so now there are reports that he's souring on rudy guiliani.uld get to the point where the president is blaming his legal team for the losses that he suffered, even though we've heard from election experts and attorneys saying that it didn't matter which legal team was representing the president, he still did not have a case here. it wouldn't have changed anything of the outcome. that could be where we end up but it ultimately rests with the president. >> didn't help that he picked the ones in the clown carr to represent himself, though. insult to injury. thank you very much. i'll see you soon. bringing in roth. i am so happy to have you on thank you so much for joining us, ma'am. really preach it. appreciate it. >> good to be with you. >> cnn breaking the news that the transition can begin. you signed off on the trump transition. should the signoff for president-elect biden taken so long? it's been more than two weeks since the election was called. >> it has been. unfortunately, each dha that goes by is a dha the presidential transition team i

they don't know what happened to rudy guiliani.ling me that because the president doesn't even pay his attorney, rudy guiliani seems to be destroying his reputation free of charge. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. >> drew, thank you so much. a final note from president barack obama. we'll be right back. sarah: for a while i've had like a, kind of negative self image. there was like this contrast between like the way that i was thinking about my personality and the way that i was thinking about my body. with noom, i was able to learn how to interrupt those habits and create new ones. so my goal was 35 pounds and i've lost about 30 pounds now. so.. i've never been this confident in my body. my name is sara and i changed my life with noom. visit noom.com and lose the weight for good. americans from both parties. turned out to vote in numbers like we haven't seen in a hundred years. and election officials counted those votes carefully, transparently and in accordance with the law. so, no matter who you voted for, if you cast a ballot, or co

rudy guiliani was on speaker phone, and basically rudy told by sources accused the trump campaign lawyers of lying to the president because they had been telling the president that it was a steep uphill climb, that the odds were against him to win this lawsuit to do anything to change the outcome of the election. rudy said they were liars for telling the president that in that he thought the president could win through some of these conspiracy theories that have been thrown out there, and one of the aides, you pointed out, justin clark, deputy campaign manager fired back dropping the f bomb essentially. it was the next day, brianna, we're told the president took rudy's side essentially and put rudy in charge of his legal strategy, if you call it that. right now as we speak, in fact,

man, you've got to be pretty crazy if rudy guiliani thinks you're a liability "sorry, ms. you're a loose cannon now if you'll excuse me, i'm late for a press conference where i say joe biden is the hamburglar." the pharmaceutical company astrazeneca announced that one of its coronavirus regimens is up to 90% effective. and it says something about how upside-down 2020 is that we're now all rooting for pharmaceutical companies "come on, astrazeneca! you can do this. pfizer ain't got nothing on you. but don't you give up, pfizer. we're counting on you, too." today was senate minority leader chuck schumer's 70th birthday. or as they call it in the senate, "barely legal. [ light laughter ] infectious disease expert doctor recent interview that santa claus is immune to the coronavirus. "oh, good for him," said an elf being forced to come into the workshop during an outbreak. the music store guitar center has announced that it's filed for bankruptcy turns out a lot of men don't buy guitars when they can't hit on women anymore. and finally, adult video website pornhub has released

rudy guiliani today actually talking about mass voter fraud in the election and saying it's part of a communist plot associated with venezuela, hugo chavez, george soros, and the clinton foundation so if you are a conspiracy theorist pick whichever one is your buzz word. the thing is conspiracy theories like these are actually not funny because plenty of people right now believe them. in the whole 90 minutes of one thing after another, right, this diatribe of anger guiliani only holding up one single affidavit. one. the facts are that multiple judges have rejected trump's allegations of election fraud. voters have dropped nearly every case claiming suspicion of fraud. just today a state judge in pennsylvania rejecting the campaign efforts to throw out 2,000 absentee ballots. in that all important state of michigan now the trump campaign itself dropped another lawsuit trying to block the certification of the state's election results. trump tweeting in response, we withdrew because we won. to state the obvious if withdrawing a lawsuit and giving up happens because you are winning the wo

rudy guiliani may be somebody as well. areas of preemptive pardons.reemptive pardons or those after convictions or guilty pleas. a combination he could actually use, because, of course, you can pardon anyone for contact that occurred, whether pardon himself for some reason, that's kind of uncharted territory. could be explored at the supreme court. most certainly could try to pardon people at the trump organization, his own family members and like jim acosta referenced, no one could have a single question about it. >> yeah. elie, our reporting shows he's expressed fascination about pardoning himself. about pardoning those around him who may potentially face scrutiny or have faced scrutiny but the conclusion of which is unclear. what about that? >> reporter: yeah, rebthe quest whether the president can pardon himself, file that under things we don't know for sure because nobody ever tried it in our history. the president said he tweeted before he believes he has an absolute right to pardon himself. people who support that, look at the constitution. no

