History have paved the way for this moment tonight. Shattering the glass ceiling. While i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last, because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. The Campaign Ends with celebrations and protests across america. [ crowd chanting ] as President Trump confronts defeat, the president elect prepares to lead, grappling with a raging pandemic, a faltering economy, a nation divided by race, region and politics. Announcer from abc news, this is a special edition of this week, your voice, your vote 2020. Here now chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning, and welcome to this week. The week america chose to end the trump presidency. After four years of division and tumult, assaults on truth and treasured institutions, voters turned out in record numbers to turn the page, replacing a reality tv star raised in wealth with a career politician from the working class. In his first speech as president elect, a forceful joe biden delivered a soothing message, its time to heal. For all those of you who voted for President Trump, i understand the disappointment tonight. Ive lost a couple times myself, but now lets give each other a chance. Its time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again and to make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies. They are americans. As we come on the air this morning, President Trump is raging against the results with false statements on twitter. His team vowing to overturn them with legal challenges that have little prospect of success. The votes are still being counted across the country, and joe bidens lead in the popular vote is over 4 million and climbing. Hes ahead in enough states to eventually match the 306 electoral votes won by trump in 2016. This morning we look back at the lessons of this election, look ahead to the challenges now facing joe biden and the country he will lead. We begin with our chief White House Correspondent jon karl, rachel scott in wilmington with president elect biden, and, rachel, let me begin with you, the Biden Transition Team plans on hitting the ground tomorrow. Reporter george, it will be a busy stretch. Just 73 days until the inauguration and know that before this race was even called that bidens Transition Team was already working quietly behind the scenes. Theyve assembled these review teams to start working with the federal agencies so he can hit the ground running and we also know that here in wilmington they are having those discussions about who is going to be in those critical positions inside of the west wing and the administration. This is a Seismic Shift in american politics, and the makeup of this next administration will look dramatically different from the current one. Biden has already pledged to have the most diverse cabinet in american history, and he has already said what his priorities are coming out on stage yesterday saying hes going to start with that Coronavirus Task force assembling the team of scientists and experts that he believes will help slow the spread of the virus. Rachel, hes already preparing a list of executive actions, executive orders he plans to enact on day one. Reporter yeah, a lot of this has to do with the senate. We do not know what the control of the senate is going to be, if republicans are going to hang on, so we know his team is already having conversations about what he can do on his own through executive actions, but biden has already made clear what he would like to do on day one. He would like to rejoin the world health organization. He would like to repeal the muslim ban. He would like to reinstate daca, george, again, just dramatically different from the current administration. Rachel scott, thanks very much. Lets bring in jon karl right now. Jon karl, the president back on twitter this morning in denial. Reporter george, the president is angry and defiant, banging out all caps tweets claiming that he won the election, making false claims of massive voter fraud. He has not called to congratulate biden. He certainly hasnt delivered a concession speech or even begun thinking about writing a concession speech. In fact, hes pursuing lawsuits that he hopes that somehow would overturn the election without any legal basis. But, george, heres the thing. Virtually everybody in the president s inner circle, his true closest advisers including his family members are fully aware that this is over. There have been conversations, conversations that i am told include the first lady about how to convince him to make something of a graceful exit, how to go to him and talk to him about the movement he has built, about his role in the Republican Party, about the way he can be a kingmaker in 2022, 2024 and maybe even run again and how if he doesnt leave in the right way, he could jeopardize all of that. But, george, if the president and everybody fully expects him to eventually make this concession speech, it wont be a concession speech like any we have seen. He wont concede that he lost. What i would expect him to do is to effectively concede that the election was stolen from him and have a long list of grievances about the way they tried to deprive him of his presidency. Which, of course, is not a concession at all. Meantime, there is actual real Practical Impact on