Im setting you free. You dont have to go home, you just cant stay here right now. You dont have to go home, but youve got to get out of here. It was so weird. It was an emotional day for people just watching the announcement of cabinet appointees. What is going on in this country . I was emotional at one point. I thought to myself, i feel like weve all been in a really bad relationship and then the next person who calls you back is the greatest man youve ever dated in your whole life. He said hello and goodbye. Thats what you almost hear. This was a very, very qualified group of people. Were so accustomed to seeing one of your guest talked about the want ads. I dont think its quite that bad. The idea of rubbing elbows seemed to replace actual experience. Now we have a time when that seems to be coming back, right . I do wonder how its going to bode long term. A lot of these people are so familiar that people might think its an obama 2. 0. Thats not everyones cup of tea for some reason. Listen, when you think about the economy that we had under the Obama Administration that has continued on into the trump administration, rescuing us from the great recession, the stock market. The stock market is not an indicator of how average americans are doing, but for trump its been a barometer to him. He loves to tout the economy is doing, the stock market is great. The stock market was great under president obama. He kept it going. Unemployment, the same thing. So maybe people are looking for an obama 2. 0 and thats what they got . Maybe thats why they feel the burden has been lifted off their shoulders. Im not one to judge, im wondering and asking the question. Part of the clam pain platform build back better. This is a restorative administration. Well see how it goes. I was excited to see people excited about watching the news and press conferences again. I didnt have people running to change the station when president elect came on because the kids might hear something. There was something about the idea of hearing people who were talking about their service to the nation that we starved for a long time at this point. I have to say, it was a good optimistic day for people. I think people are in the houses tired in sweat suits and anything gives them joy. Class is back because its time for laura. All right. Well, thank you, don lemon. You dont have to go home but this is cnn tonight and im laura coates. President elect biden introducing his Incoming National security and Foreign Policy team. And with a transition formally underway, the white house signing off on joe biden receiving the president s daily brief of classified intelligence. With the covid19 pandemic raging out of control, this is the 15th consecutive day of record hospitalizations. More than 88,000 people in hospitals right now. I want to bring in cnn White House Correspondent john harwood and Ron Brownstein. Im so glad you are both back. Those numbers are giving everyone pause. Hello and good evening. Let me start with you, john. Cnn is learning tonight that President Trump is considering pardoning his old familiar National Security advisor michael flynn. What can you tell bus this . Well, this is exactly what weve been expecting, laura. The president has signaled privately and publicly that he may do this. Dont know that the final decision has been made but its on the table. The president is interested in pardoning people that might have information that could hurt him. The Justice Department under President Trump, bill barr, has been trying to walk back the prosecution of michael flynn. Judge sullivan in washington has kind of put the brakes on that. One way for the president to get around this is to pardon michael flynn. Theres also Paul Manafort who, of course, was sentenced to prison. Was accused by Robert Mueller of having agreed to cooperate and lying to investigators. Got additional prosecution. You could see a pardon for Paul Manafort as well as other people in the president s inner circle, those who might have legal exposure not to exclude the president himself. Dont know that he has it. Laura, you can speak to this whether he has the Legal Authority to pardon himself. If he concludes he does and he thinks he needs it, he would do it. Well, of course, a long list of people to include in that, including maybe preemptive pardons. People who already have these convictions. What about those who might be investigated right now. Also weve known a Record Number of americans are hospitalized with coronavirus tonight. You look at this graph on the screen. We get more than 2100 deaths were just reported today. President elect biden has plans for joon anuary 20th. President trump is still in charge for another 57 days. What is his plan to do something about this . We really cant take 57 more days of this. Well, i dont think, laura, the president the current president has much of a plan for this. Hes pretty much checked out of the job. Hes focused on trying to kick up dust still about the election, which joe biden has won and the transition is underway, but he has not shoni interest in actually doing the job as president. Very few events on the schedule. None on the schedule posted tomorrow. Hasnt