says mitt romney.dent trump responding, saying he's sure romney feels he was slaughtered by obama, quote, fair and square, referring to the 2012 election in which romney blew what was surely the best political opportunities for any presidential candidate to prevail against president obama in the midst of a downturn in the economy. well, joining us now is jenna ellis, spokeswoman for the trump campaign's legal team, attorney to president trump fighting for electoral integrity. jenna, good to have you with us. let's start with, you know, i don't think we can make too much of anything mitt romney says except now he is calling black, white and white black when he says the president is acting undemocratic by trying to preserve electoral and establish electoral integrity. your reaction to senator very, very quickly if you would. >> it's really embarrassing that a sitting united states senator doesn't understand how the court of law or the u.s. constitution works. and, clearly, he just wants to get camera tim

that's what mitt romney says.nd forgive me, maybe because it's i've had four espressos, but i think we need to raise the alarm level a little bit here on what's happening. it's not going to work. what the president is doing is not going to work. >> how do you know that? >> because there are several levels along the way that will stop it, courts will stop it. even if he wins in michigan, there aren't enough electoral votes there to get -- >> i hope you're right, but everything that chips away, maybe it sets yet a new finish line or a new boundary that is broken. i mean, look, today is a big test. today is a big test what the state legislators in michigan will do after they meet. >> i guess here's my point, and you and i disagree on what will work eventually, but we can all agree that the fact that there's a president trying to do this in public, that in and of itself, julie, in and of itself is precedent setting, it damages the democracy. it's just bad, bad, stuff. and to have mitt romney and ben sasse, who's got a

we heard from mitt romney, saying he is the gorilla in the room. senior figures in the republican party perhaps wondering whether he is going to come back in four years. is that perhaps what is making them think twice about conceding on his behalf? i think so, think twice about conceding on his behalf? ithink so, christian. 0bviously, behalf? ithink so, christian. obviously, the president continues to send out e—mail after e—mail. i probably get ten of these an hour, saying the media doesn't get to select the president, the people do. i think he is laying down the gau ntlet i think he is laying down the gauntlet that he is not going to go away quietly, and he could come back before you know it to try to reclaim the office that he so clearly cherished. i don't think we have heard the last of donald john trump. ron, what about the ideology of trump trumpism? i think there are millions upon millions of americans who love this president, believing his ideology, message, and as you heard mitt romney say, he still is going to be a very powerful figure in

i just read the quote there from mitt romney. do you think that we'll see more republicans join them? >> we need to. you know, sass and romney were two of the original four to admit the obvious, the fact that joe biden won the election. but the other 48 have been stunningly silent, and we are past the point where anyone who wants to be able to call themselves a patriot away with a straight face needs to speak out against the sitting president trying to undermine the integrity of our elections. we get numb to the crazy train over the trump years. this is different. this is uniquely dangerous. this is totally inexcusable and every republican now needs to find the stones to stand up and speak out and condemn it clearly. period. >> pamela, what we heard from the president's team today was really an all-out assault on democracy. i'm sure you saw that press conference. my mouth was agape when i was watching this. rudy giuliani was rambling on about wild conspiracy theories. but i just want to be clear here. there isn't a shred of evide

joining me now, is republican senator mitt romney of utah. senator romney, thank you so much for joining us. it's much appreciated. it's no secret you've had your differences with president trump and you said you weren't going to vote for him. do you think ultimately it's a good thing for the country that joe biden is the president-elect? >> well, i think half the country thinks it's a great idea. i think the other half thinks it's not such a great idea, but the reality is given the fact that the statisticians have come to a conclusion at this stage, i think we get behind the new president, unless for some reason that is overturned, we get behind the new president and wish him the very best. ann and i send our congratulations and will keep this president, like the last president, in our prayers. >> you said you weren't going to vote for president trump. did you vote for joe biden? >> i'm not going to talk about my vote, because that is in the rear-view mirror. i am going to talk about how ki work with the new president. i know he's on the oth

