i like rick santorum, but he's never been with us, i can tell you that.you can argue about how loyal they've been in the past. chris christie, another loyal trump backer for a long time, a guy who calls donald trump his friend. he now saying to the president, "mr president, you can't carry on like this." yes, but on the other hand, we heard from mitt romney, who did not vote for trump, who said over the weekend, he said yesterday on a talk show, he said, "watch your rhetoric, be careful what you say, "but go through the due process." and i think that mitt romney would be one of the first to criticise donald trump and say, "give it up," but he did not. ted cruz, who, of course, has been a trump supporter, he was very guarded, too, though. he did not say, "you're going to win," but he said, "you do have the right for the process." when you heard the authoritative media report, citing at least two sources, saying that jared kushner had begun the process of trying to indicate to the president that he should now concede that it is over. he cannot, given the nu

and i think as rick santorum just said. and i think that's been helpful to him. i think people who are -- who voted for biden but weren't quite sure how he would be in a presidential role are much reassured simply by what he is doing in the last few days. if he has another two weeks like this, he's going to be in great shape. what we don't know, there are so many surprises that could come from donald trump on the pardoning front. is he going to pardon his kids? is he going to pardon himself? there are a lot of different ways he could be distracting again. but in the meantime, i think joe biden has made very wise use of the time he's had. >> david gergen, kirsten powers, rick santorum. rick, i've seen you so much this week, i feel like we're having thanksgiving together. >> we had breakfast together. great. >> i really hope the three of you all have a wonderful holiday. >> take care. >> ahead. the latest from the white house on the flynn pardon. is this just the start of many pardons we could see between now and when president trump leaves office in january? and c

we are back with rick santorum. how do you see the south carolina senate race shaping up? >> the fact that we are talking about south carolina 48 hours before the election is a win. someone who has run statewide in south carolina, i race e raised $750,000. which was a lot of money. got 42% of the vote. jamie harrison is just running -- he is eclipsing that. it's not just the money he is raising or the messaging he has had but the fact that he is running one of the best campaigns we have seen in south carolina. the problem that the republican party has is trumpism. it's allowing us to expand our base. it's not just south carolina. it's in mississippi. it's in georgia. it's people in states who you would not think we have anticipate opportunity to win. >> what states are you watching closely? >> i mean, i think there are seats that republicans are -- incumbents are struggling to hold onto. colorado looks tough. what i have seen in the last few weeks is that republican senate candidates have come on a little bit, just

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also with us a former republican senator rick santorum. senator, first to you, if asked, are you prepared to serve in the biden administration? >> no, i'm not, but thank you for suggesting me. no, i wasn't prepared to serve in the last administration and i'm not prepared to serve on this one. you know, i just enjoy being on cnn too much. >> wow. a definitive no making news here this morning. bakari, there is a transition that skipped a generation with the trump presidency, a democratic congressman who served under george w. bush, republican congressman ray lahood and chuck hagel serving in the obama administration. is this something that democrats want to see? do they want to see a republican inside the biden white house, or the cabinet? >> well, first, thank you for asking me if i was going to join the biden administration cabinet. i've given it a lot of consideration but first i'm trying to at least get senior before political commentator on cnn before i make it up to the cabinet level position, but thanks for asking. no, i firmly believ

rick santorum, trumpy, right wing dude on cnn, blasted it. did they think it was good? >> this was the president's idea, of course, the usual team of writers, including stephen miller and jared kushner had a hand in it as well. he had been telegraphing this for a while, nicolle, he was going to get out there and declare victory. their hope, the trump team was make things close enough to throw it to the courts. let's remember, of course, the president appointed three supreme court justices, including one which took her seat in the last couple of weeks. but, of course, the key was to keep it close enough for that to happen. what we are seeing now are potentially these margins joe biden is putting up may be too significant to overcome. but that's where the trump white house and their campaign is focused right now. they want to stop the courts and feel like they can win these two states in the southeast, maybe pennsylvania, although that looks like an uphill climb, and hope for the best in the courts. but joe biden right now clearly in that speech we just heard, he's projec