the transition. Until the General Services administration acknowledges the victory of joe biden, theres no funding for the transition. Reporter and that is being held up as of right now. I have to tell you, though, im told to expect that in the coming days that the president will commit to a peaceful transfer of power even as he is making these claims that the presidency has been stolen from him. So those around him expect that those funds will be freed up before long. And any sense of what else we can expect in this lame duck session between now and january 20th . Of course, you got a big covid relief package potentially on the table that couldnt get negotiated before the election. The president has all the powers of the presidency until january 20th. Reporter 73 days, george, and i am told were likely to see firings. Hes mused about firing mark esper, the defense secretary, christopher wray, the fbi director. Of course, he joked, maybe joked, maybe not about what he would do with Anthony Fauci and the Coronavirus Task force, so lots of questions there. I would expect you would also see a series of pardons, but you do have that big thing hanging over the presidency, hanging over the country, and that is the pandemic. Entirely unclear of the path ahead for the president on that. Jon karl, thanks very much. Lets bring this all to the roundtable. Right now im joined by rahm emanuel, yvette simpson, Chris Christie here in the studio, also matthew dowd in austin, texas, Heidi Heitkamp in north dakota this morning. Thank you all for joining us. Rahm, let me begin with you. It took a while to get to the final result. Its not that four or five days. Whats the big message from this election . Well, i think a couple things at least on the president ial level. Style is the substance in the sense that this was very much what biden said not only about my character versus the president , but the character of the country and the country was i kind back to grant park, 2008, that was jubilation. This is catharsis and in a sense that this is a relief from this darkness of attack and pitting. I think americans were exlawsoned by the constant pitting against us and they want washington a little distant in their lives, go back to your work. Get our lives well get our lives in order, which is why so many were focused on the pandemic and the economy in a sense of being able to get back to some level of normalcy. I do think also the Vice President is a bit of a restoration to that normalcy but has to be transformative and has to walk both sides of that sidewalk together. So i think that in this many there are many issues. But if you look at the five states that flipped from 2016 to now, there is a lot of similarities and at the end of the day, joe biden, even though he was ridiculed in the primary, the breadth of his coalition, that is how he has to govern, and he has to be authentic to that breadth, and that is who he is as a character that people felt comfortable with him with this responsibility. Chris christie, President Trump won 71 million votes at least. In the end though it still was a referendum on him. Well, yeah, i think you heard me speaking since the summer that he couldnt win a referendum, not in the middle of a pandemic, not in the middle of an economic recession that was caused by the pandemic and in the midst of real racial issues in our country. You cant win a referendum in that respect. The referendum winners are people like bill clinton in 96 and, you know, Ronald Reagan in 1984 where theres not a lot of argument that the country is moving in the right direction, the good direction. But the message of the election too is a mixed message, which i think from listening to the Vice President last night, he hears. You know, republicans added to the house. We dont know quite how many yet but at least five, maybe more. Governorships flipped. State legislatures flipped towards republicans, and more likely than not a Republican Senate, so that even reinforces more your premise, which i adopt that it was a referendum election at the president ial level. But it was not a rejection of republican policies across the country because if it was, there would have been the wave that rahm talked about beforehand rather than the undertow that i talked about before. Yvette simpson, it will depend on those two special elections in georgia on january 5th. This is the culmination on the democratic side of four years of activism. Absolutely. And i think we need to continue that. You know, i think this is a great time for the Democratic Party to hit the reset button. Like lets go back to our roots. Organizing is our foundation, remember the big wave of 08 that came from a strong organizing foundation built by barack obama. Lets continue to build on that and lets talk to our voters consistently. Lets as the president elect said lets make real the promises that we have made to the base of the party who has been with us, who showed up through a pandemic. Lets make sure that we recognize that before we go out and start, you know, trying to build this huge coalition. Lets show the folks who showed up that we love them and lets continue to stay consistent. I do want to push back a little bit on the flip situation. We won a lot of seats last cycle and republicans got some of those back, but i