mark meadows, has tested positive for coronavirus. nbc's josh lederman is in d.c. covering the campaign. nbc's ali vitali is covering the biden campaign in wilmington, delaware. josh, let me start with you. first, what do we know about what's happening in trump world with the covid test? what do we know about the campaign strategy moving forward? >> reporter: good morning, craig. a grim situation for the president politically made grimmer overnight that the president's chief of staff, mark meadows, and a trump campaign aide have both tested positive for coronavirus. we don't know exactly when mark meadows tested positive, but he was at the white house in the east room at that celebration the president had on election night. he was seen kind of working the room while wearing a mask and he was at election headquarters in virginia as the election results were coming in. mark meadows there at campaign headquarters with the vice president as well as jared kushner. an ominous reminder that even though we may all be preoccupied with pennsylv

gop newcomer madison cawthorn winning a north carolina congressional seat vacated by mark meadows last night. he's the youngest personnel eblghted to congress since -- elected to congress since the late 1700s. joining us now, congressman-elect mad some madin cawthorn. >> i'm not exactly sure how my feelings are sitting right now but i'm so honored and so humbled by the trust that western north carolina's placed in me. maria: tell me about your plans right now, madison. your priorities once you get there in the upcoming congress, we talked a lot about your platform moving into this before you were elected. but it's got to feel good. are you thinking about where your priorities will lie? >> absolutely. last night w at about 9:30 p.m.

mark meadows testing positive for the coronavirus, this after being seen all week in many public eventsstaffers close by with meadows not wearing a mask. he was here on election night for what was supposed to be the election night victory party for president trump and he was also with the president that morning when he traveled to arlington to be at the trump headquarters. right now the white house not providing too much information about exactly who mark meadows was in contact with, saying they have been contact tracing, but we're told -- sources telling our jim acosta that mark meadows 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 ac

we just learned the president's chief of staff, mark meadows, has it.

chief of staff mark meadows is the latest to become infected after a string of outbreaks at the white house. >>> a high case of covid-19 cases three days running and a surge showing no sign of slowing down. >>> good morning. i am emily turner. spare the air alert to. >>> joe biden is on the brink of winning the presidency. there are several key battleground states and biden's leading in pennsylvania with nearly 29,000 vote margin. in georgia separated by thousands of votes for the two candidates. in georgia had by 30,000 votes in a nevada a 22,000 vote advantage. >>> if joe biden wins pennsylvania or any two of the other remaining states, he would surpass 270 electoral votes, the number needed to weigh the presidency. let's get the latest from cbs laura podesta oh from washington. >> we will win this race. >> reporter: joe biden stop short of declaring victory but with growing leads in several undecided states the former vice president laid out his vision for the country. >> they've given us a mandate for action on covid, the economy, climate change, systemic racism. they made it clea

pandemic. >> because it is a contagious virus just like the flu. >> less than two weeks after mark meadowsse was not trying to control the pandemic, new overnight that meadows himself has now tested positive for the virus. meadows is not alone. yesterday the u.s. recorded over 122,000 new covid cases. again breaking the single-day record for a third day in a row. texas has now become the first

chief of staff mark meadows, hud secretary ben carson, and david bossy, overseeing the president's legal challenges. several were at the white house on election night not wearing masks. >> there are promising developments on the vaccine front right now. novavax, the fifth to enter late stage clinical trials later this month. that announcement hours after encouraging early result from pfizer's covid-19 vaccine. dr. anthony fauci says heallp i on the way. >> you have to go through the hoops to make sure the i's are dotted and t's are crossed. we would be giving vaccine to people likely before the end of this year. that is good news. >> good news, but the vaccine will likely come too late to help with the current resurging pandemic we're seeing. states have already raised logistical questions as well about distributing the vaccine.

