tell our viewers about this oval office meeting, which is raising all sorts of alarms. >> reporter: it certainly is, wolf. the president held a meeting in the oval office just yesterday that turned heated as the president gave voice to some of these outlandish ideas to overturn the election brought forward by sidney powell, that attorney who was on the president's legal team, and who has floated a series of theorys about the 2020 election, as well as michael flynn, her client and former national security adviser who pleaded guilty to investigators and pardoned by president trump. sources are telling cnn that the president discussed during this meeting the possibility of naming sidney powell as a special counsel to investigate allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election. another idea that was discussed, wolf, is one that was floated earlier this week by michael flynn. watch. >> he could order the -- within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and place them in those states and basically rerun an election in those states. people are talking about mar

a truly explosive meeting in the oval office.ruly outlandish ideas brought to the president of the united states to try to overturn the election that now has been officially certified by all 50 states and the district of colombia as well as the electoral college i want to bring in our political commentator michael smirkonish. you can watch him every saturday. a regular viewer, mile. when you hear about marshall law. marshall law being discussed in the oval office merely to defy the will of the majority of american voters, who goes through your mind? >> it's scary. i also think maybe i'm misjudged the situation, washington. as i've noted with you on prior saturday nights, the goal posts keep shifting. it was election day november 3rd. then we talked about the electoral college december 14. now the trump focus has shifted to the congressional actions on january the 6th and i have believed that it's all a cash grab and that on january 6th, there will be something else that will enable the president to continue to fund raise all the

reagan with the 10 candidates in our oval office. it was all ready. in the first debate, they are standing at the base of air force one, and in this one, they are saying, i want this as my office. that is a wonderful tribute to mrs. reagan. another program we do is the situation room experience. behind me, i'm actually in the situation room. a little bit of history, 2006, president bush had beat situation room renovated with new technology and design. we are very fortunate to have one of the rooms for secure video transmission site. we created it. here are the sets. this treasure the actual room. everything in the room, with the exception of the chairs and monitors is from the white house. when you sit in this room, you feel like you are in the white house. we created an educational program like nowhere anywhere in the world. we are quite proud of it. i will show you one more slide, and what we are going to do is go to a video. we clearly do not have enough time on this broadcast today. but you can see the white house press podium, part of the game tha

it destroyed the oval office. fortunately, there were not of important state papers in the oval office at that time. fire. a four alarm it was huge. the hoover's were having a party for staff. -- this isd to hoover kept the party going. -- misses hoover cap the party going. the president and his sons went to go see if they could save things out of that area. the following year, when they had the christmas party, misses hoover gave the boys of staff members toy fire trucks as little -- a little personal joke. the oval office was destroyed, one of the incredible things about misses hoover, she realized that on the second floor what were rooms were actually the original lincoln cabinet room. people remember that print we end with, that is the lincoln cabinet room. as,er used that essentially, his office. to whatpreferred that was a restored oval office. in fact, franklin roosevelt, when he became president moved it. because it was in the middle of the east wing, and had to move it to the end so he could have easier a

there was a heat oval office meeting involving the words martial law. we learned the trump campaign is once again petitioning the u.s. supreme court over the results in pennsylvania. what is going on over there and when will it stop? >> reporter: what's going on over here is the president of the united states isn't focused on the rollout of the vaccine or the worsening coronavirus pandemic nor is he talking with the seriousness of this cyber attack that u.s. government officials believe was carried out by russia. instead the president is still grasping at straws to try to overturn the results of a democratic election that he lost. most recently we saw the trump campaign is now filing this petition to the supreme court asking them to overturn three rulings by the pennsylvania state supreme court essentially seeking to invalidate millions of legally cast votes in the state of pennsylvania, despite the fact that the electoral college in that state and in others has already voted. and what we're also seeing is in this oval office meeting on friday, the pres

but i think it's important to understand, this is just another day at the office at the oval. this is just another day at the office. there's a theory out there, i know, that trump is getting worse as january dthe 20th approaches. no he's not. it's the same behavior repeated over and over again. let's take the idea of putting military capabilities into the swing states and running the election again. look, there's a difference between incompetence and ma lev lens. in trump ace case, this is incompetence. he's unfit for the job. i don't think he's ever read the constitution. if he has, he clearly doesn't understand it. and if he did understand it at one point, he's forgotten it. that's why the burden again and again falls on senior advisors to push him back and reign in. i would just suggest since a lot of the members of congress on the hill, particularly republicans, this would be a good night to talk about the constitution and why the president can't invoke martial law. >> if you have been in the oval office and heard something like that going ahead and trying to impose martia