taken questions from reporters in three weeks and i think now that the transition is underway, certainly the career people in the government and even some of the people serving under President Trump, political appointees, theres going to be a gravitational pull of taking cues from the incoming biden team rather than from a president that doesnt seem very interested in the pandemic or other aspects of the job. Ron, theres a tragedy. You expect somebody, anybody to run through the tape even when somebody else has gone through the finish line first. On that notion, president elect biden says hes going to focus on the coronavirus, immigration, on Climate Change all within the first very valuable 100 days. He also said this, ron. Take a listen. The most important thing i think is while i do while we try to do all of this, focus on those folks who are always when crisis hits, theyre the first one hits and recovery comes, theyre the last one in. Thats basically minority communities that are hurt very badly, making sure that we get the aide that was voted on in the house and passed by the senate, in some cases, and much of which has not passed, get the kind of help to keep people afloat. I mean, its pretty ambitious, ron. Yeah. You know biden in fact needs republicans to get this done. How is he going to do that when you have most who wont acknowledge he is the next president of the United States . Its an ominous signal, laura. The current president is awol under fire. Its the equivalent of a captain of a navy ship abandoning his post while he stews in his state room about how to protect himself and what is his next career plan. The president is doing this without a peep of protest from republicans in congress. As you know, very few of them have stepped out and opposed even his efforts to undermine and subvert the election. And that gives a sense of the magnitude of the challenge that joe biden faces Going Forward. The fact that mitch mcconnell, who could be the Senate Majority leader, will at least be the Senate Minority leader, has not said a word to acknowledge bidens victory, has not said a word to press trump to be more proactive in dealing with the virus. You know, it was to my colleague, major garrett, he said his principle legislative goal was to make barack obama a oneterm president. We will see whether he can rise above that at a moment in which the country is facing one of its greatest crises since world war ii. A commander in chief awol in the line of fire. What an image. I appreciate that. I want to bring in anthony scaramucci. How are you doing . Hi, laura. Happy thanksgiving. Thank you. We just heard from Ron Brownstein about this ominous feeling people have. You know the president very well. Were told hes not traveling to places like maralago for thanksgiving because he says he wants to get things done. You heard about ron talking about him being awol. What do you think he is planning to accomplish or get done over the next 57 days . Listen, i more or less agree with everything ron and john were saying. Just remember from the president s lens looking through his prism, hes far from awol. Hes going to be diligently focused on his selfinterests over the next 55 days and basically what will that mean . It will mean pardons, it will mean lining himself up for speaking events, media activity. A whole host of things he will be doing. What he wont be doing is caring about the American People. I think whats astonishing to republicans is he is probably not spending a lot of time on those two senate races in georgia. So, laura, it is really about him and while he might be awol doing the interests of the American People or serving the American People, hes not awol serving himself, trust me on that. Hes extremely focused on whats in it for him for the next month, month and a half, two months. Selfishness is something you dont want in aim public servant. It seems to be anttithitical. Michael flynn is one person hes thinking of pardoning. Who else might be on that list . There is selfinterested motivation. Who else might be on that list to round that out along with flynn . Again, as john said, anybody that has interest or information related to the president , the commutation of a roger stone sentence was an example of that. Obviously his family members would be open game. I certainly think hes going to pardon himself. He has no down side to pardoning himself. The worst thing that can happen is that its challenged, it goes up to the Supreme Court, its somehow revoked, but it may not be revoked. So if you think about the optionality about that, he puts the chips on the table f. It doesnt work, big deal. If it works, its transformational for him. And it also is transformational for the country. He may need a constitutional amendment to set in place powers to restrict the president on a Going Forward basis. I dont see why he would stop at just pardoning friends or family members. I think pardoning himself has got to be on the table, laura. Youve got to think about this stuff the way President Trump thinks about it. Well, you know, im sure hes probably going to try but, you know, the idea if at first you dont succeed, having a go at the Supreme Court