mark meadows is there plain as day. he's in all the photographs. no mask.that event at the white house, an election night event at the white house where a couple hundred people were packed in to the east room. they were given covid tests, the white house says, but as we know, those tests don't always pick up if you're in the early stages of having the virus. and the rapid tests, which are not 100% fool proof don't always pick it up. and he was there without a mask, walking around a crowd of people without a mask, including senior administration officials, members of the president's family and indeed campaign staff and white house aides. we know now beyond meadows that there are a number of others who have had it we know the white house did not disclose this publicly. meadows himself ordered staff to not cooperate, to not put this information out and it was only after the media started digging around the last day or so did we learn about yet another white house outbreak coming on the heels of one of the vice president's office, the one when the president him

this, again, the words of mark meadows. the biggest takeaway from his letter, frankly, was that they had received that letter of ascertainment, they were aware of it and that it called for the start to that transition process. >> and apparently secretary azar said at that briefing today on operation warp speed that the warp speed officials are now authorized to speak to the biden transition, that's clearly important, because the delivery sequencing for the vaccines can begin after december 10. >> reporter: which joe biden had warned could be delayed by weeks or months if that sort of cooperation didn't exist. >> exactly. thanks so much. peter, we're going to see the president today, a rare sighting given what's been happening lately, it all has to do with the thanksgiving turkey. >> reporter: the turkey pardon could take place at 2:00, it has the potential to be a more lighthearted moment which would be a big break for the president who has been privately fuming over the course of the last weeks. >> let's hope he doesn't ta

relations and biden prepares to name a covid-19 task force as infections hit record daily levels while mark meadows tests positive joe biden has called for unity the win means that donald trump becomes the first one term president since george bush sr. in 1993. after four days of intense counting, biden was named the projected win winner in pennsylvania and nevada. he has so far claimed over 75 million votes, that is the most by any presidential candidate in history. biden outlined the key issues his administration will face in the short term >> what is our mandate i believe it is this america has called upon us to marshal the forces of decency, of fairness and science and hope and the great battles of our time the battle to control the virus, the battle to build prosperity, the battle to secure your family's health care, the battle to achieve racial justice and root out systemic racist in this country. >> and kamala harris is the first woman to hold the office of vice president. harris says voters have welcomed in a new dawn. >> congressman john lewis before his passing wrote democracy is not a st

she says along with trump's chief of staff mark meadows at least four other white house aides currentlys. per sources. pains were taken to keep meadows' illness a secret, i'm told. and people around him who knew were told to keep quiet. direct quotes from the twitter feed of the white house correspondent jennifer jacobs with bloomberg. but, again, it underscores the subject matter that is bumping up behind us every day and every night. we are waiting for results in this election. the driving issue in this election has been the out of control pandemic that we are dealing with. we're losing over 1,000 people a day. just today over 122,000 of our fellow citizens received a coronavirus diagnosis. well, as promised back with us tonight is our friend, the dean of presidential history on twitter. but the long time presidential author and biographer, michael beschloss. his latest book for your reading list is "presidents of war." michael, to piggyback on the last conversation we had this afternoon, talk about the contrast between and let's for the purposes of this -- let's go ahead and assume j

another development as the white house hangs in the balance, president trump's chief of staff, mark meadows, who was opposed to wearing a mask, has now tested positive for covid. michael george. >> we are awaiting word on whether anyone else in the president's inner circle tested positive. this video shows mark meadows in close contact with the first family and administration members on election day, the far right of the screen there, he was not wearing a mask. >>> the days of anticipation and uncertainty have been wearing on some voters on both sides of the aisle. we have team coverage tonight with reaction from both republicans and democrats, and we begin with kpix 5's len ramirez. >> reporter: a roller coaster ride for democrats, the early trump lead in the swing states that joe biden has now overcome, his supporters can only hope that it holds. this group of san jose activists usually takes to the streets to call for peace in faraway lands. >> i think everyone should be on the streets like this. >> reporter: they are out here rooting for joe biden to bring a calm and orderly finish to a

mark meadows is sick. he will likely, hopefully, get better prior to that. ou guys may remember from psych 101, the milgram experiment where an authoritarian leader sort of makes you do things you don't want to do. and i think mark is a victim of that, and i think he'll pull himself back together. >> come on. >> you don't agree with that? >> there's the chris i know. tell him, chris. >> these are grown-ups. this isn't stockholm syndrome. this isn't prisoner's dilemma. >> why are all these people following this path then, chris? >> come on. it's power and proximity to power. anthony. look. anthony and i are friends, and i have to tell you. i've told you this before. you did something that is almost unheard of in politics, which is that you understood what you were doing was wrong. you thought it was the right thing but you realized it was wrong because of who you were doing it for and you changed. it's rare, in this business, because everybody makes their own choice and they're going to have to own it. we got to jump. we have to take a break. anthony, get some