and it destroyed the oval office. fortunately there weren't a lot of important state papers in the oval office at that time. and it was a four-alarm fire. so it was huge. the hoovers were having a party for staff and they had to -- mrs. hoover kept the party going. the president and his sons went to go see what they could to save things out of that area. the following year, when they had the christmas party, mrs. hoover gave the boys of staff members toy fire trucks as again, a kind of little personal joke. but because the oval office was destroyed, one of the incredible things about mrs. hoover, she did an unpublished history of the white house and its furnishings and realized that on the second floor what were bedrooms were actually the original lincoln cabinet room. so people remember that print that we ended with, that's the lincoln cabinet room. lou restored that to its original appearance and hoover used that as essentially his office. he much preferred that to what was a restored oval office. and in fact frankl

they talked about martial law inside the oval office." reports that powell met with white house staffers last night about her pitch for some kind of an executive order to see and examine voting machines. joining us now, "new york times" reporter, "the times" reporter who initially broke this story, cnn analyst, maggie haberman. i am thrilled you are here this morning. because when you speak this sentence out loud, that there was a meeting inside the white house where the possibility of declaring martial law was discussed, i don't think we can let that wash over us. that seems like a really big deal. >> even the mere possibility that the president was asking about military intervention is, of course, a big deal. you know, we have had several mini fire alarms over four years and i think, frankly, people have become numb to what they hear about this president doing. this meeting was different and different in part, john, because of what he was saying and in part because a number of people who are typically, you know, in the president's camp

you have a clash in the oval office.nk we're going to see more of this for the next month, abbie. i think the president is going to continue to tweet that he won the election, muse about things in private. i'm skeptical anything is going to come of it. i don't see what you can do. perhaps some action on the house floor next month, but i'm just not sure beyond the sound and the fury what that's going to amount to. >> it's a good point that according to cnn, "the new york times" is reporting most of the officials in that room rejected these ridiculous ideas, but also at that meeting, trump discussed naming his former lawyer, sydney powell, as a special counsel to investigate the election fraud. he talked about giving her a security clearance. this is the lawyer who trump said wasn't his lawyer after she claimed venezuela was part of a bizarre conspiracy to steal the election. what does this tell you that these are the people who the president is bringing in to the white house and has his ear in these last 30 days? >> well,

and then he would lead them into the oval office which would be kind of a jaw dropping experience forxcept he could not have been dressed more inappropriately for really what is one of the most semisacred places in american politics. that never would have happened with ronald reagan. he never appeared in the oval office except when he was completely pulled together, suit, tie and treating the oval office as the temple that in a way it is. >> every day in the bill clinton white house was chaotic, this day more so than most. there is a quality disorganization. the white house staff wasn't really pulling together. partly it was the way they handled the transition. it's a lesson for future white houses. if you have a bad transition and you are late in creating the white house staff, then you're not going to be as successful in getting up and running quickly. >> i would think people looking back on these first 10 0 days would say he had a very ambitious agenda, knew whaet he wanted to accomplish, worked hard, pushed his staff well. >> there were pride points to be sure, but it's not a stra

that seems to be clear what happened in the oval office. sidney powell being there now three times in the last few days. do you have a sense how serious people are taking these conversations within the white house? >> well, i think within the white house they're taking them with some measure of seriousness because of the seriousness of what we're talking about here. you don't just throw out things like martial law in the oval office and brush it aside. at the same time the response from the republican party and from people around the president has been to say essentially, well, he won't go there, even president trump won't cross that line. and they're waiting out the clock hoping we get to january 20th and biden is sworn in and we do have a peaceful transition of power. but i think the reality is the president has increasingly surrounded himself with people telling conspiracy theories and telling him the things he wants to hear. even though the guardrails of this election have held up and pointing ato one obvious thing. >> let me play what