it's mitt romney leading the way. see if anyone else follows. >> mitt romney said what every republican should be saying right now. we're grateful he did say that. ben sasse, very grateful that ben sasse said again something that many of us look at as being obvious, but you know what? regardless, i'll just say it -- >> it is obvious. >> i'm grateful that he's saying what needs to be said. joni ernst is right, it's outrageous and i'm glad she is saying it's outrageous. republicans, it is interesting all along you can go state by state and you can see that donald trump is attacking everybody. it's crazed and it's chaotic. he's attacking republicans as well as democrats. he attacked the republican secretary of state in georgia because donald trump lost georgia, right? right? this is like a fat kid getting up to the plate and striking out and then going back and bullying somebody on the bench and pushing him around saying you made me strike out. what, i was sitting over here chewing gum. that's exactly what he's doing and

past: if you days have no and so i think we are probably -- we did hear from mitt romney am a one of the senior republicans in the party. if you look at the republicans who have waited and congratulated joe biden on his white house victory, a lot of them are people who either have been opposed to donald trump and have issues with donald trump including mitt romney, or people who are on their way out of congress like francis rooney of florida, a congressman who served as an basset or for george w. bush and he's retiring and has extended his congratulations to the biden -- harris team. for the folks who see a future in the republican party or are perhaps looking to run in 2024 for president against joe biden, those people i think are following the lead of the president in contesting the sew some and want to kind of doubt and the results even though the results are clear. joe biden has one then -- by more than 4 million votes and that's expected to increase significantly in the electoral college vote was a pretty convincing win as well and is expected to grow if he does pick up georgia.

and kevin madden, former senior adviser to mitt romney. thanks for being with us.donna edwards, the house, there were losses in house seats. nancy pelosi saying she will retain the speaker's gavel but there is criticism and internal fighting. some of the centrists, elissa slotkin, aoc, abigail spanberger, have different conclusions for why some of those incumbents lost their seats. >> well, look, i think as nancy pelosi says, the democratic party and the democratic caucus is really a wide range, it's a very diverse caucus. so i'm not surprised by that. i do think there is a natural tension between those who are running in the strongest trump districts and others, people like myself, who had a solid blue district. at the same time, you know, we have to understand that in order to form the majority, it's going to take all of them. and i think that united behind a president biden, that people are going to come together on an agenda for the american people. and these differences that we like to talk about in the press and write about, really within the caucus, i think

thanks for having me, chuck. >>> and joining us now is republican senator mitt romney of utah. senator romney, welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you. >> let me start with a simple question. what did you learn from the voters on tuesday night? >> well, i learned that republicans picked up seats in congress, held on to the senate, picked up state houses across the country. but we lost the presidency, and so it's a bit of a mixed message. i think people are saying that this conservative principles still account for the majority of public opinion in our country. i don't think the american people want to sign up for the green new deal. i don't think they want to sign up for getting rid of coal or oil or gas. i don't think they're interested in medicare for all or higher taxes that would slow down the economy. but they do want to say a change in leadership in the white house apparently at this stage, and so it's a message which says, all right, a change in leader, but we're not going to be turning a sharp left turn in terms of public policy. >> what do you believe joe biden's

and mitt romney and larry hogan. we're going to begin in wilmington, delaware, where we're joined by symone sanders. thanks for joining us. congratulations on this victory. hard-fought, long-fought. i have to ask you about this moment, from kamala harris. take a listen. >> while i may be the first woman in this house, i will not be the last. >> tens of millions of women, voted for this ticket. if you can take off your politico hat for one second, i want to ask you, as a black woman, what does this moment feen for you? >> thanks for having me this morning, jake. last light was historic and remarkable. as vice president-elect harris said in her speech last night, the audacity, the boldness of president-elect joe biden, to choose her as his running mate, to help break a glass ceiling that has had many cracks but has not yet been shattered. it's amazing. i had the opportunity to travel with president-elect joe biden and vice president-elect senator harris. i'm in awe of both of them. the american people picked a good tic