well you remember the mark meadows was the man who just before the election said that donald trump and the administration wasn't going to defeat the virus it was just going to contain it he himself has been seen on many occasions without a mask in fact there was a very famous exchange on capitol hill when he went to speak to journalists they asked them to put on a mask here a fuse and walked off yes he has been confirmed to be carrying covert virus apparently he tested positive on wednesday which is interesting because of course he was in the event at the white house that donald trump held on tuesday night he apparently wanted to keep this quiet to try didn't detract from other news at least 3 other staffers in the white house who also have the virus doesn't seem to be any change in the track interest policy of the white house so they're not trying to find out who those was in contact with but this is embarrassing and not only embarrassing for mark meadows but for the president as well because you remember that before the election he said come november the 4th the day after the electio

. >> nbc news has confirmed a story that mark meadows the president's chief of staff, few people are any closer to him in the orbit. he was up in the residence for election night is covid positive again. this is mr. meadows' health aside and we hope for the very best, this adds to the visual of a president trying to operate independent of the greatest mass casualty event in modern times. >> that was something kind of striking about joe biden's words tonight. we don't hear president trump talking about the realities of the coronavirus pandemic even as those in his inner circle continue to test positive because our entire way of life is up ended by this pandemic. we heard joe biden talking about families who are grieving because of lost loved ones. we don't hear him even talking about it in a serious way when those close to him in his orbit test positive or even his wife melania or his sonbeart test positive. it's further this idea republicans and president trump are not living in the same reality the rest of us are forced to because of this pandemic. and it's getting worse, brian. thi

2000 just doesn't have the same sort of political heft that james baker had nor is he a lawyer mark meadows is the man you're talking about he's the chief of staff to donald trump he's been by the president's side every day during the election campaign and he was that the. white house on tuesday night not wearing a mask when people were gathered waiting for the results and what they got was donald trump claiming victory he tested positive on wednesday the day after the election as did a number of people who work around him we don't know whether he's self isolating we don't know whether he's showing any symptoms but what we do know is that a week or so before the election mark meadows told the media that the bush administration was never going to defeat the via this instead they were going to continue it well this is a bit of an embarrassment for donald trump and the white house you remember as well that during the election donald trump said come the day after the election no one would talk about covert all you hear about is corporate corporate corporate he said the media were doing it becau

. >> and governor kasich, white house chief of staff mark meadows tweeted his congratulations to michael flynn. several of your fellow republicans are cheering this development. what's your message to your fellow republicans about this? >> let's get on with all this. the president's lost. now we're having a big debate about his pardons. every president has the ability to pardon. i have great respect for preet. he's a really great constitutional guy. he understands this. former u.s. attorney. i just -- it's going to be more pardons that are going to come. that's what presidents do. i remember when bill clinton had some pardons and people went crazy. it's the power that they have. and frankly he's done. he's going to leave. the transition has started. let's just move on. i mean, i listened to adam schiff. i've known adam schiff not closely but for a while. i mean, the language is harsh. i think it's time to start healing. tomorrow's thanksgiving. can we just move on a little bit? and you know, we're going to have a new administration coming in. i think the early appointments have been good

white house chief of staff mark meadows after meeting with senate republicans yesterday, brushing off trump's unfounded allegations of voter fraud. the associated press reports that meadows has encouraged senate republicans to make the most of their remaining time with trump, according to two senators. so the problem is that the biden transition team, joe, is waiting for -- is waiting desperately, actually, for vital information pertaining to the coronavirus. >> well -- >> and people will lose their lives if this information isn't handed over. >>