you've been in the oval office with four different presidents, multiple administrations. were listening to people screaming about many issues i can imagine but i'm assuming martial law and talking about seizing voting machines and making baseless claims of fraud weren't some of those issues. >> never. martial law? never. seizing voting machines, never. coming into the white house after you leave and appointing special counsel after you leave never. john bolten was here last night and said if you are in the oval office as senior adviser you just have to push back. with all due respect i think you have to do a lot more than that if you are in the white house in the oval office and martial law is under discussion. you have to do everything you can to stop it. >> what does that include? >> that includes alerting the secretary of defense, alerting the chairman of the joint chiefs, alerting others who are going to have responsibility. you want the justice department clued in. when you become senior at visor in the white house you don't get there with senate confirmation but you

a dry martini in one hand and could walk into the oval office and tell lbj the domino theory was flaweding forward through the veto corleone of the cia and then you've got bill casey and an amazing cast of characters all the way up to gina, the first woman to run the cia. you are right, the book focuses a lot on that relationship between the president and cia director. it's almost impossible balancing act aci director because he or she the one hand as to tell the president hard truths. while also keeping the president year. that's a really tough challenge even in the best of times and in current times, it's practically mission impossible. >> i don't know if you saw the coming film over the weekend -- >> yes. >> one of the things that becomes clear, how hard that particular relationship generally and how much harder it was under trump. just going down that line a little bit, who had the worst relationship? i read the book so i kind of think i know what you're going to say. then who has the best relationship? >> it would have to be the worst relationship with the president. it's a really

. >>> martial law in the oval office? well, sources are telling cnn this was actually brought up in a meeting with trump and his advisers. and just the fact that it was even brought up means trouble for democracy. ma my case, up next. . . everyone has a story. a history. we have different needs and challenges. but one thing we share is wanting to make our lives the best they can be. if you have medicaid and medicare, a dual complete plan from unitedhealthcare can help. giving you more benefits at no extra cost to you. and one-on-one help managing your care... ...to get you the help you need, whatever your story may be. with dual complete from unitedhealthcare, there's more for you. my best friend's father died of covid-19. then my father caught it. wearing a mask, washing your hands. you have the power to protect the ones you love. >>> martial law, is that really where we are? the military in the position to enforce the law, and even usurp the roles of elected officials. civilians would be subject to military control. has

. >>> first, we want to bring you cnn's new reporting about a tense exchange in the oval office. sources tell cnn there was a contentious meeting at the white house friday where staff argued over highly controversial ideas to overturn the election. cnn's jeremy diamond has the details. >> reporter: while president trump isn't just publicly refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election, he is also privately still grasping for ideas and ways to possibly overturn the results of the 2020 election. sources telling cnn that those ideas were floated during an oval office meeting that the president held on friday that grew heated and ugly at times, according to our sources, as two people, two allies of the president, pushed some really deranged ideas about overturning the results of the election. those two people are sydney powell, the attorney who is part of the president's legal team and who has been pushing these deranged conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, including suggesting that the deceased venezuelan leader, hugo chavez, was behind rigging the 2020 election, as we

but i think it's important to understand, this is just another day at the office at the oval. is is just another day at the office. >>> sam, even if it goes nowhere except the fact it was swirling conversations taking place, how do you see that some damage has been done, even the president entertaining the idea of martial law? >> i think trump will go down in history as a u.s. president who again did not support democrat set, and likes to be surrounded by unhinged conspiracy theorists. that's his legacy. i think the world is starting to tune trump out. i think the world acknowledges there would be a peaceful transfer of power and frankly is paying more attention to what president-elect biden has to say. at this point, one of the safest things can do is ignore the sitting president, and look for congress to certify the results of the election in early january, for the inauguration on january 20th, and for a democracy-minded president to come into office on january 20th. >> jeff, is this what the next 30 days will look like? every day there will be something said or done by the p