do believe in places where we were true to our mission, we won. For instance, the progressives who were in swing seats all won. But the moderates who were in swing seats didnt. And i think part of that is we didnt make our message clear enough. Go with what you know. Go with talking about serving real people. You can do that in moderate districts, and it doesnt have to feel extreme. It just says, im here for you and i represent you. That is the foundation of the peoples house. The representative form of government. Lets continue to reinforce those mess ans. Matthew dowd, what were the people saying . Well, i think the people were saying, im tired of the chaos. I want calm. I really dont want to hear from the president every single day about every single thing. I think a year and a half ago or two years ago, somebody asked me what the slogan should be for a candidate running against donald trump. And i said, make america boring again, and i think the country just doesnt want to hear if i were joe biden, i would stand up on the first day in office and say, guess what, youre not going to hear me from me on weeks on end because ill be in the oval office and you wont have to worry about me. One thing ill say, george, yesterday was a good day for Irish Catholics. Joe biden is an Irish Catholic but even as importantly, notre dame beat clemson last night, the Number One Team in the country, so i mean i think were a divided country. I think people want calm and decency and character. I dont think people are satisfied with either of the two Political Parties. On election day they got a lot of votes, but people werent satisfied with either Political Party on election day, and so i think were going to go back. I think its actually a good moment because in order to get something done, people are going to have to cooperate and compromise, and thats what most americans want. They want cooperation and they want compromise and to get the job done. Heidi heitkamp, the president elect said its a mandate for cooperation. Heidi . Hi. You know, i want to push back a little bit on this idea that moderates didnt win. You know, i think that its pretty easy when you look at the districts when youre a progressive running in new york city, its really easy to win elections as a democrat. Its not so easy in states like mine and i think that the most important thing that we can do is identify successes. Early successes that all democrats could agree on, whether that is curbing the cost of prescription drugs, which the president tried to take as his own. Its going to be really tricky, but i think for joe biden, yes, he needs to have the right rhetoric. But he needs to have victories for working people in this country to establish that base and solidify that base for the next two years and hopefully four years. Progressives in swing states won. Progressives who ran on actual issues in swing states won, and so were not talking about folks in new york. Were talking about people who just flipped these red seats like katie porter, like mike levin, seats we never had before. They won overwhelmingly and what im saying is no matter where we are, and i think we agree on this, heidi, no matter where we are, lets talk to the issues. Lets not run away from them. And i think there was this expectation because trump was such a vitriol character that we could win by just saying trump is bad, and what im saying is serve the people in your district and find out what they need and we can deliver that. The real fear i have, george, 2022 is right around the coordinator. Dfa got our first application for a candidate running for u. S. Senate yesterday for 2022. 2024 is around the corner. Well need our best. Im not sure anybody is ready to hear that yet. Its scary. Its right around the corner. I know well be seeing maybe some president ial kates for 2024 maybe starring to talk soon, and what im saying, lets not wait. Lets have that conversation now. Lets organize. Lets build. Because were going to need our base to win. I think what youre saying is listen to heidi, yvette, rahm, is the difficulty going to be unifying the Democratic Party while reaching out to republican. Yes and no. I think if you go back to the campaign, he did actually a very, very good job of keeping everybody inside, and actually the truth is the progressive wing of the party was less ideological and more pragmatic that we had an overarching goal. Let me draw back. Joe biden is a progressive. He said it. But theres a lesson to be learned. Jeremy corbyn lost in england and joe biden won in the united states. That you can make the first step in progressive politics being enacted is winning and elected. You can and i agree with yvette about organizing, but organizing not just with its either my way or not. Being very and they were progressive. They and when joe biden said in the debates, i beat Bernie Sanders, you didnt see Bernie Sanders yell or scream. He understood the singular goal, is, a, beating trump, b, making down payments on progressive policies. They may more incremental than some like but go there and i think joe biden if he doesnt stay true to the coalition who elected him and if youre not authentic, whatever you want to say about donald trump, and i dont like what he did to america, what the reason his people showed up is they thought