and knocking on their chambers might not be the most successful strategy. Youre right he has the novelty aspect involved there. Thinking of trying to make your way up. The worst thing to happen for litigation or appeals, the Trump Campaign has sent, as you know, more than a dozen fundraising emails since the gsa even ascertained bidens win last night, more than a dozen. Is that why hes really still pretending the election isnt over, so he can keep raising these funds . Yes, but i also think theres a griever vows thing there and theres a conspiratorial thing there. Hes literally like a duraflame log for the fires of conspiracy. He knows a lot of his supporters are into this whole conspiracy nonsense. Hes figuring out a way he can take that with him outside of the white house. He said in 20 16, well, you know, if i lose im going to tell everybody the election was rigged and theres no way for a guy like me to win, and then of course he won. Now hes taking that sort of branding and repurposing it in 2020. Remember, when he goes out there, for some reason even though he was a billionaires kid or a half a billionaires kid, he grew up with a silver spoon, he has played the victim for the last 40 years of his life. Hes played it pretty well. Hes got a group of people that will follow him around and chant, yeah, youre the victim, so are we. Those people unfortunately fall into the traps of conspiracy which is the reason why hes not conceding, laura. This is all part of the marketing gestalt. Hes figured 25, 30 Million People follow him around. Thats a potential market. You call him a duraflame log as long as he doesnt blow up the government is flame retart dent. Fingers crossed. Thank you, anthony scaramucci. I appreciate it. Im crossing my fingers thinking about that flame retardant government and being thankful for that. We know millions of people this thanksgiving weekend are traveling against cdc advice. Is there any way to convince americans to do what needs to be done . 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Things are bad now and then when you add in the anticipated crush of people going ahead with thanksgiving plans anyway. Can you help me . Make one lastditch effort here tonight to talk people into staying home who might be thinking about hitting the roads even as early as tomorrow. Yeah, theres a tremendous amount of virus out all throughout the country, and now is not the time to get sick. Its not the time to get sick because, first of all, our hospitals are filling rapidly so theres not a lot of room in hospitals. Were really straining our capacity to care for critically ill people, and why would you want to get sick when the vaccine is right around the corner. Nows the time to hunker down because help is really on the way. For the first time in the last year i really believe that in a couple of months things are really going to start to change in this country, and as we get into spring and summer, its going to start to feel more like normal. I think were going to baseball games this summer. So stay safe now so we can do that. All the hard work we put in throughout this awful year will pay off. So just sit tight, stay home. There is that concern that people have now that you have this joy of the prospect of vaccines out there, but the idea of a vaccine versus actually vaccinating you and having that fourweek window between the first half, second dose. People cant get lax now. You have biden and his team finally having access to critical information on covid. He said tonight that he hopes that vaccinations can even begin before he takes office, but will they be in time to stop this situation we have right now from becoming even more catastrophic . Is the existence of a vaccine enough . No, which is why we have to mask up and hunker down. So there are over 2,000 deaths today as you said. The most since the peak in the spring during the first wave. But remember that deaths are a lagging indicator. So they lag initial infections by about two to three weeks. Two to three weeks ago we were just approaching about 100,000 cases per day. So what that means is that two to three weeks from now that mortality rate that, again, was about 2,000 cases now per day will be over 3,000 People Per Day. 3,000 People Per Day dying. Thats shocking. Yeah. And maybe even getting closer to 4,000. So now is not the time to go running around the country. As we said last night, im really worried that people are going to inadvertently hurt people that they really love, the most vulnerable in their families. If you havent really, you know, left your home, stay home. Do a zoom thanksgiving this year. Well, you know, people are traveling still and theyre traveling in droves as youve seen for thanksgiving. Weve seen massive lines of people who are waiting to get tested for the virus but getting tested and still masking up, doing all the things theyre talking about, getting tested doesnt mean you cant get the virus while youre traveling. Are you worried this is not considered by many people who are talking about what it takes to get to the destination and exposure and vulnerability along the way . I am. A test is just a snapshot. So a test discloses whether at this