. >> reporter: abc news now learning of a heated oval office meeting friday. in attendance, lawyer sidney powell, the conspiracy theorist trump recently fired from his legal team. sources telling abc news, trump contemplated trying to get powell high-level security clearances, and naming her as special counsel to investigate the 2020 election. a move the president has no power to make. retired military general michael flynn, who trump recently pardoned, suggesting the president take the unprecedented steps of declaring martial law and ordering the military to re-run elections in critical states he lost. flynn first floated the idea

he invited him into the oval office to share a power bar with him. one of my book signings. he's now a sophomore at duke. and told me how much this picture meant to him. and he realizes, now, the good work that his mom was doing. there is still some lobbying to be done. lots of phone calls in the limo with his legislative director. and i think this was the phone call where he realized that they probably had enough votes. and he took his lucky charms out of his pocket. i saw that he took his lucky charms out. that morning. i was like, okay, this is a good sign. >> let's get this done. >> the bill is passed. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> he felt, on this day, that he got something done that bettered people's lives. did you know that some aluminum free deodorants only mask odor? secret aluminum free helps eliminate odor instead of just masking it. and is made with 3x more odor fighters. with secret, keep it fresh every day. secret. >>> oh, got to switch cameras here. sorry about that, sir. >> doing all right? >> yep. just got to switch. caught me in an e

this is why michael flynn never belongs near the white house let alone inside the oval office and hisawyer sidney powell. i've been talking about this since the transition in 2016, how dangerous i thought general flynn was. i sat with him in security briefings with the then-candidate donald trump and with president donald trump and i will tell you he's not fit to be giving advice to anyone. and my advice is to keep michael flynn and sidney powell out of the oval office and those bad ideas will stay out of the oval office as well. >> it's hard to believe that sidney powell, michael flynn, and rudy giuliani was giving this advice as he said publicly in a radio interview about martial law being implemented in six battleground states to see if this election, which has now been certified by the electoral college, it's been -- everyone, including bill barr the outgoing attorney general have said there's no evidence of widespread fraud. why is the president bringing these people and, for that matter, a man you know, rudy giuliani, whatever happened to him? >> listen, wolf, the electoral coll

his son and his son's friend who are also there for the oval office meeting and tested positive. president elect joe biden had his first daily briefing today as battleground states complete recounts requested by president trump's legal team. >>as kareen wynter reports now even with the lingering legal battles biden continues to build his white house staff. >>with additional cabinet nominations expected today president elect joe biden already delivering on a promise to build a diverse administration. he just me janet yellen as treasury secretary a move that still requires senate confirmation but would make allen the first female in this position she tweeted this morning recovery hinges on restoring the

. >> gerald ford brought to the oval office the values first learned in a very different place.nd rapids, michigan. born in 1913, he's lived a typical small town american life. his community was his classroom. >> grand rapids, when i was growing up, was a community that engendered family values. my parents, my mother and my stepfather, indoctrinated me in the importance of the family. but the whole community had the same viewpoint. >> the world first noticed gerald ford as a football player, strong, and a team player. >> attending the university of michigan in ann arbor he would eventually become the wolverines most valuable player and entertain office from the pros but he had already decided that his future play in the courtroom, not the gridiron. he left ann arbor for yale in the fall of 1935. it wasn't long before the faculty offered coach ford an opening in their law program. he was ready for the challenge and in 1941, gerald ford graduated in the top third of his class. >> returning home to grand rapids he opened a law practice with his friend philip -- but their plans were

and then those really bad ideas will stay out of the oval office as well. i still have not seen the evidence, nor has any court seen the evidence. in fact, every court that's looked at the evidence has not supported these cases. in fact, they've thrown them out. losing hurts. but in the end when you get in this game, you understand that that's a possibility. you have to live with it and you have to move on. >> joining me now is carol leonnig, "a very stable genius" author. and working in three republican administrations, president reagan, bush 41 and bush 43. peter, let me begin with you. your reaction to that oval office meeting friday night and all the news lines that have come out of it. >> deeply disturbing but not at all shocking. look, donald trump was an open book. this is a man whose sociopathic tendencies were obvious before his presidency and manifest during his presidency. once he got to the end where he was a loser, which in trump world is the worst of all, that he would lose power, that he would lose adulation, a whole series of deeply reckless

reaction to this new reporting you just heard from jeremy that there was actually, hard to believe, an oval office discussion that included talk of invoking martial law to try to overturn the will of the american people in this election, what is your reaction when you hear that? >> it is unbelievably disturbing, that the president is -- he is talking about basically leading a coup against the united states government and destroying our constitution. and with all due respect to michael flynn, we have never had martial law to impose an election result that would essentially shred the constitution and end our republic as we know it. there needs to be strong bipartisan pushback against this. it is an unbelievably dangerous thing for the president to be talking about. and it's shocking. it all makes us know, getting to