sean spicer's saying he hasn't seen it, chris christie, rick santorum. what do you say?t some of those people, but none of them are here in philadelphia, one of them, to the best of my knowledge, are even in the state of pennsylvania right now. i've been on the ground here since wednesday morning first thing. we have unequivocal proof of individuals who have died and have voted, who, as a matter of fact, we have uni give call proof of an individual who died on one date, his ballot was requested seven days later and recorded for this election. that's one very specific example in one specific county, but i can also tell you that here in the city of philadelphia there have been a number of individuals whose ballots have been rejected because they lacked the, it lacked the inner secrecy envelope. so away looked at was how many of those renexts took place. and -- rejections took place. of the partisan breakout in philadelphia, all of the democratic ballots that were rejected, those voters were notified that their ballots were rejected and had the opportunity to vote. however,

rick santorum. and conservative columnist and host cup unfiltered, i want to start with you. like hour, since the gsa did what it did, you have seen republicans, who have been sitting on their hands. they are hiding their heads in the sand. coming out with these statements congratulating president-elect joe biden. they've, somehow, found the courage to speak up and discuss the results of the election. your thoughts on this? >> yeah. i mean, for the past four years, we, especially in the media, have heard republicans, in private, are xyz, disgusted, disturbed, troubled. but publicly, very silent, except in these moments where it really doesn't count. you know? where -- where sort of everyone's doing it. i think, in fact, if i -- if i write another book, i'll call it "in private." the -- the great, you know, the great cowardice of trump's gop. but, i think, the calculus, thus far, has been -- has been twofold. one, i think republicans have been scared that trump is going to run a bunch of, you know, scam pacs to try and primary republicans who weren't sufficiently trumpy to lin

to be going along with it but i think republicans are not quite on board with this people like rick santorum who was a former nominee former candidate for president people like mitch mcconnell who's the 2nd most powerful republican the country saying let's be patient here let's go follow the normal process let's stick by the law and have a normal recount here. we're going to leave it there i mean as if in washington thanks very much. and with donald trump seeking to launch those legal challenges to the results the issue of alleged vote rigging again no evidence for that may play a role in deciding who will become president our reporter michelle spoke with the head of the o. s. c. e. election observer mission to the united states or so they got checked who said trump's allegations have undermined public trust and democratic institutions ambassador gas think the president is alleging that ballots are being found all over the place to help joe biden win these elections when you look at states like pennsylvania where it's coming down to the wire any of these allegations founders in what you foun

they want to hear the well-told story rolled out and explained versus this guy, rick santorum who's going an expert in a lot except being a failed congressman, versus pick your other congressman on the other side, and i think this depth of expertise is really problematic. when we started doing -- we do a show about policy called matter of fact, we're not live. the president is tweeting every morning and we pre-tape on thursday for sunday. so we decided to lean in hard to context. what is the first amendment? what does gerrymandering mean and where did it come from? how is it possible that you can live on a minimum wage income and not be able to afford a two-bedroom apartment? because of that we actually very rarely talk politics. we talk about policy. we talk about people. i have no idea if they're republicans, if they're democrats, if they're independents, if they vote, they tell us what's happening in their lives and we talk about the policy and because it's not framed as this versus this, i think it's a much more interesting conversation, and it does really well, we do better than most

of the republican party that are distancing themselves from them we've seen that with you know rick santorum for example republican lawyer ben ben ginsburg even chris christie who who are suggesting in some of the remarks that this is going too far that this is just not acceptable for rick's up the kind of rhetoric from a president on the eve of an election and in terms of the blue wall you know i mean this is as richard pointed out incredibly important for the biden campaign for both campaigns but this is the blue wall is where the clinton campaign you know made a misstep by taking those states for granted which hillary clinton then narrowly lost in 2016 in the biden campaign has known going into this that these are really important states they have been there you know the vice president with former president obama in michigan. in. in all of in wisconsin and and pennsylvania really symbolize how important this is for the biden campaign they have. arizona male which is that is a big win for the biden campaign that provides them it looks like they are yeah yeah a little bit of a buffer room b

rick santorum and dana bash. dana, the new polls joe biden leading in michigan and wisconsin.n arizona and north carolina. what do they tell you? >> reporter: that the path and the rhythm of this race is still where it was, that the upper midwest is and always has been the biden campaign's belief that it is their best shot at kind of turning the trump states back to blue, rebuilding that blue wall, so to speak, and it is the states that historically have been more red but have demographic shifts, arizona and north carolina, that are -- in one case in the margin of error, in one case just outside the margin of error. biden's benefit. the open question is whether the shifts are happening fast enough to benefit biden. and i'm talking about expansion of the suburbs in both arizona and north carolina. the younger voters in both states. and that is one of the story lines, the major story lines of the 2020 election is the kind of shift of some of these states and whether or not we're in a transition period and whether the next election will kind of bring it totally along or whether t