he was authentic. If you cant be authentic, fake it. Chris christie, you said that joe biden had the right words last night speaking out to the trump supporters. How does he follow through on that, and then the flip side of that question is, are republicans ready to work with him . I mean, its kind of stunning that you havent seen him congratulated by more republicans, the republican leader of the senate has not acknowledged his victory. I think youve only had senator murkowski and romney so far acknowledge the victory. Will he have a willing partner in republicans . Just so that people who watch us often think that at times matt dowd and i dont agree on anything, here were getting together. Heres my mask this morning so matt and i are on the same page this morning even though we dont often agree on some other things. Listen, i think its going to be issue by issue, george, in terms of whether republican also work with democrats and vice versa. Dont they have to start by acknowledging his victory . Well, of course, they do, and, you know, listen, this was a very contentious election. You have the president sitting in the white house not acknowledging it, and i think theres lots of republicans who are trying to feel their way around that. Still afraid of him . Thats why to me i think it was so important early on to say to the president , if your base is for not conceding is that there was voter fraud, then show us. Show us, because if you cant show us, we cant do this. We cant back you blindly without evidence, and thats why i said what i said on wednesday morning and on thursday night. And im hoping that more republicans move in the direction of saying, not that we dont support the president , hes been a friend of mine for 20 year, but friendship doesnt mean that youre blind. Friendship means that you will listen to somebody, give them their opportunity, and if they dont come forward with the proof, then its time to move on. Matthew dowd . Yeah, i think if that the two Political Parties had both a successful night and a huge amount of warning signs on tuesday night. Turnout was amazing. There was huge support of each Political Party. They had a higher share of their own Political Partys support than ever before, but theres a ton of warning signs for each Political Party, and i think they need to look at themselves and introspect on themselves. You have a Republican Party who dominates now among rural areas and small towns and exurban areas and does really well with the White Working Class which used to be the Democratic Base but the Republican Party has lost urban areas, is losing suburban areas, is not building enough on people of color, and the democrats, on the other hand as i say, opposite of that theyre doing very well in urban and suburban areas but lost a huge swath of the country and when you look at the Election Results, joe biden had a very big, huge victory, but along the way there was a ton of mixed results for both Political Parties, so if they sit there and point the finger at the other side and say, its their fault, its their fault, its their fault, and im not saying theres equal blame on both sides, i think President Trump, as you know my feelings about that, i think he took the country in a direction both just emotionally and psychically in a bad direction that i think the country didnt agree with and thats why i think he lost, but the two Political Parties have to look at their own tribe first and say what is it that were not doing because were not appealing to huge parts of the country that caused the Division Within the country. Heidi heitkamp, can the president elect reach out to your state, north dakota, reach out to that broad swath in the middle of the country that has gone deep red . Im going to give you a proof point to where what matt is just saying. 65 of the people in north dakota think Climate Change is a problem. Were a big fossil state. Were a conservative state but yet they see Climate Change is a problem. They get concerned when they see radical ideas being introduced to completely upend the Energy System because that creates angst in their mind both economically and in terms of cost of energy. There is a place that you can go in solving these problems that speaks to all sides and does not radicalize important issues in this country. We saw that with the pandemic, which was incredible how masks got radicalized and politicized. We need to stop doing that and we need to come together and both sides have to address the concerns that the other side has on solutions for this country. You know, the unity that we have is really unity about what the problems are. Its bringing together solutions that can bring everybody together so that we can walk together and solve americas problems. I think we have to start out by bringing you and yvette together. She just said radical three times. You just called the base of the Democratic Party progressives radical. That is not i mean, thats a republican talking point. Progressives want everyone to breathe clean air, even people in north and south dakota. We want everyone to have health care. Even people in rural areas and even people in working class white america. We want everyone to have a chance at the american dream. Were not saying leave people out. Were saying bring people in. But if parts