i've been in the oval office where he reads an entire speech allowed. for the small audience of people sitting around the desk. and that is when he's, that's typically when he was doing his first major edit of the speech. if it was, and then if it was going off to a city in the heartland and read the speech, there wouldn't be a practice session, but there would be practice sessions in the family feeder. in the east wing of the white house, and the family theater is about as deep as this room. and about half the with maybe. and set up like a little movie theater, and set up the teleprompter. but he's the teleprompter, i know president bomb use a lot. president bush probably used it. for five times a year. but he would practice. it practiced those things, and sometimes he would end it while reading the speech from the teleprompter. and stay there with us while we did it. but in the ordinary course of things i know there was some, i just don't know, i never really ask them how much time he spent with it. >> my understanding, you nobody better than i do. my

. >> martial law in the oval office? sources are telling cnn this was actually brought up in a meeting with trump and his advisers. and just the fact that it was even brought up means trouble for democracy. my case, up next. the usual gifts are just not going to cut it. we have to find something else. good luck! what does that mean? we are doomed. [ laughter ] that's it... i figured it out! we're going to give togetherness. that sounds dumb. we're going to take all those family moments and package them. hmm. [ laughing ] that works. my best friend's father died of covid-19. then my father caught it. wearing a mask, washing your hands. you have the power to protect the ones you love. >>> martial law, huh? is that really where we are? you do realize that would mean that the military would push civilian authorities aside, be in the position to enforce the law, and even usurp the roles of elected officials. civilians would be subject to military control. not exactly the definition of a democracy or america, for that matter.

whether or not she got into the oval office.not like you can just ring the doorbell and walk in. someone's got to invite you. three out of the last four days, she's been there and someone's had her there to spew these bizarre thoughts that she has. and, john, to that point. you know, what about this -- this league of extraordinary lunatics or confederacy of conspiracists who have been surrounding the president over the last few days? you know, sydney powell. michael flynn. steve bannon's out there, now, spatting this stuff. not to mention, rudy giuliani. what do you make of these people? >> well, it's certainly quite disappointing, their behavior. there's going to haunt them for the rest of their lives. people are not going to forget this behavior. it seems to be a new norm, within the republican party, unfortunately. so, i think they're playing to the man who they are most attracted to. and trying to puff up his ego. i doubt it's working. i think trump has seen the handwriting on the wall. so, you know, in another time and anot

he knew the white house and he could walk into the oval office, close the door and tell barack obama what he didn't want to hear, and that's essential in both jobs. >> you portrayed him as being not just an honest broker but like a brilliant strategist. >> he was, he was. one of the great infighting stories that i felt in the leon panetta chapter is about the time that poor denny blair who was then director of national intelligence made the mistake of trying to take on leon panetta in a bureaucratic struggle over who would appoint the cia station chiefs. well, i guess you could on paper make the argument that the director of national intelligence outranked leon and, therefore, denny blair ought to make that appointment. but in the real world blair should have known that that was turf that was jealously guarded at langley. blair sent out a directive without informing panetta, to all the station saying that he, denny blair, would be appointing the new station chiefs. well, panetta waited about a half hour and sent out another message to all the stations saying, disregard the previous m

no real challenge from the oval office. now, president-elect biden will take office 30 days from now, and have to confront this head on. deliver a stern warning to putin that this is unacceptable, and can't happen again. perhaps consider some sort of retaliatory espionage or, you know, cyber measures of their own to declare that this won't be tolerated. also, remember, it's not just russia. this is free reign right now, and other nations are watching the united states's response or lack thereof, and there are other countries who would love to exhibit similar attacks here and perhaps may in the next 30 days. so biden will take office needing to send a firm message that this won't be tolerated, as he works to repair alliances and reassure allies that america is back on the world stage to undo the harm his advisers say that president trump has done. >> pete strzok, just try to frame this effort that the biden administration will have to undertake to assess the damage done from four years, and all we have to work with, you were