we have mitt romney and ben sass, and nobody else in the u.s. senate. today would be a prime time to do it with the president trying to have michigan legislators come to the white house so he can convince them to overturn the results of the election. >> let me name say 15 or so republican senators, what i'm doing is not violating a journalistic principle because they've told me what i'm about to say but for two or three years i talked to members of staff of the senators, members of committees, staffpeople, aides, assistants, people who have worked for these people. look at 15 of these republican senators who disdain and even despise donald trump, have said so to each other. rob portman, lamar alexander, roy blunt, susan collins, murkowski, cornyn, thune, mitt romney we know, todd young, tim scott, marco rubio, chuck grassley, richard burr and others, many if not most of these individuals from what i have been told were happy to see donald trump defeated in this election, as long as the senate could be controlled by the republicans. they've experienced a

through the courts and how he responds to that but i want to talk we had just before from from mitt romney who has cautioned ok i'm to the president saying one has to be careful in the choice of words talking about the election being corrupt or stolen mitt romney saying that the language could encourage a course in history which would be very unfortunate what exactly that he's trying to say here and do you think we'll see more republicans to not only distancing themselves from president trump. i mean there there was a lot of talk and not just talk there were surveys that showed that many americans weren't themselves advocating for violence should their side lose this election but there was an expectation that somebody else other americans were going to do something that was not in keeping with their democratic tradition that's for sure and so we're just we're we've been very much on edge here and i think that we're beginning to cautiously look beyond that and to think that we really may be in a to do a different place but you're right there are tens of millions of americans for whom they'v

we'll speak with republican senator mitt romney, that's next.hris: president trump has not only refused to concede to joe biden, he says he will send lawyers to courts across the nation tomorrow. claiming democrats are trying to steal this election with wide widespread fraud. we're joined by republican senator mitt romney of utah who says the president's rhetoric is dangerous. senator, welcome back to fox news sunday. >> thanks, chris. good to be with you. chris: i want to start with the president's comments about the election on thursday night. here he is. >> we will not you allo you aae corruption to steal such an important election or any election for ma matter. we can't allow anybody to silence our voters and manufacture results. chris: you say the president has every right to pursue his legal remedies, which of course he does, but that his rhetoric there and in a number of tweets has gone far over the line. how? >> well, i think it is appropriate for the president to make sure that the vote count has been done properly, to carry out recount

mitt romney's made this point, right? troops being drawn down and all sorts of things happening all of a sudden for reasons of vengeance or whatever it might be. but what really is at stake here in this lame duck? you're pointing out unemployment benefits are going to end. i mean, real things are happening to real people right now because of these decisions or lack thereof. >> they are. and, look, the biden administration also deserves a normal transition. they deserve to be getting the information they should get that a normal transition would have. they deserve to be getting the funding from the gao that they should be getting. they deserve to have the support so they can hit the ground running on january 20th. one of the things we pride ourselves in this country is a normal peaceful transfer of power. we need to have that, and that starts literally from election day on. it's hard to transfer power in this country. there are a lot of jobs and a lot of offices that need to be filled. and president-elect biden needs to ha

thank you to mitt romney and others who have. but the rest need to do so as well. the republican party has to begin to repair the damage that donald trump has been making. the good news is, though, the gambit today, however wrong the president's actions might be, the pillars that are holding up this democracy, they are not going to be toppled. the president may be slashing at them. he may be flailing at them in desperation, but these pillars will not fall, and the choice of the voters is going to be upheld. >> it's not working, as i said yet, but the bad news is the president is explicitly trying. us as you stated so eloquently, that in and of itself leaves a real mark that's hard to recover from. i appreciate you being here. thank you so much. >> thank you, john. >> thank you. >>> next a former republican senator defense secretary on what we're seeing and what he has not seen from his old senate colleagues. where are the republicans now? >>> and later, with cases hospitalizations and fatalities soaring, a new and sobering forecast on the pandemic. that and more wh