moment, you know, the pcr can detect some viral rna. It doesnt mean that maybe you were infected yesterday and theres just not enough virus in your system to be detected by our current testing asperatus. It doesnt mean you wont get infected tomorrow on your way to your destination. If you want to get tested, i think testing is great. I encourage asymptomatic people to get tested. Thats how you put the virus down, by testing more. Its not a passport that gets you safely to home that protects the people you love. Thats not good enough. Unless youve been in quarantine for ten days. If you have been in quarantine for ten days, you can get home without the use of public transportation, have at it. Otherwise, its not enough. Dr. Reiner, thank you. Prevention is, indeed, better than cure. Thank you for your time. I do have breaking news tonight. Cnn is learning that the president is expected to appear with attorney Rudy Giuliani in pennsylvania, yes, where republican state lawmakers are holding a hearing on allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. That according to two sources 235 familiar with the plans. Joining me on the phone to discuss is cnns jeremy diamond. What can you tell me about what were hearing . Reporter thats right, laura. Two sources are telling me the president is expecting to join his attorney Rudy Giuliani tomorrow. Hes expected to be addressing a group of Senate Republican lawmakers in that state. State lawmakers just afternoon tomorrow in gettysburg, pennsylvania. Now im learning the president is expected to join giuliani for this trip. Obviously intends to show that he is certainly not conceding this election, that he is still going to be pursuing and trying to trump up the baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud in key battleground states including the state of pennsylvania. This trip is being handled as an unplanned, unannounced movement and, therefore, is not appearing on the president s public schedule. One source also cautioned me that because its an unplanned, what we call at the white house an off the record movement, that the plans could change. That it could potentially be canceled. As of now that is the plan, for the president to leave the washington, d. C. Area, for the first time in three weeks since election day and to do so alongside his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, whos been leading the charge in trying to spread these conspiracy theories and baseless allegations about fraud and the 2020 election. Is he doing in in relationship to the recent ruling that there is no there there or is he doing this with different members of the legislature . Reporter this is going to be a meeting of the pennsylvania majority committee. Republican state senators meeting. Its certainly not official legislative business but they are expected to have some witnesses who, according to the Trump Campaign, have filed affidavits attesting to Election Fraud in the 2020 election. We know based on the pattern of these affidavits that theyve been bringing forward, they have been filled with hearsay. Hearsay is hearsay according to one judge. So certainly you can expect to hear a lot of unfounded allegations continue to be pushed. Obviously this is the president making every attempt that he can to continue to try and trump up these charges, excuse the pun, about the 2020 election being rigged even though he is not standing in the way of this transition proceeding as it relates to the Biden Administration based on the gsa ascertaining this. Well, jeremy diamond, thank you for your reporting. Im going to be curious if this meeting is under oath. It will make a difference Going Forward. Thank you. Stay with us. More on our breaking news. We have congresswoman Sheila Jackson lee reacting right after this. Did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn before it begins . Prilosec otc uses a unique delayedrelease formula that works to turn down acid production, blocking heartburn at the source. With just one pill a day, you get 24hour heartburn protection. Take the prilosec otc twoweek challenge. And see the difference for yourself. Prilosec otc, 1 pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. More on our breaking news tonight. I want to turn to democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson lee. Shes on the judiciary committee. Thank you for being here. I want to get your reaction to President Trump expected to join Rudy Giuliani in pennsylvania tomorrow for whats being called a hearing on these fraud allegations. Theres no evidence. Is he going to admit that its over any time soon . Well, laura, the nation is in a health care crisis. We dont know if President Trump has even taken his National Security briefings and he is now trumping off to pennsylvania where federal courts there or a federal court has indicated that the lawsuits are frivolous and as well the General Services administration has ascertained president elect biden and Vice President elect kamala as the apparent winners and they are beginning to get briefings, National Intelligence briefings and also thank goodness theyre going to be briefed on covid19. I frankly believe this is an unfortunate