mitch mcconnell met for the first time with chief of staff mark meadows, presumably on that.u see any breaking ground on this, oafter all these month? >> i don't know, andrea, this is so disappointing on behalf of the republican party and particularly mitch mcconnell not coming to the table with nancy pelosi. that is really what should happen. the house passed a measure, as we know, months ago. the h.e.r.o.e.s. act. and then act 2, that have been sitting in the senate. and people are suffering. not only are people, you know, increasingly getting sick. we've seen these numbers. but more unemployed people, people facing eviction, people in long lines, because they don't have the money to go to the grocery store, so they're going to food pantries. america is hurting right now. and republicans have a responsibility, even in an outgoing administration, to just get this one piece of work done. i think that's what the election was in part about, wanting to get moving. and, you know, give joe biden at least an opportunity as a new president to start off on the right footing in terms

mark meadows was in close proximity to the first family and several trump campaign officials over the past few days. this is video of him, in fact, at trump headquarters on tuesday and then that night he attended the white house election party. it's not clear when he first tested positive. abc news chief white house correspondent jonathan karl spoke about meadows during a special report. >> we have seen him on capitol hill not wearing a mask. we have seen him constantly, every once in a while he throws a mask on but he is somebody who seems to take some degree of pride in not wearing a mask. >> the trump campaign battleground state's director nick traynor has also tested positive for coronavirus. so have four white house staffers. the white house has not responded to a request for comment. >>> the overwhelmingly blue bay area has a few locations where gop support is strong. solano county has the largest proportion of republican voters in the bay area. abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley went there to speak directly with voters about how they are feeling as the results of the president

we have often seen mark meadows traveling and right at the side of the president. they were together around the country in the final campaign stops and meadows was inside the east wing on the overnight tuesday into wednesday election party, often seen not wearing a mask. peter, kristen. >> mark meadows one of hundreds of thousands of americans to test positive for the virus this last week alone. kelly o'donnell at the white house, thank you. >>> to pennsylvania now with 20 electoral votes that could biden at the top. stephanie gosk is in philadelphia with the very latest there. a very busy day in philadelphia. stephanie, good morning. >> reporter: yeah, another really busy day, kristen, good morning to you. you know, the votes here in pennsylvania keep trickling in. the latest last night at 10:00, thousands of votes out of allegheny county adding to the total pushing joe biden's lead up to close to 30,000. but you know there are still over 100,000 uncounted ballots out there. they are a mix of mail-in ballots and provisional ballots, including a group of 29,000 mail

us president donald trump's top aide white house chief of staff mark meadows has contracted covert 19 the new york times says meadows 1st tested positive one day after the election it said another aide was also diagnosed as having the virus. in the bundesliga german champions find munich travel to dortmund on saturday to play their arch rivals in a game known as the classic once again though the sounds of the match will echo off off of empty seats it's being played during a partial lockdown because of germany's record coronavirus numbers dortmund germany's self-proclaimed football capital is in lockdown. on saturday it hosts germany's biggest game the so-called classic or the you wouldn't know that from looking around. you'd already be feeling the excitement and that's not the case anymore even at 12 o'clock on a saturday even a game against byron is like any other day that was unthinkable 6 months ago the rules are strict no fans are allowed in the stadium and pubs must remain closed. to get if you want to go to the stadium. 80000 people in the flood lights go on instead you have to

president donald trump's top white house chief of staff mark meadows has tested positive for covert 19 according to reports meadows' age 61 had told people he had the virus after the election though it's unclear whether when he was 1st tested. police in austria have closed a mosque and a prayer room which they say the suspect in monday's terror attack regularly visited and putting the pictures same survey in the wrong order but 4 people died in that mass shooting on monday earlier police in germany raided the home of fool men allegedly connected to the suspected gunman. of. apologies the pictures for those stories were around the wrong way so around $150.00 people a day in guatemala after superstorm eta swept through the central american country and dozens of dead in neighboring honduras and mexico too to hit the region as a force for hurricane it's been downgraded to a tropical storm that meteorologists say the storm could soon regain strength. hurricane and says brutal assault it's a threat to young and old alike the storm has swum to guatemala and the army has been rescuing the stra