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you did that for mitt romney. he did not win that election, for whenin the process these campaigns start thinking about a possible transition of power. it's interesting. in 2010, it provided that there acts and it was majorndidates organizing transitions. it starts as early as april, certainly by may because there's , organizingh to do , so it'snal government quite a sophisticated operation, and large. host: what do they do? thet: they have to appoint positions. getting that cleared is important. then there's the first 100, 200 days of the administration to fulfill campaign promises that campaign represented to the public. that gets down to riding executive orders. the third is to organize , and lastly, it is what we are seeing with the president-elect today where he is supported by his transition. ory don't have the trappings the normal organization that would go through. how much money has been involved in this? we just read for our viewers the headline the president-elect is crowdfunding his transition costs, r

we'll speak with republican senator mitt romney, that's next.lright, i brought in ensure max protein to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. [grunting noise] i'll take that. woohoo! 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. ensure max protein. with nutrients to support immune health. ensure max protein. irresistibly smooth chocolate. ♪ to put the world on pause. lindor. made to melt you. by the lindt master chocolatier. chris: president trump has not only refused to concede to joe biden, he says he will send lawyers to courts across the nation tomorrow. claiming democrats are trying to steal this election with wide widespread fraud. we're joined by republican senator mitt romney of utah who says the president's rhetoric is dangerous. senator, welcome back to fox news sunday. >> thanks, chris. good to be with you. chris: i want to start with the president's comments about the election on thursday night. here he is. >> we will not you allo you aae corruption to steal such an important election or any election for ma matte

we have ben sasse, mitt romney, and a much lesser extent, lamar alexander.have said nothing. you have these two michigan legislators go to the white house, today. said the law in michigan says whoever won the popular vote there is going to get the l electors. but how much easier would it be if mitch mcconnell would speak out publicly for these politicians? >> i don't understand why they're so hesitant. they -- apparently, they fear the president. that he might turn his supporters loose on them. and they would send hate mail and other types of activities directed toward them. i was talking to a gentleman who, at 17, lied about his age and joined the army because we had been attacked by the japanese and also the germans. he was 17 when he joined. he was the -- one of the first ones on omaha beach. he went back during the korean war. and you think objectabout the gt generation. they were fighting nazi bullets and bombs coming at them. and, here, we have a bunch of senators who fear a vote against them, who fear they might lose? not their life or their limbs but

. >> chris: we will talk with republican senator mitt romney, who says the president is inflaming dangerousassions. plus congressional democrats have a disappointing night, failing to mount a blue wave in the senate and now holding a thin majority in the house. >> we did not win every battle in the house, but we did win the war. >> chris: we will ask our sunday panel about the new balance of power in washington. and our "power player of the week," a fascinating look at the u.s. army through the eyes of its heroes. all right now on "fox news sunday." ♪ >> chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. here are the headlines this busy sunday. joe biden is now projected to win at least 290 electoral votes, more than enough to become the nation's 46th president. in a tight race against donald trump, who is challenging the results in a broad legal offensive claiming fraud and voting irregularities. the president, yet to concede but the biden transition team already hard at work. in a moment we will speak with former mayor pete buttigieg, a member of the biden transition. but we begin this h

and now mitt romney who had been previously the governor of massachusetts and paul ryan who was from wisconsin, he was a congressman. he would later become the speaker of the house. this is, i think, for -- this is a lesson to us all in the fact that one comment can so very easily sink yourship. and one thing that really went far to sinking the ship of mitt romney in 2012 was a comment that he made when he was asked in one of the debates about women in his administration. and he said the unfortunate comment that he had a binder full of female names. that doesn't sound -- it sounds pretty innocuous but it got blown up. he was ridiculed for it, it hurt, but there was also something very unlucky. for romney and ryan in that election, and folks in new jersey might really remember this. october of 2012, do you remember an event that took place? if i told you it was a weather event? >> hurricane sandy? >> super storm sandy? >> super storm sandy, right. some of you may remember that barack obama came to new jersey and he and chris christie had their arms around each other, and later on the