one you have reasonable people like rick santorum and others pointing out reasonable claims and calling for a reasonable process. that i think everybody has to respect. there's something else happening. which is that the president is throwing raw meat to his base and his base is starting to react and the other republicans seem to be going in that direction. the concern i have, no matter what the numbers look like, if you get enough people whipped up, they're going to say it's all fact. then you have a legitimacy crisis. what you don't want is a legitimacy crisis. thousands of people saying they're not being governed legitimacy. >> and they're coming out saying it's harder to make the case when republicans did so well in these states and the president did not do well, it gets harder and harder. i think what's going on in the white house you have a president, remember, who said that joe biden was the worst candidate in history. and he probably feels humiliation to a degree. and he cannot -- >> yeah. >> -- he cannot get around the notion that he could lose to that guy. losing is hard enoug

for those of hue missed our earlier undercard debate featuring mike huckabee and rick santorum, the resultslost. >> let's take a break. when we return, much, much more on joe kelly seen here from outer space. you're watching "the situation room." >> that's very cute. that's it for me tonight. i must say, i'm the real wolf blitzer here in "the situation room." thanks very much for watching after a truly, truly historic week for our country. i'll be back in "the situation room" tomorrow. 5:00 p.m. eastern. cnn newsroom wistarts right now. >>> i'm pamela brown. we start with breaking news. nearly 36 hours after the presidential race was called for president-elect joe biden, the current occupant of the white house is railing against the results. sources close to the president tell me the key advisers are considering campaign style rallies amplifying baseless claims that the election was stolen from president trump. i want to go straight to kaitlyn collins at the white house. what more are you learning? >> no surprise that the president wants to take this show on the road. what he's been

for example, working at cnn she got to be friendly with rick santorum.ing to come out and constantly attack the press. i think that's the tone that joe biden is looking for. >> dana: what about also though that these other picks. have a tweet here from tom cotton. this is not about the communications team. is he talking about unifying the country and national security saying that biden says he wants to unify but he has picked a national security team that is weak on china. dhs nominee who sold visas for powerful political friends and a partisan hack who called soviet union collins the worst for omb. so much for unity in that last reference is to neera tanden who has a prolific tweeting history to say the least. howie. >> yeah. well, it's hardly surprising that some republicans will stake shots the ideology and records of democratic president would appoint. at the same time neera tanden feat alienating the bernie people don't like her obviously some of the g.o.p. don't like her. she could be the sacrificial lamb usually at the outset. tries to pick off on

rick santorum has made his choice. everybody in this country is making their choice.nk the difficulty is if trump wins, he's going to have to figure out how to bring people in this country, at least half of it, that is repulsed by who he is. >> how to govern a divided nation, even more divided. >> he it's divided along the lines to him, to tax or not to tax. it's not war or go to war. it is him and not him. he is going to have to see or biden is going to have to see that the answer to this country is not in them, it's in us. they're going to have to tap into what this country shares and it's going to have to happen fast because we're in the middle of the pandemic. let's take that question to mind as we go to break. one of the mysteries of the night to unravel. so in arizona we're talking about demographic shift where you have an influx of latino people in key counties like maricopa county that is changing red to blue. but in florida we see the latino or the latin ex vote undoing joe biden. how do both those things happen? >> they're different latinos. in florida you h

trump was condemned by folks like chris wallace, rick santorum, and chris christie.se people are hardly liberals. for pete's sake, chris christie has stood by you through thick and thin. in fact, he stood so close by you that you nearly killed him with covid! then, ol' tater dick put the "dick" in "tator," when he threatened to end the vote count. >> so we will be going to the u.s. supreme court. we want all voting to stop. we don't want them to find any ballots at 4:00 in the morning and add them to the list, okay? ( applause ) >> stephen: first of all, i don't know why i need to say this to the president of the united states, but they're not finding them. they're counting them. if you recite the numbers one through ten, you don't find the number seven! you count to it, pass it, then keep counting, and realize that oh, yeah, biden clearly won wisconsin. plus, the president of the united states can't ask for voting to stop. he's only the president because of voting. voting is america's whole thing. that's like arby's changing their slogan to "we must stop the meats!"