of our party, when we bring home the bacon like we did yesterday call us radical like republicans did, thats not the starting place of a good family conversation. One level said here one level said is, bill clintons budget in 1993 which is an mick plan. Barack obamas Health Care Bill got over the top by two senators, different senators from nebraska. You got to be able to as matt and others you got to be able to run in places and win, thats number one. Number two, you said to george early on lessons, red state florida voted for trump, i hate saying red state but voted for an increase in minimum wage. In illinois where im from it voted for joe biden and against a progressive income tax. California, a very blue state voted against workers rights for gig employees. That was an awful initiative the way it was written. The point is life is complicated and to get the threads here, youre going to have to have policies that actually bring votes rather than push those votes away. You know, were just about out of time. Chris, i have to ask a final question. What is it going to take for President Trump to acknowledge what happened here, accept defeat, leave gracefully . I dont know, but what i will tell you is im overjoyed by this conversation because for republicans its what ive been saying that didnt work out for you last time, though. Im just saying. It worked out fine for us. You know, what i want to see Going Forward is for people to acknowledge that i dont think this is a Party Problem. Candidates matter, george. This was not a Party Problem four years ago for the republicans to win in the suburbs. Donald trump won in the suburbs. This time joe biden won the suburbs because he was running against a candidate that the suburbs rejected. Candidates are what matters, the parties follow the candidates. Joe biden himself said it. I am the Democratic Party. Okay, so lets not make this a party thing. Its not. 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Pepto bismol coats and soothes your stomach for fast relief and now, get the same fast relief in a delightful chew with new pepto bismol chews. Refusal of democrats and republicans to cooperate with one another is not some Mysterious Force beyond our control. Its a decision, a choice we make, and if we can decide not to cooperate, then we can decide to cooperate, and i believe that this is part of the mandate given to us from the American People, they want us to cooperate in their interests, and thats the choice ill make. President elect biden in wilmington last night. Were joined by two men who he wants to cooperate, the senator from delaware chris coons who holds joe bidens Old Senate Seat and senator roy blunt. You heard president elect biden talk about that mandate for cooperation. Put some meat on those bones. Whats the first piece of legislation . Can the president get what he wants from a closely divided senate . You just heard rahm, yvette and heidi about the Democratic Party as well. Well, george, thanks for a chance to be on. It was an electric night last night, and the joy that i saw both here in wilmington and across the country reflects the optimism that we will be able to come together and deliver the relief that the American People need and deserve from this pandemic. I think that joe biden as president elect, and forgive me, it still makes me smile just to say that, that joe is going to be able to pull together leaders in congress to deliver the relief that we need and deserve, and one way that President Trump can show some graciousness in the next 73 days during the transition is to publicly support a significant pandemic relief bill. Weve had record new cases all this past week. Its past time for us to come together and deliver the relief the American People are waiting for. Are you concerned at all that if a smaller package is passed during the lame duck session, it would make it more difficult to pass the kind of bold package that president elect biden would like to pass once he is president . Well, frankly, the only way were going to pass a big or bold package either in the transition period or in the coming year is with bipartisan support. So i expect that well hear from Vice President elect harris and from president elect biden outreach to Republican Senate leaders, as well as to members of the house and senate, governors and to the administration. I dont think that passing something that is strong now undermines the opportunity to pass something broader. We, frankly, dont know where this pandemic is going right now, but its not going in a good direction. Joe will be announcing his Pandemic Response plan and team in more detail tomorrow, because hes getting ready to act as president on january 20th. How critical are those georgia runoffs to enacting the biden agenda . Well, theres four Different Senate races that are not yet called, and as you pointed out, theres two runoffs in early january. And all eyes will be on those seats because theyll determine control of the senate. But ill remind you, joe biden just won a commanding majority across the country in the electoral college. If wed seen all of those states come in on one night at the same time, wed be remarking on how all over the country from states like pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, to states that democrats