are there other people who may want to take the party in a different direction, you look at mitt romney has staked out his own ground. i don't know that he has any interest in running for anything else ever again. you see ben sasse who clearly is not a donald trump-style republican. the problem for them is that the lane, so to speak, out there is very narrow for those types of people. so many republicans are all donald trump republicans at this point. he's taken it over and so they can try to lead a movement and i don't think there's a lot of space for that. there aren't a lot of voters. you're not leading a movement because there's nobody there. >> i want to show you and our viewers what representative kevin mccarthy, minority leader in the house, had to say about the future of the party. >> you're assuming president trump is moving on. i think the president, regardless whether he's president again or citizen trump, he will continue to play a part in this nation. i look at the numbers of members who got elected, they got elected under president trump. the president helped them get elec

it alarms mitt romney, at least one of two republican senators willing to speak up overnight. mitt romney says it's difficult to imagine a worse, more un-democratic action by a sitting american president. ben sasse put out a statement not quite as stringent as this, but a statement as well. that leaves, what, 51 other sitting republican senators right now who don't have the courage to speak up and say that the president of the united states is trying to overturn the election. where are they this morning, maggie? >> as you know, john, better than anyone, you know, republicans are concerned about the special elections in georgia going into early january and i don't expect to hear people like mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham, talk, who i think are the only two who the president would be inclined to listen to. i think you are not going to hear anything from them until next month when they feel as if their majority is cemented. i have had conversations with people how different it would be if there was not a runoff in georgia and if the republicans had won outright, would you be see

. >> i should say viewers you have worked for romney, mitt romney. mitt romney was one of the early ones to stand up, if you will, against the things the president had done after the election. do you think more republicans will go that way and do you think they'll try to create a new party, a post trump party from here? >> i think there will be an acknowledgement of reality. if the states certify their election results, we saw more today, more over the next week or so. they are the same in terms of not understanding or recognizing the results of this election. i think they have to come around. i think it's reality. in temples of what happens next, it will be interesting to see. donald trump has talked about running again in 2024. there are a lot of other ambitious republicans out there wanting to run in 2024. i think the republican party, they're elements, policy elements, for example, focussing on working class americans more, those kinds of things we are going to see the party try and adopt more of, but in terms of the personalities, the most inter

mitt romney and ben sasse were the first.mney saying it is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by an american president. manu raju on capitol hill with more on this. who is speaking up now and what are they saying? >> reporter: senior republicans that served in the house and senate some time, raising concerns about the president's tactics. one of them out of michigan said it is time for the president to concede. he said all of the allegations of voter fraud in detroit simply are not there. others also echoing concerns, at least saying it is time for the transition process to begin. senator lamar alexander that chairs a key senate committee made clear at least they should allow for the vaccine, discussions over the vaccine distribution to begin, saying if there's any chance that joe biden will be the next president, looks like he has a very good chance. the trump administration should provide the biden team with all transition materials, resources and meetings necessary to ensure smooth transition so both si

there we have the media image that just ends up hurting mitt romney. they're defeated, and that's that. okay. 2016. we are going to spend a lot more time on 2016 in future classes. i think everyone should remember this pretty clearly. of course, it was hillary clinton against donald trump. tim kaine was senator from virginia and mike pence the former governor of indiana. i've said this before. i might have given you seven in the first class but i'm going to say it again, and that is, if someone tells you that they knew that donald trump was going to win in 2016, they knew it, they were convinced. they're full of baloney. there was nobody who identified trump as the likely winner in 2016. 5:38, real kalil politics, morning consult, huh-uh. everybody thought that hillary clinton was going to win. even trump did not think he was going to win. though i've always wondered about that, because i think he's a very competitive man, and i think that as the election went along, his audiences grew. the enthusiasm for him grew, and i think that he really enjoyed it