up with the idea in a barbershop with rick santorum.ow serious are you in terms of a health care bill? the aarp has condemned his bill because of the age tax. it does not cover people with pre-existing conditions. he supports ripping health care away from millions of americans with this case in front of the supreme court's. we will do better once we have better leadership. >> your response? sen. graham: if you don't like the way obamacare is set up, we are not getting our fair share, who wrote it? nancy pelosi about it. the three states that get the most money happened to be california, new york, massachusetts. i'm trying to get a better deal for us. obamacare is appetizer, bernie sanders is in charge, his champion. socialized medicine is one vote away. control of the senate is on the ballots. if they get control of the house, synods, and white house, your health care will go away. we will be under the government banner of socialized medicine. you will have less toys and the quality will go down. my goal is to help people who are strugg

i was thinking today about what rick santorum said earlier on cnn, that he was willing to concede, butn, there are no conditions. the conditions are if you don't get enough votes, you lose, and you don't the leave the office, the office goes away from you. we talk a lot about the term "pleasure of the president" when we're discussing presidents. presidents are at the pleasure of the people as manifested through the constitution and our laws. my hope, my fervent hope is he concedes graciously. we have a peaceful transition. look, if he wans to remain a force in the republican party, he can do that. by the way, if i were him, i would go to georgia to fight like hell to stick one to chuck schumer on the way out the door, and that's fine. he can continue to participate in our politics. but his duty and his responsibility is to honor the tradition of this office. and i don't know what he is going to do, chris, but my sincerest hope for him, for his family and for the country is that he doesn't. >> ana, senora, i've seen you all over the internet moving around to the music and the moment. >>

and rick santorum, to your point earlier, you heard vice president biden not saying, blaming republicanss and saying it's a choice we both make. >> right. and that's why when he said that, okay, he is talking about both sides, not just talking about trump. he is playing fair. and that's really important. if you're going to go out there and you're going to reach out, you can't slap people at the same time you're reaching out to them. and so that was the choice. i was listening for dog whistles, and nothing -- that was one that sort of and no, that's not it. number two, he's got to start thinking about -- obviously he is going to do his covid thing, and that's great. but as far as what he's going to do to reach out, obviously he could have some impact on these negotiations that are going to be occurring on the next covid package, the next cares act package, and whether there is -- nancy pelosi basically said i need all these things or i'm not going to do this. and her membership i think paid a little price for that. i don't think that ended up being a good strategy for her because it sound

i understand by watching rick santorum the other day that actually the president did better in philadelphia this cycle than he did four years ago in terms of the percentage of the vote he received. so there are some arguments which auger against suggesting that the election is going to get reversed. at the same time, i think you make an important point which is a lot of republicans, a lot of voters voted for republicans but did not vote for the president. and that suggests to me that conservative principles are still in the majority in our country. >> it's interesting you say that. i want to tell you about cobb county, georgia, senator romney. when you were on the ballot in georgia in cobb county, you won that county by 12 points, suburban county of atlanta. joe biden won it by 12 points eight years later. so you're talking about you feel good about the fact that you say there's a majority in this country that wants conservative principles, but your party took a beating in the suburbs. and that, you know, that's why it looks like he may not win georgia. if that is a pattern, you might not c

rick santorum, former member of the senate said what the president said was wrong.istie said as a former u.s. attorney, i don't agree with the president. he shouldn't say what he said. those things are not consistent with counting votes and letting the process play out. >> let's see how many current republican office holders say something like that as the day progresses. >> given the returns we've seen so far in the senate we just heard from nancy cordes, i cannot imagine many republican members of congress or senate coming out and chastising the president. the question also is, what cost will he pay for the statements he has made? you've got some former officials making comments but the votes are in. they're just being tabulated now. it's not like voters can penalize him. >> voters can't penalize him but this is a country in which what the president says and what a rival campaign where the votes haven't all been counted can do in the court of public opinion or in any court where some litigation may arise. that has to play out. >> publicly they believe they'll win.