havent won in decades like georgia and arizona, joe biden won 75 million votes in the popular vote, and hes got, i think, a mandate to bring us together and move us forward. I think the American People have chosen unity over division and hope over fear, and that gives me optimism about what we can do in the months ahead. Youve been mentioned as a possible secretary of state in a Biden Administration. Are you interested, number one, and can the president elect afford to in a closely divided senate have senators join his cabinet and face the possibility at least of special elections in the future . Well, i was just reelected to the senate from delaware and very much look forward to serving the people of delaware. Hopefully by delivering some progress towards bipartisanship on a harris biden agenda. But if asked id be honored to serve. Joe is someone whos long a leader in Foreign Policy and ive served on the Foreign Relations committee a decade and theres a lot of hard work to do to reengage with the world and restore our place of leadership on the world stage. Your gop colleague from missouri roy blunt is up next. Whats your message to him and other republicans who still havent acknowledged the president elects victory . Well, i thought former governor christies message in your roundtable was an important one. If republicans are going to support President Trump in his resistance to accepting the outcome of the election, the president needs to show some facts, not just angry tweets. Senator blunt and i have worked well together on a wide range of issues from National Service to Behavioral Health. He is someone, although a strong and committed conservative, knows how to work across the aisle and deliver results for his state and our country. Im hopeful we can rekindle that spirit of working across the aisle in the coming congress. Senator coons, thanks very much. Lets bring in senator blunt right now. Senator blunt, thanks for joining us this morning. You just heard senator coons. Whats your response . Well, chris is right. Weve worked on a lot of things from the victims of child abuse to Behavioral Health to the National Service. Were going to continue to find ways to work together. One of the great things about the senate and the senate rules which i think if we maintain the majority will continue to be the same is you have to reach across the aisle. You have to find in almost every Senate Somebody on the other side to get things done. Thats a good thing. Senators are inclined to do that and, you know, where we are now, i think, george, is kind of like that movie analyze this where the key phrase was, its a process. Theres a process here that we need to go through. I think both Vice President biden and President Trump benefit from that process, working its way totally through the process. You know, actually the media can project, but the media doesnt get to decide who the winner is. There is a canvassing process. That needs to happen. I said on friday i thought it was time for the president to turn this discussion over to his lawyers, time for the lawyers to make the case that they have, both in court and to the American People, and then were going to have to deal with those facts as theyre presented. That has to happen, and then we move forward. Let me stop you right there. Let me say one other thing. Okay. Let me say one other thing go ahead. Well, senator murkowski and romney have both go ahead. Say your piece and then ill go ahead with my next question. They certainly have the right to do whatever they want to do. I think this is a time when the extra five days or so to get the process finished to actually let the states look at the challenges in their state, this is a close election. This is closer than anybody thought. If youre the president and you look at the press projecting something, almost nothing the press projected in this election turned out to be right. There was no blue wave. If there is a mandate, the mandate is we want people to work together. There werent great losses of republican candidates because of President Trump, nor did President Trump get a threshing. He actually with hispanic voters, with black voters, with but, senator, lets talk about the facts right now. I mean, senator murkowski and senator romney have both acknowledged the victory, congratulated president elect biden. The president elect is up by 10,000 votes in georgia, almost 20,000 in arizona, 27,000 in nevada, 37,000 and climbing in pennsylvania, far more in the other states. Youre a former secretary of state. Ive spoken with secretary of states, democrat and republican, state officials over the last several days and said theyve seen no widespread evidence of any kind of fraud at all. Joe biden has won this election. Why cant you acknowledge it . Well, what i said on friday and what Chris Christie said just a few minutes ago on this show is, its time for the president s lawyers to present the facts, and then its time for those facts to speak for themselves. Its going to be much easier to work toward the kind of transition we want, look at the inauguration, which im going to have the honor of chairing again this time and bringing the country together. If everybody feels like we went through a process and everybody was heard, every legal vote was counted, every illegal vote was