mitt romney, we cannot gather 20 meete in a carwash to because nobody liked him. he did not bring the party together. trump has brought the party together. right, let the democratic party go to the left and let's make the deal and meet in the middle. you people have let us down a bad road -- let us down about road for 30 years. i'm tired of centrists. ?ost: is that what happened when republicans held the majority in the house, when you were there serving speaker paul ryan, is that the strategy and did it work? guest: that caller is a great example of the state of our politics. there is very little center. i would argue that there's very little dealmaking going on. we are very divided and both parties have largely taken the approach that you stick with each other and bring out your base and fire up your run voters and that the path ahead. volatile type of politics. but i would disagree little bit, does not lead to a lot of deals being made. what ends up happening is you have a breakdown in the legislative process because there's no compromise at any stage. you have

you did that for mitt romney. election,win that explain the process for when these campaigns start thinking about a transition of power. guest: it is an interesting history. until 2010 there was no legal requirement for campaigns to prepare. in 2010 the presidential transition act passed. it provided that it was not just something they could do, it was a responsibility. of candidates who are representing major parties to organize transitions. so, transitions generally start as early as april. certainly by may, because there is just too much to do in organizing the national government to do it in 75 days between the election and inauguration. it is a quite surprisingly sophisticated, can be, operation. host: what does it entail? guest: there are really four responsibilities. the first is to prepare to put a team on the field, if you will. organize a white house staff, a cabinet to fill the most important senate-confirmed positions. they have to be cleared. getting a running start is important. the second district -

because you know, i've been studying up on mitt romney because of the fact that as i say, i'm going to have him a guest tomorrow. back in 2012 when he was the losing candidate, it was about 11:30 at night when we called ohio and the presidency for barack obama and romney had, as all of these candidates do, had an army of lawyers ready to go out to airports, to go around the country, and challenge, and there are always questions about vote counts in various states and he waited for 90 minutes, romney did and then he called president obama and he conceded and that is what people do. it's always hard to accept, hillary clinton needed some time until the next morning, if you remember, before she came out and conceded to wrap their heads around it, but in the end they look at the overwhelming math and do concede and there are things that happen. the president invites, if he loses, invites the winner into the white house to have that meeting in the oval office, the two of them sitting in the wing backed chairs together. and you begin to see members of the winning team, the transition team in

bush former president and also mitt romney who of course ran unsuccessfully for the white house is now a senator really pressuring the president to concede for the good of the country and to allow for unity and harmony but there are others that have very loud voices in the on capitol hill live in the republican party senator ted cruz senator lindsey graham that are saying that the president should continue to fight his pursue his legal challenges and in fact just under way are just about to wrap up as a press conference out in nevada where the truck campaign has been releasing detailed list of the evidence it says it has of voter irregularities in nevada so the legal challenges will continue in fact the u.s. president wants to remind it was tweeting today that joe biden will claiming victory is the projected winner by and number of media outlets on twitter he said when does the lame stream media as he calls it call who our next president will be so until that vote is official and certified mid december the truck campaign believes it has a window of opportunity so it is continuing to re

when you've lost tucker carlson -- senator mitt romney weighing in.ve seen him criticize the president before, this time he gave a particularly sharp rebuke of trump's actions, writing, having fail to make a plausible case of widespread fraud or conspiracy before any court of law, the president has now resorted to overt pressure on state and local officials to sub vert the will of the people and over turn the election. it is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting american president. and our friends aft the lincoln project go even further calling on republicans to act like americans. >> most republican leaders are refusing to accept the outcome of the democratic process. it's shameful, cowardly. and unamerican. across the globe our enemies attack america by saying we really aren't a democracy. now republicans are acting like russia, iran, north korea, china. are these republicans not americans? if a president wasn't elected legally, then no one was elected legally. call your republican officials and tell them to start actin