>>> and we are learning more about a heated exchange in the oval office.ne of president trump's allies, actually, says the president could use martial law to overturn the u.s. election. >>> we are covering major developments in the coronavirus pandemic for you. unfolding, on each side of the atlantic. while viewed together, they show how complex and fluid the situation remains, and how hope often goes hand in hand with hardship, these days. in the u.s., a second vaccine is set for delivery. the cdc director just needs to give the moderna vaccine the final, green light. it comes during some of the d k darkest days in the pandemic in the country. in the uk, the prime minister has put parts of england, including london, on a strict, two-week lockdown. it's because of a new variant of the virus that he says is up to 70% more infectious. boxes of the moderna vaccine are already being packed and loaded, and officials say trucks should start rolling out on sunday. that means americans could start receiving the vaccine, come monday. cnn's pete muntean spent the da

. >> gerald ford brought to the oval office values first learned in a very different place, 1913 in grand rapids michigan. the community was his classroom. >> grand rapids when i was growing up with the community that engendered family values. my parents, my mother and my stepfather, indoctrinated me the importance of the family. but the whole community have the same viewpoint. >> the world first noticed gerald ford as a football player, strong for his age. enthusiastic competitor and a team player. attending university of michigan he would eventually become the wolverines most valuable player and entertain authors offers from the pros but he already decided his future lay in the courtroom not the gridiron. he left ann arbor for yale in the fall of 1935 hired to coach boxing and football. it wasn't long before the faculty offered him a opening in the law program. he was ready for the challenge. in 1941 he graduated top third of his class. returning home to grand rapids he opened a law practice with his friend. their plans were interrupted by foreign dictators. gerald ford, the navy ensign

now he is back in the oval office raising the prospect of martial law.it sink in that he now has the president's ear? >> oh, yeah, i think this absolutely needs to be out there. this is why i think people kind of overlooked sidney powell for a long time as this fringe character. you know what? the fringe is calling the shots in this white house. and while there used to be more guard rails around the president of the united states that would have prevented the idea of something like martial law being invoked from ever being uttered, this is just the reality of the situation. there are no more guard rails around president trump and the people who ordinarily would try to talk some sense into him. have given up in capexasperatio. >> call it fringe, call it conspiricists. they're currently calling the shots. >>> the president is focused on baselessly trying to overturn this election. congress is trying to stay focused on that russia hack. i want to bring in congresswoman mikie sherrill, a democrat from my home state of new jersey and member of the house armed

she was also at the oval office on friday discussing martial law and the election. what is the latest on these meetings? >> reporter: good morning, erica. one month to go in the administration and here's where we are. covid raging from coast-to-coast. we've had an unprecedented attack on the cybersecurity of the united states that could still be ongoing and the headline from the white house is about an unhinged meeting over the weekend to talk about overturning the results of the election. as president trump refuses to accept his defeat in public, behind the walls of the white house, he's reportedly continuing efforts to overturn a lost election, while promoting baseless claims about voter fraud. and sources tell cnn he's bringing back a controversial member of his legal team to help. attorney sidney powell has repeatedly pushed unfounded conspiracy theories about the election, including false claims about rigged voting machines. a source tells cnn, trump is considering appointing powell as a special counsel to investigate voter fraud allegations, which have been de

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. >>> and we have details of a heated oval office exchange where trump allies floated the idea of enactingartial law to try to overturn the election. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to you, our viewers here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom. " >>> we're waiting for the director of the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention to give the final okay to moderna's covid vaccine. that decision by dr. robert redfield could come at any time. earlier saturday a cdc panel recommended the moderna vaccine for americans 18 and older. the head of the government's vaccine initiative, "operation warp speed," says about 6 million doses of the new vaccine will ship out today. that means the first shots could be administered as early as monday. this will be the second covid vaccine the u.s. has authorized in a week. the cdc says at least 272,000 americans received their first shot of the pfizer-biontech drug since it was distributed last week, but unlike the moderna vaccine, this one is authorized for people as young as 1

tonight several members of congress just leaving a meeting in the oval office.s a new form of coronavirus, one that may be more contagious causing concern tonight. it's impacting holiday travel. a number of countries and airlines are taking action. and also breaking news, the house moments away now from voting on a long awaited and long overdue coronavirus