what are the motives of people like rudy guiliani right now?eople are motivated by financial gain. unfortunately, donald trump still has a fair amount of influence as far as who is going to provide funds to various re-election campaigns as well as to individuals like rudy guiliani and others who continue to market themselves outside. these are people who quite frankly have sold their souls and have not a single vestige of integrity left in them and it just shows the toxic impact of donald trump, someone like donald trump who has no ethics or principles and had no adherence to norms and standards and even the law. but he has influenced these individuals in such a way that again their actions are unconscionable. >> so, director, what do you say to people who are deeply worried as probably many are about the damage being done not just to american people's belief in the system but to the system, to american safety? with 64 more days of this sort of thing going on? we have 64 more days. >> yeah. i think there needs to be a national clarion call to a

the embarrassment of citing hugo chavez, and is the president pleased with this performance of rudy guiliani? >> can't be pleased with the press that it got obviously, and it was described by some conservative outlets as a rudy meltdown that took place but the president is still sort of amplifying the message that guiliani communicated. the trump campaign now set out more than 300 fund-raising e-mails since the election trying to raise money for the president's future political activities, and number two, he said he did not receive the smooth transition, which we know is not true. >> facts always don't get in the way of a good spin by the trump white house some days. peter, thank you. joining me now is the republican governor of maryland. he is one of the few people, and maybe he's the mediator in the transition for us. governor hogan, nice to see you. i have to ask you about what happened at the head quart kwrurquarters of the national republican party, and this was some out there stuff, governor, but they used the headquarters of the republican national committee. as a republican, how unco

his legal team led by rudy guiliani is making totally baseless claims pushing a litany of conspiracye failing to provide any credible evidence of fraud. cnn's pamela brown is following all of this for us. help break down some of the claims for our viewers about what's going on. >> reporter: let's tick through a few of them wolf starting with one of the most wild conspiracy theories that came out of this press conference with guiliani and another lawyer sydney powell claiming dominion voting systems featured software called smart matic created at the direction of the venezuelan president hugo chavez and has ties to the clinton foundation in george soros claiming it was used to change countless votes in favor of biden. this is not true. dominion was used in more than two dozen states but it is a u.s. based company and says it has no relationship with smart matic and no votes were ever changed by the system. smartmatic was only used in los angeles county in this election according to the company spokes person. all of this is backed up by u.s. government officials who said the election w

rudy guiliani heading the team challenging the election results totality fox news mr. trump is not backing down. >> is the president in this tweet conceding this election? >> no, no, no. far from it. what he's saying more, i guess you'd call it sarcastic. obviously he's contesting it vigorously in the courts. >> several lawsuit filed by the president and supporters have already been dismissed by the courts an the election oversight team and homeland security found this election is the most secure in american history. >> that's just the reality joe biden won this election. >> chief of staff said because mr. biden would be president during a pandemic the transition must be seamless, includes giving the biden team access to the people working on a vaccine. >> we now have the possibility, we need to see if it gets approves of a vaccine starting in december, january. our experts need to talk to those people soon as possible so nothing drops in the change of power. >> he said scientific advisors with the biden transition team will start meeting this week with drug company th

we heard from the president's legal team, jenna ellis and rudy guiliani, personal lawyer, calls this decision from the appellate court an activist judiciary machinery trying to cover up allegations of a massive fraud. so they vow they are going to fight on to the supreme court. it's worth noting the judges in this all nominated by republicans and the lead judge who wrote this pretty scathing opinion is a judge nominated by president trump in 2017. nonetheless, the attack on the judiciary system is being activists from the president's legal team and kayleigh mcenany spoke to this saying they're headed to the supreme court. take a listen. >> there is optimism. there will be a petition filed with the supreme court. it will be up to the supreme court whether to grant scirtior. and it's likely to succeed on the merits of the case in pennsylvania alleging the whole mail-in system was deem unconstitutional and going up to the supreme court. >> reporter: it's not clear that the supreme court would even take the case the trump team is pushing. the case that kayleigh mcenany is alleging has be