. >>> we have rick santorum and go gloria borger.blican group is now asking a federal appeals court to block drive-thru voting tomorrow. they already lost the bid to get 127,000 ballots that already voted to get them ruled ineligible. they're not, but now they're trying to get it blocked. basically it seems like taking the lead from the judge himself who sort of intimated that he didn't like the idea of drive-thru voting. >> these are not the actions of a party that feels terribly comfortable about where they are. you speak to republicans and democrats in texas, and think this race is going to be a few points either way. no one is expressing tremendous confidence, certainly not about any margin. and, look, that's mostly true around the country. one of the things i'd be concerned about if i were on the trump -- at the trump headquarters is that all these polling margins in many, many states, even states he's going to carry, are much smaller than they were four years ago, and that's been pretty uniform. so if you do the math in the sta

some republicans are spoken out chris christie, rick santorum being two of them.s a huge following on youtube saying... some states have gone out of their way to reassure voters that this count will be legitimate. he is a statement from election official from wisconsin which have been talking about... in pennsylvania, where ballots are still being counted, here's what the governor has said. i will do everything within my power to ensure that the results are fair, and that every vote is counted. pennsylvania will have a fair election and that election will be free of outside influences. i will vigorously, and we all will vigorously, and we all will vigorously defend against any attempt to attack that vote in pennsylvania. tammy patrick is a senior advisor for the elections programme at the democracy fund, she joins me now. name: thank you very much, following the story and taking about ronald reagan's words of america being a shining city on the hill, a beacon of light around the world. would you really categorise american democracy in those terms at the moment?” t

seems to me, brian, is the problem, we have rick sa ntorum me, brian, is the problem, we have rick santorumal, and at times it is incendiary. yes, he is going to have to produce evidence. he claims he is going to fail legal challenges and, of course, in court he has to bring the evidence. but, you know, let's not get it twisted here, legal challenges in contested elections are not new to america. i mean, you go back to america. i mean, you go back to bush versus gore, the democrats did the same thing when bush won, oh, gore really one, its bad, it's fraud, now theissueis one, its bad, it's fraud, now the issue is on the other foot and they don't want to wear it. i think that is an interesting point you make, there are so often legal challenges to the elections. and it is a real hodgepodge across the united states in terms of the ways in which votes are collected and counted. i think that is recognisable stop there is a verification system, isn't there, brain, let's be honest, and if there are question marks ofa and if there are question marks of a particular ballot papers they are taken asi

. >> in pennsylvania -- it makes it -- rick santorum, it makes a difference how many votes are left tod, but it seems when you look at the votes left to be couped, where they are from biden needs somewhere between 58 and 61% of those votes to win, but the votes outstanding are in areas where biden has been winning by more than 7 on%. >> the one thing we have to keep in mind is they're counting mail-in votes now. in pennsylvania, three quarters of the people who voted by mail were democrats. so even in counties where you have strong republican vote, the people who voted mail-in would lean more toward democrat. >> i went through -- what i do in my free time, i went and looked at every single county in pennsylvania. there's only one county in the state where trump won the mail-in. >> good i have been what you know about pennsylvania, and you know better than everything, there's 37 on,000 outstanding voetsds, may-in, what does that tell you? >> how many are from philadelphia. if it's philadelphia, the initial tranches i have seen, he's -- biden is getting about 95% of the vote. so if most

we're hearing from rick santorum, somebody who has been deployed as a kind of surrogate for presidentut on cable news saying he was distressed to hear the president talk the way that he did. santorum, of course, a pennsylvania guy. we are also hearing from the governor of pennsylvania, the democratic governor of pennsylvania, who is also extremely concerned unsurprisingly about what the president is saying, saying essentially that there are some million votes yet to be counted, ballots yet to be counted in pennsylvania and that the state will count all of those votes despite the president's threats to have that end. so one of the angles that we're continuing to report out, lester, is sort of the public and private dichotomy here and what we are hearing from people around the president. oftentimes we know the president says things that his advisers or aides maybe don't want him to say. they go a little too far. they get a little off message. and we're looking to see if that is, in fact, the case as to what happened tonight. i will tell you it is pretty quiet here at the white house, le