inside the oval office, as soon as i wrapped up, questions and answers between the press and the president, let's watch together. >> covid relief may be in sight, do you support this bill? >> they are getting very close, i wanted to happen and i believe they are getting very close. >> you will support it? >> i will, absolutely. >> mr. president, can i ask you to respond to the comments by your integrity general who has indicated he has not seen evidence of fraud to overturn the election results. given that, why is now not the time to concede? >> president trump: when he looks he will see the kind of evidence you are seeing in the georgia senate, they are going through hearings right now in georgia and finding tremendous volumes. they haven't looked very hard which is a disappointment, to be honest with you. it's massive fraud whether you go to wisconsin where we just filed a case or michigan or if you look at what's happening in georgia, pennsylvania. if you look at nevada which is moving along very rapidly, for arizona, you saw those numbers come out yesterday, we found massive fraud and

he's pulled up in the oval office meeting with conspiracy theorists. he apparently hosted michael flynn, the former national security adviser there who has been openingly calling for martial law. at the same time, he wakes up the next morning and is tweeting, no, russia had nothing to do with this. it's a very, very alarming situation when the president of the united states is so disconnected from reality. and this is an ongoing threat, by the way. the government made clear they have not yet made -- understood the full extent of how u.s. government systems are compromised. >> and it may take months to finally get to the full extent of how compromised we really are. really just sitting ducks here. and, doug, i want to ask you about general michael flynn now that susan brought him up. the one commonality here is this is focusing on the president himself. not on the fact that there's no deal in congress that millions of americans are hungry and don't have jobs and are desperate for money that russia just staged the largest attack on u.s. democracy here, h

presidents going forward, it's a green light for full-on crimes in the oval office because there's really no accountability in the office because you can't prosecute a sitting president. the congress won't impeach. and no accountability office out of office potentially because of these pardons. >> you make a fascinating point about the timing that people should be aware of, kim. this idea that these pardons came down today. bill barr's last day was yesterday. is there some connection, people should be wondering about why yesterday was the last day. none of these pardons all of a sudden sprung up. it wasn't as if paul manafort or roger stone or kushner were convicted this morning. this was probably in the makings. tim, i want to go to you. think about what kim's point is here about the green light. i know you are a historian. you are a marvelous one at that. i'm thinking about the green lights going forward. but i'm also thinking from historical context here. i want to hear from you. trump has now pardoned at least five people charged in connection to the russia probe. but no matter how ma

amazing from the oval office today. we got to see it all. here on "outnumbered overtime," the news continues. >> i don't know of any data that says you should shut down outdoor restaurants and bars. we do, if you're in a surge place, need to limit indoor dining and indoor bars. >> that's white house testing czar admiral brett gerrar. he says the science does not support outdoor dining bans. his words validate bar and restaurant owner pushing back saying rules are putting them out of business. a restaurant owner in minnesota is facing heavy fines. possible jail time for defying the governor's restrictions on indoor dining. we have the owner of haven's garden in lind, minnesota. she joins me now. she has a beautiful daughter with her. i know you have two. thanks for being with me today. first of all, i've heard you talk about this with the indoor dining. we have situations where outdoor dining is going on. what is happening to you and why are you facing possible jail time? >> well, the governor, you know, applied unlawful and unconstitutional

pushing the trump administration to seize and inspect voting machines, coming days after a heated oval office meeting involving the president, sidney powell, michael flynn, former national security adviser and we learned the idea of marshal law, using the military to redo the election was discussed, that happening a day after michael flynn floated that idea. it's unclear whether the president endorsed it, but we have learned others in the room pushed back forcefully and shot it down. >> joining is admiral brett giroir. we learned russia has banned travel from the united kingdom, india, canada. concern over this new variant of coronavirus which is spreading beyond control in the united kingdom. what is the latest on what the trump administration, this country knows about this new variant? >> well, thank you for having me on about this important topic. i had an extensive discussion with dr. redfield and his top people last night and this is what we know. the variant that's being discussed was first identified in september, so it's not something that just arose in the last week. it has become of

panel today and others of you'll have as guests of to explain what on earth is happening in the oval office and in the white house. but as i noted, it's actually a month from today that president-elect joe biden will take the oath of office and there's just too much going on in this country from thousands of people dying every day of covid to millions of people out of work to relationships that have long been frayed over the last years, for us to worry too much about what is happening in the oval office. we know he's tried to challenge the results of the election. they were certified this last week. leadership of the republican party acknowledged the outcome of the election. we started to see some work together to get nominees confirmed, to get packages in place. that's where our of focus is going -- focus is going to be in the weeks ahead. chris: you have said several times and it's exactly right that a month from today joe biden will be in the west front of the capital and take the oath of office. does the president-elect care whether donald trump attends the inauguration? does he even wa