>> fair to say when rudy guiliani are making conspiracy claims, this is not a legal strategy. this is a public relations strategy aimed at one person. i chuckle when i hear this. xep it's dangerous. if there's a vast conspiracy they've been unable to unkwover any person in on this conspiracy. which apparently we as democrats only did in certain battleground states at not others. we also did this in not flipping senate seats and nair oeg the gap narrowing the gap in the house. quite a conspiracy theory. not about counting votes or legal challenges. this is about the president trying to delegitimize his successor and undermining the national security and homeland security of this country during a pandemic. it's irresponsible. >> david, read something written by peggy noonan, column in the "wall street journal" writes a bokus dispute is doing real damage and writes trump's staff and supporters should know trying to change the outcome are doing harm undercutting respect in and hope for democracy. republican senators and rep r representatives in their silence allowing the idea to t

rudy guiliani did not make a specific allegation of fraud in this case and he said sod himself. even what they are arguing, wolf, it's becoming very clear just isn't supported by the facts. >> yeah. these league arguments are being thrown out left and right. the president's latest tweet, jeremy comes after new pressure comes from a rather powerful republican member of congress in the calm leadership. >> as this process has dragged out -- we're more than two weeks out from the election now, you're starting to see some splintering in the republican party. which by and large has stuck by this. as he's tried to subvert. you were beginning to see some republican lawmakers who said joe biden, president-elect joe biden should be allowed to get some transition briefings, even at these court cases play out in the courts. you're seeing one member of house republican leadership, in this case liz cheney, essentially say it's time to put up or shut up. here's what she says. if the president cannot prove these claims or demonstrate that they would change the election results, he should fulfil

it's not rudy guiliani.damage that has already been done to our country by the inability of the republican party and specifically its leader, donald j. trump to admit defeat. >> what happens now? what's the biden campaign telling you? are they expecting cooperation anytime soon from the trump campaign? >> yes. yes. they are. i think they have talked to, repeatedly, to people who have left the trump administration under various circumstances, either thrown out, kicked out, fired, dismissed, whatever. so they've talked to a few people who have some knowledge of the logistical change dr. bright just talked about but they need to open the doors to the administration to give them full information so that people in rural north dakota that we were just talking about earlier, get the vaccine equitably. >> yeah. peter baker, bring in "new york times" peter baker. peter, there are aspects of this is just more of the same. the donald trump shock opera. it's donald trump's government by gesture. as has been said before.

rudy guiliani said he had evidence that it exists but it got lost in the mail. good afternoon, congressman, good to see you. >> hi, kristen, happy to be here. >> the honor is all ours. i know this has sperm meaning to you as an air force veteran. >> thank you. i appreciate that. and all the veterans who served. >> your tweet toe the republican lieutenant governor basically like bd his mentioning hey, let's find voter broad like finding big foot. we're pretty sure there's no big foot but how can we be sure there was no voter fraud. >> because donald trump's case has lost 16 court cases and won zero. at court they're saying there is no fraud. what we're seeing right now is simply unwillingness to accept the presidential election. what happened is joe biden beat donald trump by more than 150,000 vote in pennsylvania, this is not a close election. >> all right. and i know democrats have made the point that there is a difference between some error, which happens in every election, and fraud. if there's even just a tiny chance of error, however small the scale, what d

he served in the marines and was the city's mayor in the early 90's and then went onto defeat rudi guilianihis wife died just a month ago. >>> this morning the united states has seen 13 straight days of record hospitalizations. more than 80,000 patients right now. a coronavirus forecasting model has a grim prediction. the model from washington university in st. louis predicts the united states will pass 20 million cases before the end of january. the current total exceeds 12 million with nearly 258,000 deaths. health care workers in their 8th move the frontlines of this pandemic. at ucla's medical center nurses are sounding the alarm over holiday travel. they fear a surge of cases will wipe out supplies like ppe and coronavirus testing. now they are pleading for others to stay home. >> better safe than playing this russian rouulette. >> millions of people are still traveling. we are mad. >> a hiring freeze is also impacting their efforts in the er. meantime la county is on the brink of a stay at home order. it reported 6100 new cases yesterday. >>> across the bay area it's been hard to find