the other developments in the pandemic president trams top adviser white house chief of staff mark meadows has contracted covert 19 reports say he tested positive a day after the election this comes amid record numbers of new infections in the u.s. germany has also set a new daily record with a number of new cases exceeding 23000 for the 1st time and argentina's president alberta finance says his country could receive 750000 doses of vaccine from the drug maker pfizer by that simba if it's ready and approved by regulators. let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world if the o.p.'s prime minister says his air force has bombed oms depos and destroyed military hardware belonging to his former coalition allies in the 2 great region tensions rise in september went to gray held an election against the prime minister as well experts fear the latest escalation could trigger a civil war. police have killed at least one person during a protest in the iraqi city of bathroom for than 40 people were wounded when police opened fire on the protesters security forces have killed mo

us media reporting that president donald trump's top aide white house chief of staff mark meadows has contracted coded 19 a new york times says meadows 1st tested positive one day after the election it said another 8 was also diagnosed as having corona virus trump was hospitalized with the virus a month ago. of. around 150 people a day and in guatemala after superstorm swept through the central american country and dozens are dead in neighboring honduras and mexico to hit the region as a force for hurrican it since they downgraded to a tropical storm but maybe just say the storm could soon regain strength. hurricane brutal assault it's a threat to young and old alike the storm has swung to guatemala and the army has been rescuing the stranded many helpless on their rooftops. it's a has caused streams to swirl and rivers to pour floodwaters drowning entire neighborhoods. some of the rescued they're fortunate to escape but they've lost so much. for others a close call of a different kind making it out with less than the shirt on their back. the storm lashed much of the small central ame

the people around him, kushner, mark meadows, covid infested mark meadows, they just for some reasonnot telling him what he needs to hear which is that sir, you lost, it's time to go home. whatev wherever that home may be. >> why it donald trump doing this? get inside his head. you have been there before. you know him so well. >> sadly. >> is he just buying time? >> no, it's not about buying time. donald trump cannot accept the fact that he lost. to him, it is like calling him a loser, which is the worst thing in the world that you can call him. he will fight this not just until january when he is now required to leave and go wherever he has to go, but he will do things post leaving that will make things very difficult for the biden administration. he will be a thorn in biden -- >> like what? >> number one he will start his own media company. we have been talking about that since 2015. you have to remember that this election was never supposed to donald trump winning. it was supposed to be the greatest info commercial in the history of politics. but he won. some of the things we talk

another outbreak of infections in its own ranks housing secretary ben carson and chief of staff mark meadows among them. with news of a vaccine on the horizon health experts in the u.s. have urged people not to grow complacent warning that vigilance will be required for many more months. here watching data openings live from berlin stay with us to business with stephen beardsley coming right up well have more news for you at the top of the hour and remember you can always stay up to date on our web site that's data dot com i'm rebecca racist in berlin thanks very much for just. give us your country people will make you rich. oil provide you with jobs. the oil will take good care of you maybe just a big. oil silver took hold on the west coast.

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what did he say about mark meadows?t on the show last sunday, we can't control the pandemic but he appreciated that, he thought that's what the strategy is, and dr. fauci said mark meadows, you know, pretty straightforward guy. on the jake tarper, we don't think we can control the pandemic, at least he's admitting quote/unquote the strategy and i commend that. >> he tried to walk it back the next day, we can contain it and sort of danced around trying to repair the damage of actually speaking the truth, which understandably fauci appreciates him at least admitting what we all know. josh, fascinating. >> we spent last night an hour on the phone with dr. fauci and it was very clear to us he's frustrated with theed a min stras's response, he thinks so much needs to be done. he thinks cases are going to rise and deaths are going to rise. if something doesn't change we're going to be in for a long, dark winter, a record number of coronavirus cases and he said to us, very straightforward, i'm very concerned and i don't know w

chief of staff mark meadows has tested positive for coronavirus. is just the latest staffer to contract the virus. meadows attended several election gatherings this week. he was photographed being in close proximity with president trump on tuesday night at election parties. nbc news also has learned that a campaign aide also has tested positive. meadows' diagnosis comes as the u.s. hits an all-time high for covid-19 cases. more than 122,000 new cases were added yesterday alone. it's the third that day that the country has topped 120,000 new elections. >>> still to come on "today in the bay," san jose state had done something it hasn't done in nearly four decades. sports is next. my nunormal: fewer asthma attacks. less oral steroids. taking my treatment at home. nucala is a once-monthly add-on injection for severe eosinophilic asthma. not for sudden breathing problems. allergic reactions can occur. get help right away for swelling of face, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing. infections that can cause shingles have occurred. don't stop steroids unle

