the only person listening to randy quaid is his therapist, which, unfortunately, is an old boot he putlso got a retweet today from the president for his award-winning pro-administration monologue from last year. >> is this the way america goes? from george washington to george soros? wake up, you sleeping giant. the lilliputians that tie you down with their fantastic dreams of icebergs melting into dinosaurs and train tracks stretching across the pacific waters. trump trumpets reveling, and it's time to heed the call. >> stephen: "thank you, mr. quaid, but this is an audition for a processed beef stick. so if you could just snap into the slim jim and not mention the trilateral commission." that would be great." that's the more toned-down of the two randy quaid monologues the president of the united states retweeted today. here's the bananas one: >> fox news daytime ratings have completely collapsed, weekend daytime, even worse. very sad to watch this happen. they forgot what made them successful, what got them there. they forgot the golden goose. >> stephen: i believe he's using what's

his loyalty by retweeting several of randy quaid's political opinions such as this one: "we've lost confidence in the system that elects our leaders. 79 million americans believe election was rigged, the results fraudulent. we need an in-person-only paper ballot re-vote, especially in the states where flagrant irregularities have occurred. no accuracy, no democracy!" to which the president added "are you listening, republicans?"

fauci, randy quaid. [ laughter ] for those who remember randy quaid as cousin eddie from the "vacation" movies, he has a long list of accomplishments outside acting. he's been arrested a few times. he tried to get asylum in canada. he believes there's a group called the hollywood star whackers that is plotting to kill him. and our president retweeted that person five times today. [ laughter ] this is interesting. 54% of republicans say they'd vote for trump if he ran again in 2024. which sounds like a lot until you consider the fact that three weeks ago, 94% of republicans voted for him. in three weeks he lost 40%. they know he's not the only choice, right? there are other reality show stars. what's wrong with president dog the bounty hunter for a while? [ laughter ] voting for trump in 2024 would require him to leave, and he still hasn't conceded. you know, talking to some of my theater friends today. we were talking about how much this reminds us of the act i finale of "dreamgirls." >> guillermo: yeah. >> jimmy: remember? >> guillermo: roe oh, yes. >> jimmy: what happens? >> guillerm

>> unless you're randy quaid, i guess. randy quaid now has an insight into doing this.ou have to wait what donald trump says about his future ambitions. everyone that we've talked about in trump's orbit have basically said they expect him to keep in 2024 or just say he'll do it. keep in mind in 2016 he announced his re-election campaign. there's just precedent for him saying, yeah, i'll do it. if he does, what do you do if you're tom cotton, nikki haley? do you risk all that comes with it? it is a very tenuous situation for anyone else who has white house am bigs. one thing about trump, he's vindictive and he will go after you if you challenge him. >> that's a good word for it. for a lot of these folks who have spent the last four years being incredibly differential to president trump it's hard to see how they make a change at this point successfully. sam stein, thank you very much. wish you a happy thanksgiving to you and your family. >>> earlier in the show we asked why are you awake? paul tweeted this photo. i'm up way too early because thanksgiving pies don't bake t

>> electoral expert randy quaid being retweeted. thank you for that, peter. i want to go to phil rucker, "washington post" bureau chief. you have a great article about what went on behind the scenes at the white house leading up to this decision to approve the transition. and you quote a senior campaign adviser who said the president basically just conceded. that's as close to a concession as you will probably get. talk to us about how the president got to where we are right now. >> well, chris, the president was very reluctant to agree to this formal beginning of the transition process with the government services administration. he wanted to keep fighting. he is refusing, obviously, to concede in any formal way, but he was convinced by his advisers, by some of his attorneys, including his private lawyer jay sekulow. excuse me for my dog barking in the background. he said you're not going to -- you're not going to win here. and there's this growing chorus from republican senators from business leaders, including steve schwartzman, the president's closest all

he still has abon't conceded an he's tweeting things about persisting among things about randy quaid. but there is a lot of reporting about the recognition that where he was heading was truly to an island where he and rudy and whoever the other lawyer is that they haven't fired yet by tweet, would be on an island alone, without any backup from fox news in terms of the success of the legal effort, because there isn't any, and with fewer and fewer republican allies. so, they went into the oval office, we understand from "the washington post" that mark meadows was there, jay secokulo was there, people forcing him to accept reality has grown. i think ivanka and jared have been reported to have been in there. talk about where we are. so, while we have ascertained the win and transition funds have been released and joe biden can start to begin to do that p transfer, we still don't have a concession and you still have millions of trump voters who leave the lies he's been telling them for three weeks. >> that's right. what we saw yesterday was a culmination of pressure being applied to presid

he gets all his intelligence from randy quaid's tweets. [ light laughter ] thanks to trump's daily briefwill now be well-versed in foreign and domestic threats and who got eliminated on "the bachelorette." [ light laughter ] actually, it does turn out that the brief they give biden is a a little different than the one they give trump. i'll show you what i mean. for instance, biden's brief says, "iran building nuclear arsenal. while trump's brief says, "iran makes big fireworks that go boom-boom. [ laughter and applause next up, biden's brief says, "norway experiencing harsh climate change." while trump's says, "soon olaf will be a puddle." [ laughter ] and finally, biden's brief says, "canada extends border restrictions with u.s. while trump's says, "americans betrayed by beliebers. [ laughter and applause just a little bit. even though the transition has already begun, rudy giuliani is still trying to overturn the election today he talked about voter fraud at an event in gettysburg, pennsylvania people were pumped about the event. not to hear rudy's speech, just to see what's gonna leak

there were sort of bizarre appearances given that he began retweeting randy quaid. kunz eddie from the vacation moving. what are we going to see from the president over the next 57 day? what will he do or say or will he take questions? >> reporter: to quote cousin eddie, he once said, you don't really need the hamburger, hamburger helper does just fine. that is what you see. we are getting the hamburger helper. we are not getting the hamburger. he's not taking questions about whether he's going to concede to joe biden or whether he's going to cooperate with a peaceful transfer of power. will he go to the biden's inauguration. i talked to a white house's official, at some point the president will take questions. he's keeping it suspense. fsh the reality tv executive producer at heart. make no mistake. this is a train left the station without the president on board but it is a transition that's happening whether the president likes it or not. >> thank you very much, kristine todd wittman. former epa administrator. and also former new jersey governor, david gergen, cnn

well, guys, today, president trump took a break from his busy schedule of retweeting randy quaid and out the presidential tradition of pardoning a turkey here's the big moment between trump and a turkey named corn. >> corn, i hereby grant you a full pardon. thank you, corn. >> jimmy: yeah that's right the bird needed to be pardoned after it was let down by its bumbling lawyer, rooster giuliani [ laughter ] [ applause ] yeah, the good news is, the turkey was pardoned. the bad news is, trump didn't wear a mask, so he's a goner anyway [ laughter ] but i hope everyone else wore a mask 'cause it's gotta be embarrassing if your contact tracing leads back to a turkey pardon [ laughter ] i saw that people could go online and vote for the turkey they wanted pardoned, corn or cob. meanwhile, it turns out corn might've won 'cause the vote was rigged by hugo chavez. [ laughter ] but this is nice i heard that before the ceremony, corn and cob stayed at the willard hotel take a look at this. yeah as if the hotel industry wasn't going through enough during covid, now they got to deal with this. two