the integrity of our election, instill confidence in our election process, and this show that rudy guilianithers have been doing i have had zero confidence in what they have been talking about because if there was a bombshell evidence of election fraud, i'd like to see the bombs because i have not seen it and these are very irresponsible claims. but the important thing is to let voters know that every legal and legitimate vote will be counted. that is part of the process. and then we will move forward with the transition into the new administration. i certainly wish this president would have done this from day one but he clearly wants to make sure that this is done in a legal way and a legal and legitimate votes are counted and i think that's important. look, i happen to believe i'm one of those people that grew up playing team sports and when the game is over, the votes are counted, the clock is run out, you go on the field. you do the high five, and you say good game, good game. i would like to see this president do that. it's not going to happen. but i think the american people will do t

the michael flynn you knew, you know, it's striking to me as we were watching sidney powell and rudy guiliani the other day in the press conference, these are people who don't have insubstantial resumes. they have very august ones, as did michael flynn. he was the head of dia. he essentially got fired which bothered him. do you have a theory when you have somebody like that and look at his trajectory subsequently? >> mike was always a head strong individual and he was convinced of the rightness of his views but i don't know what it is that leads individuals to go astray. i've had discussions with many fbi officers over the years, and whether it be in business, if, or government, people who have led stellar lives up to the point where they decide to take that fork in the road that skirts the law and violates the principles and the ethics that they may have lived by before, so i think this is something that really has been, in fact, enhanced as a result of donald trump being in the white house, that too many individuals forget the responsibilities they have as government officials, as u.s. citi

rudy guiliani gave another doozy of a press conference today. it was a success in that it did not take place in a parking lot next to a dildo shop. [ laughter ] but otherwise, it was not a success. it was a desperate, vomitus attack on every american who bothered to vote. here's rudy using the movie "my cousin vinny" to explain why trump was swindled out of the vote in pennsylvania. >> we could do like -- did you all watch "my cousin vinny"? you know the movie? it's one of my favorite law movies because he comes from brooklyn. when the nice lady who said she saw, and then he says to her, how many fingers do i -- how many fingers do i got up? and she says, three. well, she was too far away. to see that it was only two. these people were further away than my cousin vinny was from the witness. >> jimmy: your honor, i rest my case. [ laughter ] [ applause ] bold move bringing up cousins from a guy who married one of his. but this is the best part of the press conference. this press conference went on for an hour and 45 minutes. and during that time,

among expected to be in attendance today the president's personal lawyer, rudy guiliani, who we have seenen in recent days has been working on the president's behalf on this very issue. the reporting from other outlets right now is that those around the president encouraged him not to attend today's event, which speaks of reporting that myself and other white house colleagues have to this point that a lot of those around the president have been saying he has the right to continue to the pursue this effort but end of the day, that it's not going to change the election's results, many of them communicated to the president. nonetheless, what i'm told is that. of those around the president say that he feels very strongly even though he knows he all hitly will lose or already has lost his election that this is an issue that is grand central to him he wants to look like he's fighting on behalf of his voters, and if he were to travel there that's exactly the reason why he'd be doing it. >> yeah. democrats will argue that the transition should not be a branding exercise, but, peter, thank fo

rudy guiliani just yesterday in philly. michael, take us to the transition team. new appointments? >> reporter: that's right, steph. we saw yesterday announcement of ten senior officials mostly behind the scenes players in the west wing, but now getting some indication of how the team is looking at what those public facing jobs would be. the most high profile roles of white house press secretary communications jobs. the team really considering what the communications department with the white house looks like in this rapidly changing media environment along with geoff bennett and kristen welker, my colleagues on this beat are hearing karine jean-pierre served as pop adviser to biden and now to vice president-elect kamala harris is leading candidate for press secretary position. kate bedingfield, deputy campaign manager and communications director in the campaign is the leading candidate to be communications director, in the white house, symone sanders also a top adviser in the campaign still in the mix. the biden team also considering some external candidates for

housewives" for being too crazy. [ light laughter ] seriously, you know how nuts you have to be when rudy guiliani'sarts leaking and you're the one who gets fired [ laughter ] for anyone asking what's more embarrassing than being on the trump legal team, the answer is getting fired from the trump legal team [ light laughter ] it's not easy to fire a conspiracy theorist either you say we have to let you go, they're like, "right i get it [ laughter ] i'll just -- i'll just go, then [ laughter ] i'll clean out my office." [ light laughter ] that's right sidney powell is out after she said the election was stolen by venezuelan dictator hugo chavez who died seven years ago [ light laughter ] yup, her conspiracy theories were too much even for trump well, today she wrote a farewell e-mail. it said, "my fellow trump lawyers, well, it finally happened the illuminati got me fired. luckily, you'll still find the culprits who hacked the election hugo chavez, charles barkley and flo the progressive insurance lady they're in a bunker nine miles below before the times square bubba gump's shrimp. the password to e

