Trumps 47. 4 , biden has 304 tlorl votes to trumps 232. That is a score trump called a landslide when he was on the right end of it. Today, president elect biden is meeting with his transition advisers and preparing to take office on january 20th. The team is forced to reach out on their own to governors and Health Experts and private sector to prepare since the Trump Administration is refusing to begin the transmission process. Trump is set to speak any minute from the rose garden. These will be the residents first public remarks since president elect biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election almost a full week ago. Trump has, so far, refused to acknowledge his electoral loss in any way at all, though the writing has been on the wall for quite sometime now. More news of finality in recent hours with pennsylvania announcing bidens margin of victory is way too big to trigger an automatic recount. A law firm representing the Trump Campaign in pennsylvania has withdrawn representation. A judge in michigan rejected a republican lawsuit to toss out votes in detroit. The trump dropped its lawsuit in arizona. The Trump Campaign shut off its voter fraud hotline. Yet, President Trump and his advisers are still spewing lies about Homeland Security officials are calling the most secure election in American History. Today, trade adviser Peter Navarro and Kayleigh Mcenany are the latest to spread this big lie saying the president not the only one in the building willing to accept the results of the democratic process. President trump will definitely attend the inauguration . I think the president will attend his own inauguration. He would have to be there, in fact. We are moving forward here at the white house under the assumption there will be a second trump term. Now is it delusion . Is it dishonesty . Frankly, it doesnt really matter the motivation any more. All that it matters its false and destructive. A Senior Administration official tells meal the trump team is discussing whether President Trump should go out and hold rallies right now. It comes as the Trump Campaigns options to try to delay this inevitable result are running out. As Cnns Kaitlan Collins reports. Reporter today, President Trump will speak in fronts of cameras for the first time in over a week for what the white house says is an update on the administrations covid19 initiative. The appearance comes as President Trump and senior government officials are still denying the results of the election, including his top trade adviser. We are moving forward here at the white house under the assumption there will be a second trump term. Reporter featuPeter Navarrot the one aide to recognize bi bidens win. It would look pretty bad if he did not attend inauguration . Look like sour grapes, wouldnt it . Well, i think the president will attend his own inauguration. He would have to be there, in fact. You really think you can turn this around . Absolutely. Reporter mcenany and pomp pam owe are ignoring that biden has won. In arizona, the lawsuit was dropped saying it wouldnt have made a difference that 200 votes were at stake and biden leads trump in the state by 11,000. The law firm representing Trumps Campaign in pennsylvania also withdrew from the long shot case today as firms carrying out trumps legal challenges are now coming under public pressure. Even the president s own department of Homeland Security is rejecting his claim this election was rigged. Security Officials Say the 2020 race was actually the most secure election in American History and there is no evidence that any Voting System deleted or lost votes changed votes or was in any way compromised. Despite all of that, trump has refused to concede the race as his allies are pushing him to do that including Geraldo Rivera of fox news saying he spoke to the president today. He told me he was a realist and do the right thing. Every impression he gave me, harris, if the process went against him and he was satisfied that every vote legitimate vote had been counted and every legitimate vote had been thrown out that he would follow the of the constitution. I got no impression that he was, you know, plauapplauding the overthrow of the elected government. Reporter on top of all that, jake, we have been reporting the president is potentially on the verge of firing the cia director. We have learned today that is going on on whether or not to terminate have been happening, an intelligence briefing was held at the white house this afternoon with President Trump, the director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe and other Senior Intelligence officials but gene a haspel was not invited to that briefing. It is not mandatory for her to be there but not a good sign whether she is in this job much longer. This comes as the president is about to be here at the rose garden. Only the second time he has addressed reporters since he lost the election to joe biden and has not taken questions from reporters so we will see if he does that today. The Trump Administration continues to block the Biden Harris Team to federal agencies and funds. Ron klain says the delayed transition could hamper the Coronavirus Vaccine preparations as cnns jessica dean now reports. Reporter president elect joe biden spendi ining today at his delaware beach house meeting with transition advisers taking what