overnight we learned that his chief of staff mark meadows has tested positive for coronavirus. nbc's josh letterman is in d.c., he's covering the trump campaign, and ali vitali is in wilmington, delaware, covering the biden campaign. what do we know about what's happening behind the scenes in trump world right now? >> reporter: well, craig, if the president's political outlook were not dire enough, trump world now dealing with a new potential covid outbreak within trump's orbit after his chief of staff and a campaign aide both tested positive for coronavirus. we don't know exactly when mark meadows the chief of staff tested positive, but he has been both at the white house and at the president's campaign headquarters in the last several days. as joe biden's lead over the president in key states continues to grow, craig, the president is turning to the courts with now a half dozen active lawsuits, others in the works as he tries to further this false narrative that he's been pushing about the election somehow being stolen from him when we know, craig, that what's taking place ar

. >> mark meadows making clear in a memo to staff that he does not want anyone at the white house whoe approval talking to anybody on the biden transition team. makes you wonder why. vivian, happy thanksgiving, thank you for the reporting. >>> in the wake of president trump pardoning his former national security advisor michael flynn, those around him are asking who's next. this news wiping away flynn's guilty plea for lying to the fbi during the russia investigation. trump is expected to issue a series of pardons in the next two months. "the new york times" is saying that pardon seekers are highlighting their donations and time spent at trump properties. all this in order to win him over. joining me now a former fbi special agent and a lecturer at yale university. thank you for taking part of your thanksgiving to be with us asha. safe to say trump will issue more pardons on his way out the door, especially for those connected to the russia investigation, right? >> i think we can definitely expect to see that. now it's not unusual, at the end of a presidential term, to see a lot of pa

it's not clear when white house chief of staff mark meadows became infected.has appeared in close contact with mr. trump in recent days and was last seen wednesday not wearing a mask when the president visited his campaign headquarters. >>> new york governor andrew cuomo is stepping up national guard presence at his state's airports. the guard will be enforcing a requirement for travelers to new york to get a coronavirus test before and after they arrive, if they want to avoid a 14-day quarantine. it comes as the u.s. sets a record for new covid-19 infections for a third straight day. friday saw more than 126,000 new cases reported. 9.7 million people have been infected. more than 236,000 have died. tom hanson reports on the growing concerns of this surge in cases. >> reporter: a massive wave of covid-19 continues to wash over america with hot spots now stretching from the heartland into the west. >> i'm not going to mince any words here when it comes to the spread of the coronavirus. we're on a very dangerous path. >> reporter: denver mayor michael hancock sa

>> oh, i think it's mark meadows trying to do the minimum like emily murphy last night, do the minimumon to the next phase of the process, but i don't think it's going to have all that much effect. once you begin turning the wheels of the transition, joe biden gets the money that goes to a president-elect, he gets the access to government data, government space. i think that's a process that is not going to be stopped. the question is trying to do it in a way that, again, shields the president from as much embarrassment as possible and once it was done the president then quickly put out a tweet and said, well, i will never concede. he practically speaking has done so, we're moving on and that's the critical thing. >> john harwood, we will be watching the turkey hard today. thank you. >> i hope he doesn't take it out on the turkeys. >> what if he doesn't pardon them? >>> meanwhile, the biden/harris administration will introduce their cabinets picks today and cnn's coverage continues next. >>> good morning, everyone, i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. this morning the transition i

chief of staff mark meadows and we learned this morning klain has been in kuch wi touchky dr. anthony fauci. eager to talk to but not able to until when the gsa ascertained their way. >> so, ali, talk a little about what's coming next. potential picks for attorney general. i'm not sure there has been a more controversial role in the biden white house, in the trump white house. so a lot of people waiting to see what joe biden's going to do. who are they looking a tt, whato we no? >> reporter: again, speculation season. we did good a look on the foreign policy front. of course, attorney general is a key position we've seen power of that role. i think a lot of americans always knew how influential it was, but when you see the things that bill barr was doing on behalf of president donald trump i think a lot of americans now very aware of the fact that the department of justice is in need of leadership that biden could put in a few different people here. we're hearing the names javier basayre, and as well senator doug jones just lost his re-election battle and former attorney gener