threatened lawsuits, and they are all smarter than everybody in trump's circle, way smarter than rudy guiliani, and they all dismissed them, and that washington square park is in the heart of the nyu, and it was heartening to me to hear the smart young people knowing just how hopeless and toothless the trump statements are about trying to legally fight this result. >> yeah, of course it is. listen, on the smart meter, it's not a high bar to jump over. they are toothless and it's baseless and they are going nowhere. when you look at all the people, the crowds all over the people, lawrence, democracy is fueled by faith and belief in the legitimacy of the system. and donald trump has done everything he could possibly do to pollute faith and belief in the american system, but it's like water breaking through the dam here. the american people have fired the most corrupt, the most indecent, the most incompetent president in american history, the most lethal president in american history. he has been removed from power. the great miracle of this country is the uninterrupted peaceful transition of pow

trump lawyer rudy guiliani alleges without evidence centralized voter fraud in the election — as theti patel, bullied members of her staff concludes she did break the ministerial code of conduct. and the dormouse that found himself in a rather tight spot

trump lawyer rudy guiliani alleges without evidence centralized voter fraud in the election — as thesident ignores the pandemic. georgia is about to release results of a hand recount of votes — expected to reaffirm joe biden as the winner of the state. also in the programme.... a draft report into claims home secretary, priti patel, bullied members of her staff concludes she did break the ministerial code of conduct. and the dormouse that found himself in a rather tight spot after a midnight feast that needed some sleeping off. hello i'm christian fraser is in london, laura trevelyan is in washington. some months ago president trump compared himself to a war time leader, fighting the invisible enemy. but a war team leader understands the threat. mobilisises people to respond. deploys the money and the might of the american government. stands ready to unite a worried nation. if there was ever a moment for a commander in chief this surely is it. yesterday the us surpassed a quarter of a million coronavirus deaths — and today is setting new daily records for and yet president trump is n

if he wants to send rudy guiliani or family members around the country to say things that is his rightl of the process. he is going to do this standing in the white house saying that essentially the beacon of america's democracy the white house he is going to say he is being cheated. the state has a trump like republican governor. a republican governor who listened to him when he said reopen please during the coronavirus who did just what the president wanted. they are counting votes legally. now, again, if the president's attorneys -- the other thing about this, there are democrats and republicans in every room where these ballots are being counted in this state and other states. there are eyes on this from everybody. if they see something really wrong they can raise their hand. we've heard nothing. >> we are told he is about to walk out. you and i were both white house correspondents and spent a lot of time in that briefing room. i can't remember a time when i'm bracing for what i am about to hear from a sitting president of the united states speaking from the west wing of the white

maybe the bigger question, why sidney powell, not rudy giuliani? guilianin't answer basic legal questions in federal court, his performance a mockery by any objective court observer. rudy giuliani who is under active investigation by the fbi, who unwittingly took a role in borat 2. and a press conference at a landscaping company next to a sex shop. sidney powell is simply the fall guy for a president that likes to win, who said we would be tired of winning, doesn't appear to be tired of losing. the election legal team and allies lost more than 30 court cases at this point. there must be a scapegoat. that is sidney powell, sacrificed for an effort to overturn the election that's melting faster than rudy giuliani's hair. >>> and ahead, president-elect biden revealing more picks from his cabinet, including the homeland security cabinet and role for john kerry and the former defense secretary says joe biden should drop the america first slogan. kids, what do you want for lunch? pizza. tacos. pizza! what about subway? it's a good call and everyone loves it. we r

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among the new infected, andrew guiliani, son of rudy giuliani, the president's attorney. he tweeted he tested positive and is in isolation. he has been seen often not wearing a mask at the white house as he is seen here, he is in a picture with his dad at the white house. the country is averaging more than 165,000 new cases every 24 hours. for the fourth straight day, hospitalizations are at an all-time high with just over 80,000 people in the hospital battling covid, and more than 2,000 americans died yesterday, largest daily death toll reported since may. just released modeling from a source often used by the white house projects there will be 471,000 deaths by march 1st. institute for health metrics and evaluation is upping the prediction because, quote, the pace of increase is faster than we expected. keep in mind, this is with 40 states reimposing social distancing mandates. if nothing were to be done, no restrictions, the death toll would rise to 658,000. ihme says that if 95% of people wore masks every time they left their house, 65,000 lives could be spared. they