speaking on nbc‘s meet the press, utah republican senator, mitt romney, said mr trump was within hisking about a margin of 10,000 votes or less in some cases, so a recount could change the outcome. he wants to look at irregularities, pursue that in the court, but if, as expected, those things don't change the outcome, he will accept the inevitable. he is without question the most powerful voice in our party. he will have an enormous impact on the party going forward. i believe the great majority of people who voted for donald trump want to make sure his principles and policies are pursued, so yeah, he is not disappearing by any means. he is the 900lb gorilla when it comes to the republican party. 0ur north america editorjon sopel says that there is little chance for president trump conceding anytime soon. there is pressure. apparently, melania trump believes the president should get ready to concede. that has been reported although she has put out a tweet that seems to deny that. jared kushner is reportedly, his son in law, believing that donald trump should call it a day. against th

speaking on nbc‘s meet the press, utah republican senator, mitt romney, said mr trump was within hisn party, irrespective of the outcome of the election. he has every right to call for recounts, because we are talking about a margin of 10,000 votes or less in some cases, so a recount could change the outcome. he wants to look at irregularities, pursue that in the court, but if, as expected, those things don‘t change the outcome, he will accept the inevitable. he is without question the most powerful voice in our party. he will have an enormous impact on the party going forward. i believe the great majority of people who voted for donald trump want to make sure his principles and policies are pursued, so yeah, he is not disappearing by any means. he is the 900lb gorilla ruler when it comes to the republican party. 0ur north america editorjon sopel says that there is little chance for president trump conceding anytime soon. there is pressure. there are also reports that the first lady, melania, believes that the president should concede and so too his son—in—law, jared kushner, who was

what utah republican mitt romney says the president has the right to do is find to pursue every legal avenue that one has but i think what has to be careful in the choice of words i think i think when you say that the election was corrupt. >>or stolen or rigged. that's unfortunately rather rhetoric that gets picked up by authoritarian is around the world even some of president trump's most loyal allies like former new jersey governor chris christie are growing wary of the challenges we can't back you blindly without evidence and if they don't come forward with the with the proof. >>then it's time move on that the trump campaign could announce more legal action monday as biden plans to take his first action as president elect. >>appointing his own coronavirus task force transition team member pete buttigieg says biden hopes to influence legislation during congress's lame-duck session will decide on the right course of action but i think there's a sense of urgency throughout. >>in washington. i'm jessi turnure. well some actions that president trump may still take over the next 72 days

. >> two republican senators publicly overnight opposing the president's actions, mitt romney calling it undemocratic, ben sass also weighing in. where are the others? we'll see the president a few hours from now at a time when the nation needs leadership more than ever. while he's holding up this presidential transition, thousands of americans are dying from covid as it surges and this country needs a smooth handover to ensure the smooth distribution of the key vaccines that we all so desperately need. let's begin with joe johns at the white house on this invitation by the president to michigan state lawmakers for what? >> reporter: the bottom line is it's pretty clear that the president is in desperation mode right now, this is the hail mary pass to try to get the michigan and other battleground state legislatures to move in, overturn the popular vote and pretty much name electors that wouldn't otherwise have been sent to washington in the electoral college, and it doesn't sound like it's going to work, quite frankly. in fact, we do know that the president has invited the michigan s

too few of them, mitt romney is an exception, susan collins is an exception. too few of them have been willing to come forward and just say the obvious so that this country can get back on its feet. >> do you have any leverage with the gsa? >> no. when it comes to this, you can imagine, i mean, this president is firing people right and left who don't obey his political orders. we've seen it happen in the department of defense. so i expect the gsa would be no different. no, it's very difficult to really have any sway or any persuasion over this person. >> you've got another colleague now, rick scott, testing positive today, announcing that today, with the coronavirus. and we know about senator grassley, of course, and are wishing him well. but families across the country are facing a huge economic crisis, as well as the health care workers who don't have supplies. money is running out. we heard from governor beshear yesterday that the governors will be out of money by the end of december for any of the -- not only unemployment insurance, but ppe and other suppl