evidence has to be produced as rick santorum said. if there is evidence, judges will decide on that. much of what the president said tonight is without -- is not real evidence and if he has real evidence for it, that will be presented in court. the american people can see that. kaitlan collins standing by as well. kaitlan? >> anderson, not only were the president's comments undermining democracy, he also just seemed to express a complete misunderstanding of how elections work and particularly this election and how people have been saying for the last six months they expected tuesday to go and the days that followed and we've seen it play out exactly as people predicted, but the president seemed genuinely surprised that he was leading in some states on tuesday and he is now trailing in those states as millions more votes have been counted particularly from democrats given that the president encouraged his own supporters not to vote by mail for six months. when you wage a campaign against mail-in voting for the better power of the year

up with the idea in a barbershop with rick santorum.us are you in terms of a health care bill? the aarp has condemned his bill because of the age tax. it does not cover people with pre-existing conditions. he supports ripping health care away from millions of americans with this case in front of the supreme court's. we will do better once we have better leadership. >> your response? sen. graham: if you don't like the way obamacare is set up, we are not getting our fair share, who wrote it? nancy pelosi about it. the three states that get the most money happened to be california, new york, massachusetts. i'm trying to get a better deal for us. obamacare is appetizer, bernie sanders is in charge, his champion. socialized medicine is one vote away. control of the senate is on the ballots. if they get control of the house, synods, and white house, your health care will go away. we will be under the government banner of socialized medicine. you will have less toys and the quality will go down. my goal is to help people who are struggling, i

. >> rick santorum said the same thing, alice stewart saying the same thing.hink many republicans, most republicans, sensible republicans are saying -- >> not elected officials. no elected official who's a republican has said anything, and i think that's where it's going to matter. >> that's really, really telling. it's interesting, because as i'm looking over my notice for the president's speech earlier, he said, you know, i told you that we were going to do this. there's a group of people who are trying to disenfranchise another group of people, talking about going to court. and in the next breath he said, we are going to court. we are ready to go to the supreme court. isn't that contradictory? he has criticizing supposedly democrats or people who -- you know, the votes are doing what they're supposed to be doing, counting every single vote, by saying they're going to go to court, and then he said, he's going to go to court. >> they have been saying for several days. they've been telegraphing that they were planning on legal challenges, that they were lawyer

then you have others rick santorum, now works with cnn calling the president's claims dangerous.t is irresponsible for trump to claim a victory in the election and conservative editorial page of the "new york post" the president could preserve his legacy stopping the claims of the election. the president not taking that advice so far. not people on one side or the other side. it is more nuanced than that. >> trace: coverage over the past four years and you quote after six years of overwhelmingly negative coverage of trump the media can hardly be shocked if they're no longer seen as an honest broker. are you saying the president has branded the news as fake news and been successful? >> fake news is a phrase he popularized. given the battles over the years and sometimes i said he goes too far in his rhetoric and i think sometimes the mistakes and blunders against the president, social media, twitter has given a major part of the country the impression he can't get a fair shake. along comes the election. much closer than the media predicted. then the decision comes out and say it's

i think it was rick santorum talking last night saying in places like reno, tourism is important, theyhurting with coronavirus, and the question is how does that play among voters who want to see businesses come back, who want to see tourism come back. does that mean they don't favor joe biden's more conservative approach to dealing with the pandemic or more aggressive approach or do they favor president trump's approach? >> i think you're making a critical point. we talk about the national campaign we have all time, the coronavirus is the biggest issue in the country, the president was having rallies, joe biden saying that was irresponsible. but you're so smart to say let's look locally state by state. in south florida, for example, the attacks on socialism motivated a lot of latino voters in south florida. some of the targeted accounts that might not work nationally work in certain places. the trump campaign's advertis g advertising, messaging was joe biden wants to lockdown the country, keep it locked down. that's a distortion of biden's views but it'll be interesting to watch. you

rick santorum brought up a interesting point if you want to bring up people together why would you start with a series of executive orders which are just basically you acting alone unilaterally. we will have to see. i think the only way to joe biden will necessarily have to work with democrats, with republicans is if they are able to win those two senate cease o. one of the two senate seats up for re-election on january 5th because they both have to do a runoff because right now it looks like it's going to be 50-48 if alaska comes in and north carolina holds out with thom till liz 50-48 and two more up for grabs. that is really what's going on in georgia right now there couldn't be any more action in georgia, steve. especially because the attorney general, republican, is being asked to resign by two republican senate candidates. steve: the secretary of state is in that particular state because they are in charge of the election. kelly loeffler senator and david perdue is saying hey that person has got to go. brad roethlisberger is his name. he is accused of being an embarrassment by the