challenged and not counted, we come to a conclusion, i think that happens pretty quickly. Almost every state within seven to ten days of the election goes through that entire canvas. There are always some changes, seems unlikely that any changes could be big enough to make a difference, but this is a close election, and we need to acknowledge that. I read twice in reports this morning the democrats the democrat blue wall has returned. The blue wall of pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. The blue wall is at best a blue speed bump now. This is a competitive country. There is a message to whoever the next president is to work together. I look forward to the president dealing with this however he needs to deal with it. I thought Vice President biden did a great job last night talking about where the country wants to head, and one way to do that is to finish this election the way it deserves to be finished. Youre chairman of the rules committee right now. In charge of the inauguration as you said. Are we going to have anything like a normal inauguration given the pandemic . Were going to decide. Were planning for a normal inauguration. The sixperson committee, three senators, three house members that i chair, were moving forward anticipating an outside fullscale inauguration. Its easier to scale back than to scale up, and were going to be talking to people this week about that very topic and hope that the person whos sworn in on inaugural day sees it as a great day even though it happens at the capitol is up to the congress to decide. The president elect is our guest that day, and once again i think were going to project to the world that democracy works, that this country with the president s efforts and other efforts, Incredible Energy in this election produced a result and that this is a great time for us to show how a true democracy works, and hopefully well im confident were going to see that. I expect to see both Vice President biden and President Trump on the stage on inaugural day and that will be a powerful message no matter which one of them is sworn in that day. Senator blunt, thanks for your time this morning. Up next, south dakota governor kristi noem and new York Governor Andrew Cuomo. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. 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Look, were coming up to the worst two months i think that we may have seen visavis covid. You see the numbers going crazy all across this country, all across the globe, the scientists said this was going to happen. And youre seeing it in the fall with the cold coming back, and were going to have a long two months. Unfortunately, the Biden Administration doesnt take office until january 20th. I know this was the election, but thats a long two months. And then after the fall resurgence, this administration is now starting to implement the vaccination plan. Thats going to be very important, and thats probably the largest test weve had since covid started. The vaccination plan is a huge undertaking. 330 Million People have to be vaccinated. This nation only did 120 million covid tests in seven months. If this administration rolls out a flawed vaccination plan, its going to be a problem because its going to be very hard for the Biden Administration to turn it back. But i think youll see a different tone now. I think youll even see some governors take a different tone now that mr. Trump is out of office. I think the political pressure of denying covid is gone. I think youll see scientists speak with an unmuzzled voice now. And i think the numbers are going to go up, and americans are going to get how serious this is. And what is your read of the mandate of this election . When you pore over the results from across the country and we have had discussion about it this morning, what is your read on that . Look, i think its right what some of your earlier guests said. Theres a message for both parties in all of this. But i think the overwhelming message was it was about President Trump. And the country rejected the negativity, the personality, the controversy, he did everything he could, george, to divide the nation, right . He disunited the states of america, and joe biden is the exact opposite. You heard him speak from his heart last night. Thats who he is. He is an authentic person. Hes about finding commonality, which is an affirmative effort, you know. We are different in this country, and we can very easily faction our lives, and thats what trump played on, divide and conquer religious issues, racial issues, the gun issue, the abortion issue, the immigration issue. It was all about dividing america. Youll see joe biden is going to be all about that affirmative effort to find the commonality, the core that connects. I think thats what it was about. I think there was also a general disdain for washington when peoples lives are under real stress and theyre having real challenges, theyre pointing fingers in washington, and if there was ever a time in history not to do it, now was the time. The president elect will have to unify democrats and will also have to work with republicans. Governor kristi noem is coming up next. What is your message to her and other republicans who have so far not acknowledged and we heard senator blunt earlier president elect bidens victory. Look, i think its a mistake. First of all, it is the exact disunity that was just rejected, right . Now youre going to stretch to find some legal case and further deteriorate trust in the democratic constitution of this nation. If these Election Results came in on one night, george, i i i would be called a blowout, that would be the headline, right . 