and sad distraction. People are losing their lives but as well the National Security is in the hands of the president of the United States, the commander in chief. Youd like to think that is something he or she would be focused on, and in this instance it seems President Trump is only focused on his own hurt feelings. I feel for his hurt feelings. He has a right to participate in the legal process, but i frankly am saddened that we are continuing this somewhat charade that is going on and its really hurting the American People. So as a lawyer, he has a right to go into court. And as i have often seen, judges render decisions against a particular lawyers position, then those judges and those courts can continue to render decisions against the trump lit gators and lawyers who are bringing frivolous matters. America has to go on because america has a lot to do. One of those things, come woman, as you know, youre the chair on the Coronavirus Task force. Youre the chair. You have a Record Number of americans being hospitalized. Youre the chair of the Coronavirus Task force. What is congress doing to make sure that these hospitals who are already stretched so thin will be able to receive and care for patients and even in your own state of texas the numbers are soaring, unfortunately, as they are across the country. What is congress doing to try to alleviate the american anxiety people are feeling when they have the president gala vabting on the charades as you talk about . Well, laura, first of all 2, 000 people plus died today. 85,000 plus hospitalizations. We know that were in very serious times. 144,000 children are infected. I know that the leadership of the house of representatives with leader Speaker Pelosi are ingauged in negotiations as they were last week before we left for the thanksgiving recess. We know that we must come to grips with this in the next coming days and we will be in washington in the next days, this coming week. Frankly, well negotiate with the president s negotiators. The secretary of the treasury should continue sitting down at the table. We need leader mcconnell to step away from partisanship and to begin to look at the pain the American People are facing. We have a 2. 2 trillion bill that will provide for covid19 response with testing, with ppp that means Small Business loans as well as help for restaurants under 20 million and, yes, the dollars our families will need. 1200 per family, 500 and 6000 per dependent. We need the secretary of the treasury not ending the other assets or products that are in need for our markets. The market went up 30 points because of the movement of Vice President biden, president elect, and the decisions that he made with his cabinet. We look forward to passing this legislation, generating these dollars to our local cities, counties, states and getting the American People what they need to get into 2021 as this vaccine is going to be provided to the larger number of americans in 2021. Thats what were going to be working on. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson lee. America is counting that you can. Thank you. Well be right back. Thank you. Happy thanksgiving to you. Thank you. These folks dont have time to go to the post office they use stamps. Com all the services of the post office only cheaper get a 4week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps. Com tv and never go to the post office again. I got it all from you im always pushing through i know well make it to the finish line i know youre waiting on the other side im like you ondemand glucose monitoring. Because theyre always on. Another lifechanging technology from abbott. So you dont wait for life. You live it. So the president has said he has the absolute right to pardon himself, but does he have a pardon list . In the final 57 days of his term, is there a list thats actually there . Joining me now, john dean. Former white House Counsel for president nixon, the right man for the job today, and the author of authoritarian nightmare, trump and his followers. John. Good to see you. Its been a while. Im glad youre here. You have three sources now that tell cnn there are ongoing discussions in the white house about President Trump pardoning michael flynn. Lets remember, he admitted to lying to the fbi, so what would this pardon signify to you . It doesnt surprise me. Hes got pardons on his mind. He just did the turkey, which he treated with great official authority, so he might line up some other turkeys, and i think inappropriate. I think he will pardon a number of people, laura, between now and his departure. Michael flynn is somebody whos been on his list a long time. That reporting sounds pretty valid. I suspect there are others hes thinking about. These are people he somehow feels either could threaten him or he feels very indebted to. One of the biggest questions out there is will the president try and pardon himself . Can he do it . Its never been tried before. What do you think . Well, he has been very bold in saying he thinks he has that power. Ive read the scholarship on both sides. No court has ever ruled on it. The only court that really can make that decision is the u. S. Supreme court. Its never