larry hogan in maryland have stepped guard, and you had rick santorum on cnn, chris christie when hehe president's steadfast reporters. >> resoundingly pushing back. >> resoundingly pushing back for good reason because they understand the consequences of undermining the rule of law. the president -- the president does not understand the consequences of undermining the rule of law, and he's made that perfectly clear over the past four, five years or some would say over the course of his entire adult life. but in this case the fact that he's having such a scatter shot approach where he's demanding the stopping of counting in states where he's ahead or the case of michigan falling behind further by the hour, and then demanding the counting of votes of states where he's behind, that has legal consequences. when federal judges see that sort of scatter shot approach, that sort of intellectually incoherent legal argument, then that does have legal consequences for those challenges. that's why i don't think anybody that i've spoken with in the legal community sees any merit to any of these c

and a change particularly for young people who, you know, it's not as rick santorum would say, just aboutthey do care about policy. they do believe in science. and they do believe that climate change is an important thing. they do believe that systemic racism exists. that's why you're seeing them on the streets. >> it's like a pressure valve is being released slowly across these cities. and i say cities on miles per hour because this is where this is happening in the largely democratic places. but i think senator santorum has done us a tremendous service in walking us through what's going on particularly among republicans in pennsylvania where he -- a place he knows so well. but these are not elites. it's not about being elite or not elite. this is about -- this is about a particular feeling of yearning for normalcy and for a lot of people about their children and wanting their children to feel good with the president as a role model. >> as we watch these scenes of celebration, the -- we're also seeing people wearing masks. and mostly wearing masks. they are not socially distancing. i hat

it's not just rick santorum in the other room or john bolton giving an interview. it needs to be the current republican office holders. again, we don't know what is in those votes and president trump could theoretically win every outstanding state, nevada, arizona, north carolina, georgia, pennsylvania. >> he could. >> it doesn't look like he will but he could. the question is are republicans going to stand up for the principle count every vote and let the chips fall where they may? >> they are starting to. one said that let's take a deep breath and count votes. we will see if other people are that explicit. one thing you talked about with modeling. i don't want to get too far into the weeds here but i guess where we are, as we are waiting for them to count votes. one of the reasons republicans feel so confident about where their votes are they know are republicans with. i have a question in arizona because they are registered as a republican or the trump campaign and rnc thinks they are -- a certain voter is voting republican doesn't mean that they did. this is a

. >> rick santorum, and then david, and we'll go back. >> i think republicans will look at the speech as a perfectly fine speech, sort of a normal speech. i don't know of any president who gets elected who doesn't say they have a mandate. but i think republicans don't see it that way. that will be the real question here. >> i think one of the most important things he said, we may be opponents but we're not enemies. we're americans. we need to get past the anger, we need to put that behind us. and he promised to be a president for everyone. we don't have a minute to waste on partisan warfare. these are important messages after a very, very rough campaign. and given the presidency that we just saw. my only question is, what is he going to say tomorrow if he gets elected? because you expect he's going to hit the same themes all over again. >> i don't mind. say it again. >> but if van is happy, i'm happy. >> let's go back to jake. >> thanks, anderson. we have some breaking news, let's go to caitlkaitlan collin with some bad news on the coronavirus front. >> we're now confirming from a whi

you have people like chris christie and rick santorum saying it on television but you don't have leaders an ambulance-chasing routine. how do you see this? >> look. i think when we have, for the last several weeks, the president questioning the integrity of the elections and the potential outcomes. and then, right out of the gate, he says, last night, that he potentially will get the supreme court involved with regard to these election results. that did cause concern for some republicans, speaking with many of them. and also, declaring, without having gotten to 270 electoral-college votes, that he is the winner. and that caused some consternation among republicans. >> but they won't say publicly, will they? >> some have but some, certainly, have not. obviously, we're still in the thick of things and we need to let every vote count. and this is one of my issues. i said it last night. he was rather premature in a lot of what he said last night. talking about the supreme court involvement. it was almost as though it was a solution, in search of a problem, because we had not seen any evidenc