justice now amy coney barrett of event where president trump introduced her as his nominee so mark meadows now on the list no word on whether he has symptoms or how he is but we'll continue to track that as news just broke that president trump's chief of staff has covid-19. still ahead tonight if kamala harris assumes the role vice president. her seat in congress would suddenly be vacant or hearing analysis from a local political science expert on who. >>could take her place plus convicted murderer scott peterson back in >>and then 15 years after being sentenced to death for the murders of his pregnant wife and unborn son. scott peterson appeared virtually in a san mateo county courthouse today, this surreal for a lot of people in an attempt to get his conviction thrown out kron four's maureen kelly talked to a member of his legal team who says if there is a new trial. >>they'll have new evidence. >>once again the fate of convicted murderer scott peterson will be decided here in redwood city because of the covid outbreak in san quit and this time around peterson appeared via zoom during th

in president trump's orbit including the highest ranking aide in the west wing, chief of staff mark meadows, have tested positive. sources tell abc news meadows has been near them all week seen here at the president's campaign headquarters in the final hours before the election and at the white house on election night not wearing a mask and shaking hands. it's unclear if meadows is experiencing any symptoms or when he tested positive. just last month on capitol hill, meadows refused to wear a mask while speaking to reporters. >> well, i'm more than ten feet away. well, i'm not going to talk to the press. >> reporter: and he made headlines with this concession that the administration is no longer trying to control the rapidly spreading virus. >> we're not going to control the pandemic. we are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics -- and other mitigation -- >> why aren't we going to get the control of the pandemic? >> because it is a contagious virus. >> reporter: now, in addition to meadows who as chief of staff has direct and frequent contact with the president and to

white house chief of staff, mark meadows, who also attended that event with others is also been infected. >> we learn the justice department could be looking into the presidential election results. attorney general william barr is allowing federal prosecutors to investigate any substantial allegations. there's been no real evidence of that. if there are clear and apparently credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election this comes as president-elect joe biden prepares for the white house saying that fighting the raging pandemic will be the immediate priority of his administration taking a live look at the lighthouse for you right now, making a major personnel change after losing the election. natalie brand live in wilmington, delaware to break it all down for us. greenback for here in delaware, joe biden has been wasting time on no time on transitions. had a call with the prime minister of canada, justin trudeau, and earlier, he rolled out an advisory board of 13 public health experts and scientists to help work on a covid

chief of staff mark meadows testing positive over the weekend. now we're learning, of course, the secretary of the department of housing and urban development ben carson has also tested positive for covid-19 in addition to four white house aides. it just brings into stark relief those comments from the former vice president talking about the issue and importance of wearing a mask. that is not something we've heard from this administration. the president, of course, rarely if ever does. ben carson was in that white house event after election night overnight not wearing a mask. he's been at other events without one as well. >> and the fact he was a promine prominent new prominent neurologist before political sphere. they claim a cdc person but i've heard there is not only not contact tracing but mark meadows reportedly stopped people from announcing his positive test on wednesday. we did not hear about it until this weekend. people that were with him at virginia headquarters election night at that party were presumably not contacted if he didn't an

and some people in the west wing do not believe what mark meadows is doing is helpful. the other thing, people are looking for jobs, starting to wonder what their employment situation will be, where they're going to go going forward because there wasn't this idea that the president could lose, even though he was down so many polls, people thought it was president trump. he would find a way to pull it off. now they're realizing it seems increasingly less likely. so it led to a frenzied atmosphere inside the west wing now. one person we have not seen since about 2:30 wednesday morning, vice president mike pence, even though he did tweet yesterday, seemingly trying to support what the president was saying at the press conference, even though it didn't match what the president said was going on. he, i am told, is one of several people making calls today, trying to get donations for a legal defense fund for the president because of course they're going to need a lot of money to follow through with rigged counts and lawsuits they're threatening. that's one thing the vice pres