i gotta get into the oval office here. it took about three minutes, but all that time i knew the uniformed officers and the agents, they were gonna get this individual. and i was confident that if we stay in an armored vehicle. you don't know if someone jumps offense, are they armed? why do they have? so stay in the safe area. could we have evacuated? yes. but i had confidence that we were going to get, him and we did in a matter of seconds. and then i open the door, and let president bush out. it might be hard for you to see this, but i know, from the event he is smirking. because he knew i was sweating through my suit because we were holding in the car. >> for those of you who -- he likes to run on time to like to wait very often. in 1975, you saved president ford's life. tell us that story, i think we have a video that we are going to show you of the attempted assassination. and then you can talk us through that. >> all right. >> it was mid morning in sacramento when president ford left the hotel to walk over the state c

there was a discussion inside the oval office. i take it from your statement of the impeachment trial that you may not be surprised but how alarmed are you at this? >> this is the same situation that we all had with the trump presidency. this is who donald trump is. he would like to be an autocrat and staying in power by chaeatig or lying or stealing, he'll do il it. it is deeply damaging towards democracy. he's creating a permanent class of a grave american who thinks their election was stolen from them. he's going to go out of office the same way he came in like a wrecking ball destroying the foundation of our democracy. >> what are the guard rails the next 30 days? >> i think we can expect the president is going to send in further madness as he sits the oval office and worrying about his own liability and financial debt and everything else. in terms of the guard rails, they're the same guard rails ultimately that we always had. the people of the government, will they stand up to him? some will and some have and all too many cap

so we are left with a 7/8 scale of the oval office. and i want to show you this space, this is the workspace that lady bird johnson used after the library opened in 1971 and intermittently to her death. she passed away in 2007. she looked for a good number of passing inwing lbj's 1973. this space is left in the state in which she left it with some , the photosflavor on the desk give a good sense of what she was all about and the style that she tried to cultivate. so i will stop there and turn things over to patrick and to any questions. patrick: before we get to the questions for folks using the chat function in youtube, you can ask your questions. i see a few are starting to come in now. feel free to put those in there and we'll try to get through as many as we can. and i wanted to thank everyone from all over the country here, we've got pittsburgh, st. louis, summerset, pennsylvania, fairfax, virginia, northern oklahoma ft. , collins, colorado, washington, salt lake city, maine, niagra falls, brooklyn, we have pretty much the whole c

this is a recreation of the oval office as i'm sure you can tell. in its johnson era state.he story goes something like this, lbj really wanted a full-scale replica of the oval office in the johnson presidential library. and for some reason, the planners didn't include it. they thought it was going to be too big. it wasn't architectly possible. and lbj wasn't pleased with the one thing he really wanted was being excluded. but the architects and the designers had to go back to lbj and one imagines their trepidation, we think we can do it, but we can't do it at 100% scale. so we're left with a seven-eighths scale of the oval office. and this is the work space that mrs. johnson, lady bird johnson, used in the -- really after the library opened in 1971 and s intermittently to her death. lived for a good number of years following lbj's positiviassing . this space is left in the state in which she left it with some nice 1960s flavor, i think, to it and the photos on the desk, et cetera, that give a good sense of what she was all about and the style that she tried to cultivate. so

we now know that last week michael flynn was in the oval office. of course he's not in the administration, but if we look at how the trump administration began, michael flynn was the first casualty of it. having lied to the fbi about his contacts during the transition with the russian ambassador. we're now looking at the end of the trump administration with the very same convicted michael flynn urging president trump to use i guess putinesque measures, using martial law to overturn this election. i don't why putin has over trump, what i there's a strange denialism about anything that russia does. but i do know there are other people who are close to russia and who are also close to trump in these crucial, very, very important last 30 days where he still has the massive powers of the u.s. president. >> well, while we're on the subject of michael flynn, president trump is looking for new ways to undermine the election results and that includes a flynn push to idea of declaring martial law in swing states and then using a conspiracy theorist to help o