4 million popular votes, states no one thought joe biden thought would win. The voting trump was counting on, the military vote, et cetera, never materialized. It would be a blowout. Stop the rancor. Stop the fighting. We have real problems. Lets move on together. And i think youll see this year im chairman of the National Governors association. I think youll see republican governors who were cowered by trumps philosophy to deny covid, dont take tests because if you take tests, then youll find cases, the scientists couldnt speak up, his own Health Officials were muzzled, i think that day is over, and i think youll see this covid rebound putting forth a stark reality to governors all across the nation because its going to be the states that denied covid that are now going to be paying the highest price. Governor cuomo, thanks for your time this morning. Lets bring in governor kristi noem right now. You just heard Governor Cuomo right there. Governor noem, thanks for joining us. Covid is rising in your state as well. Cases are up, hospitalizations are up. Deaths are up. Are you prepared to work with president elect biden to get it under control . Well, it is a regional increase that were seeing. We are testing more and, frankly, im not going to take advice from Governor Cuomo. He has the second worst death rate per 100,000 people in this nation. Hes at 173 deaths per 100,000 per capita. South dakota is at 54. I appreciated that President Trump gave us the flexibility to do the right thing in our state and will continue to do that. He let me do my job. But the other thing that i think is going on here, george, is that this is all premature, this is a premature conversation because we have not finished counting votes. There are states that have not been called and back in 2000 al gore was given his day in court. We should give President Trump his day in court. Let the process unfold because, george, we live in a republic. We are a government that gets its power from the consent of the governed. That is the people. They give their consent on election day. Election day needs to be fair, honest and transparent, and we need to be sure that we had an honest election before we decide who gets to the white house governor noem, do you have any evidence it wasnt an honest election . You put out a tweet earlier this week that it was rigged. Any evidence of widespread fraud . I spoke with republican secretaries of state in georgia, in arizona. Ive spoken with republican officials across the country. They have come up with zero evidence of widespread fraud. And that is not true. That is absolutely not true. People have signed legal documents, affidavits stating that they saw illegal activities, and that is why we need to have this conversation in court. The New York Times itself said that there were clerical errors. No widespread fraud, governor. Thats very different. We had computer glitches that changed republican votes to democrat votes. You look in pennsylvania, dead people voted in pennsylvania. So, george, i dont know how widespread it is. I dont know if itll change the outcome of the election, but why is everybody so scared just to have a Fair Election and find out . We gave al gore 37 days to run the process before we decided who was going to be president. Why would we not afford the 70. 6 million americans that voted for President Trump the same consideration . Governor noem if joe biden really wants to unify this country, he would wait and make sure that we can prove we had a Fair Election. Al gore was behind by 500 votes in one state, florida. Joe biden is ahead in all the close states by multiple look how many we had today. 10,000 votes in georgia, 27,000 votes in nevada, almost 20,000 votes in arizona, more than 30,000 votes in pennsylvania. That is not close. That is not within the margin that elections are usually turned around on. And many, many more states are in play this time around. And thats what i think is interesting is this declaration from some individuals saying it was an overwhelming victory for joe biden. It simply wasnt because you have so many of these states that are still in play. All im asking for, george, is that we dont break this country. When you break the process on which we elect our leaders, you will break america forever, so this isnt just about this election. This is about every election in the future and the fact that the American People, the everyday people who get up and work hard that are suffering through this pandemic that have tragically lost family members, that they need to know at least america still functions, and we care about doing things right. It starts with providing evidence. You still have not provided that but im afraid out of time. Governor noem. Thanks for your time. Let the process work and we will. Well be right back. Back. That is all for us today. Thanks for sharing part of your sunday with us. 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