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answers right now. >> really quickly sidebar since you brought it up who is running interference if mark meadowss slightly out of commission because of covid? >> yeah, i think that's a great question. typically the vice president, you know, would have a role here. we were not able to get an answer from the vice president's team about where he is today. i know one senior, very senior official who was just out enjoying their day, their weekend when i contacted them not at the white house, not involved in anything going on at all. >> other than that news conference at four seasons total landscaping, which was between -- at least next to an adult film store. shannon pettypiece -- i mean annie karney, what exactly was the president's day like? he went golfing, the news was called. fox news called it as well. what did he do then? >> we didn't see him again. the white house called a lid at about a little before 4:00, which is ironic because they made fun of -- they made the general public even know what calling a lid even is because it's when you're told that you will no longer see the principal that d

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among those who got copies of this letter mark meadows, chris lindel, a legal advisor over there, edward coffman from the biden team. so the white house knows about this. are you getting any reaction at all? >> wolf, we're reaching outright now. but if mark meadows, the chief of staff, has been cc'd on this, that means the white house has been notified and this process is underway. this is the process a lot of americans have been waiting on for weeks now, and it appears it's going to get started now as kristen holmes was just reporting. i can tell you talking to a trump advisor just a short while ago that the writing was on the wall when this decision came out of michigan that the board of state canvassers there was going to certify the results for joe biden in that state. and even this latest news out of pennsylvania, the commonwealth of pennsylvania, the supreme court decision there allowing some absentee ballots to be counted. i mean, wolf, they were just losing over and over and over again. and the words of this white house advisor, this is the end of the road for the president. now,

. >> less than two weeks after mark meadows made that admission, that the trump white house was not trying to control the pandemic, new overnight that meadows himself has now tested positive for the virus. meadows is not alone. yesterday the u.s. recorded over 122,000 new covid cases. again breaking the single-day record for a third day in a row. texas has now become the first state to record more than 1 million cases. and for those who argue that cases are getting less severe, yesterday there were more than 1,200 covid deaths, the third straight day the death toll was over a thousand. all a stark reminder that we're very much still in the throes of a raging pandemic as we cover the still yet to be called presidential race. ♪ >> good morning and welcome to a special saturday edition of "morning joe jt. i'm mika brzezinski and alongside joe scarborough and willie geist. we're still here, as we're waiting for key states to bring numbers in and the calls to be made, joe. >> four days, willie, we have one here, it is a long time coming but the network consortiums are ready to make the call for

mark meadows was in close proximity to the first family and several trump campaign officials in the past few days. and this is video of him at trump headquarters on tuesday. that night he then attended the white house election party. it's not clear when he first tested positive. abc news chief white house correspondent jonathan karl spoke about meadows during a special report. >> we have seen him on capitol hill not wearing a mask. we have seen him constantly, every once in a while he throws a mask on but he is somebody who seems to take some degree of pride in not wearing a mask. >> the trump campaign battleground state's director nick trainer has also tested positive for coronavirus. so have four white house staffers. the white house has not responded to a request for comment. >>> the overwhelmingly blue bay area has a few locations where gop support is strong. solano county has the largest proportion of republican voters in the bay area. leslie brinkley went there to speak directly with voters as the results unfold. >> reporter: solano county is diverse, stretching from the bay deep i

you have a lot of staffers that just didn't come in today and also you have the chief of star mark meadows has coronavirus. several aides around him are in quarantine. and in the campaign they started out the day still kind of defiant. they held a call with surrogates whether they were talking about having rallies, whether they were talking about protests and trying to fire up their surrogates and held a press conference. and as soon as the news organizations called this race for joe biden it was almost radio silence. so i think there's a lot of people there who are coming to terms on that front as well. even though i will note the campaign has continued sending out repeated e-mails to super r supporters soliciting donations for their legal fight. >> really quickly sidebar since you brought it up who is running interference if mark meadows is slightly out of commission because of covid? >> yeah, i think that's a great question. typically the vice president, you know, would have a role here. we were not able to get an answer from the vice president's team about where he is today. i know one