been before them. There are good arguments on both sides. The department of justice says a president cannot pardon himself because he cannot be a judge in his own case. The others say the language is so broad in the constitution theres no restriction on the president. You can read it either way. Until a Court Decides it, we wont know the answer. Here we are, yet again, four years in a row in what we call unchartered territory. Po would have thunk it. I appreciate it. Thanks, laura. Theres the Extremist Group the president once told to stand back and stand by. Do you ever wonder why someone would join the proud boys and once in, whats it like . Cnn goes inside the group next. Unlike ordinary memory supplements neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. Memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. Oo if not, maybe its not the right fit. Does it include dental and vision coverage . Well, if not, maybe its not the right fit. How about hearing aid, glasses, and even telemedicine, at no additional cost . Maybe theres a better fit for you. Call healthmarkets now, or visit healthmarkets. Com for your free fitscore. They can instantly compare thousands of medicare plans with all these benefits and more, including plans that may let you keep your doctor and save money. Healthmarkets doesnt just work for one insurance company. 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He lived a year and a half as a proud boy near portland. He didnt hold a title but he was at a lot of political protests and had a big presence online. He said he quit. The proud boys say he was kicked out. Its too much like a nationwide criminal gang is where they were headed towards. I didnt want any part of that. This is for proud boys and only proud boys. We need more political activists, more, not less. Russell grew up around portland. Hes jewish and voted for obama twice before voting for trump twice. He is bull headed, determined, takes a lot of criticism. I like his political policies. I got involved doing activism because of Trump Supporters getting attacked and i wanted to stand up to that and say, thats not what we do in america. Reporter but you werent just a trump supporter, you got involved with the proud boys. How did that happen . We were holding a free speech rally in portland ald and all of a sudden fights were breaking out. All of a sudden these guys came marching across the field. It looked like something from a brave heart movie. I thought about it, okay, it will be fun. Ill wear a goofy little shirt and look like a bowling team. They were known more for street fights than vague ideology. They celebrated when President Trump mentioned them in a president ial debate. Proud boys, stand back and stand by. Ill tell you what. Ill tell you what. Somebody has to do something about antifa and the left. Do you think the proud boys felt encouraged by President Trump, like that he had their back . Yeah. Yeah. Because everybody wants to feel special. Reporter unlike many far right groups that emerged around the same time, the proud boys dont say theyre trying to defend the white race, they say its the western civilization. I dont perceive them as racists. There might be some miss sa soj nists, some might be because of racism. They want to have Drinking Partners and they want to fight a gang and fight antifa and hurt people that they dont like and feel justified. The chairman said currently theres no criminal activity happening in the proud boys. Russell left the group but he hasnt left the mindset. He still shows up at some rallies. While he criticizes the proud boys, he defends most of what he did with the group as either a joke or justified. Im going to shoot you in your chest or your head. Antifa posts online. They say to raise the social cost of being a fascist. In 2018 they posted that and reposted his videos. I nearly ran you over with a car and i dont feel bad about it one bit. Youre lucky i didnt kill you. The city posted this . Ive never seen that one. Im glad they posted that one. You are not going to survive. I will survive and take my chances in court. Reporter they do sound like violent threats. They are violent threats and its a good reason. Reporter why . We were going to have a pro jesus march and antifa said they were going to come and start throwing urine and feces on us. That was my way saying, you do that, thats a threat. I made the threat so they wouldnt come out. They told cnn they did not threaten to throw poop at the march. At the million maga march in washington, d. C. , after trump lost the election proud boys got into fights. Videos of the violence circulated. Hitting a woman. From behind. She didnt even see it coming. Reporter how is that proud masculine knit at this right there. Thats as low as it gets. Yeah. Reporter do you feel like youre part of this that brought us to this point . That brought us to it . Reporter propaganda. Honestly, i had a role in it. Reporter what do you see people make the argument it was never really a joke, joke is a cover for what you actually want to do. I dont think it was ever made to be a street gang, it kind of morphed into that. 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