advisers describe as his notorious notoriously deliberative approach. During a virtual briefing, bidens Transition Team offering assurances that the transition process is moving ahead as they continue to wait for the General Services administration to trigger the official transition process. We are not interested in having a food fight with the gsa administrator or anyone really. We just want to get access to intelligence information to threat assessments, to the ongoing work on covid so we can prepare to govern. Reporter the team confirmed they have been in contact with specific representatives from a number of agencies. We have been in regular contact with federal career officials who are tasked with administering transition who are nonpartisan career experts on transitions, including at gsa. Aides say biden has contenders in mind for nearly all of the cabinet positions but they are trying to be deliberate, as one former senior obama official advising the biden transition told cnn, quote, there is no room for any embarrassments. In the meantime, in his first interview since biden named him chief of staff, ron klain said thursday night biden will issue a National Mask mandate on his first day in office and install a white house covid coordinator. He will have a covid coordinator who works in the white house who has direct access to him and will be briefing him daily and, otherwise, as needed on the response to the covid crisis. Reporter klain also confirmed biden has not spoken with Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell who has refused to publicly acknowledge biden as president elect. There will a time and place for joe biden and senator mcconnell to talk. Reporter we are learning from new reporting from our colleagues that the biden team is reaching out to former pentagon officials who worked under james mattis to get the lay of the land from them. They are locked out from talking to any Current Pentagon official so they figured former was the next best thing. We are told they are just looking for information here. Jessica dean in wilmington, thank you. To discuss this is congresswoman jackie spears who heads the intelligence committee. Congrats to your reelection, congresswoman. Thank you, jake. President trump is about to speak for the First Time Since president elect joe biden was declared the winner of the election. What would you like to hear from the outgoing president . I would like the outgoing president to be president ial, to concede the election, to allow the transition to move forward. Its until the best interest of the American People. Our National Security is at risk the longer he pursues this fantasy that he is engaged in about trying to overturn the election results. A few minutes ago, he tweeted part of this tin foil hat Conspiracy Theory that the Election Software somehow is responsible for why he didnt win. Its been debunked by no less than his own Cyber Security czar at the department of Homeland Security. So its not just that he is not going to be president ial in all likelihood, its that he is spreading this misinformation to tens of millions of his followers. Well, its true. And what we do know what happened in the end when you have 5 million more votes than president elect biden has received, no way he is gcket able to overcome that kind of a margin. When jill stein in wisconsin called for a recount when then president elect trump had 23,000 votes and we now have biden having 20,000 votes when she called for a recount only 131 votes that changed hands. Unfortunately he is on poor loser. What we know is 30 odd days that transpired before bush was called the victor in 2000 was somewhat responsible for the fact it took six months for him to get the clearances on his staff and actually contributed to our lack of ability to anticipate 9 11. Thats what the 9 11 commission said. The 9 11 Commission Report found the delayed transition between president clinton and president george w. Bush hampered to put them in place before the 9 11 attacks. Are you worried that Something Like that could happen again . Well, im worried about that. Im worried about the fact that our embassy in iraq attacked numerous times and diplomats are at risk and concerned about the diplomats in cuba and elsewhere who have had brain damage of some sort that we have not been able to ascertain what caused it or who was responsible for it, although we have some speculation. All of those are going on around the world and our adversaries looking at this circus going on here in the United States. I can assure you that putin is getting the last laugh mehere because this is precisely what he wants to see happen. Have you talked to your colleagues who do not acknowledge the election . Its short list of officials in washington who acknowledged what happened last unique, the idea that president elect is president elect biden. Congressman conway and kensinger have. Have you asked any what is going on . This isnt good for the country. No, i havent, jake, and that is probably a good idea. I think ill get on the phone later today and try to get a sense. What ill probably here from them they realize that joe biden is now the president elect but we want to give the president more room to come to the grips he has lost. This is treating the presidency like youve got a Mental Health issue at stake here and that we have got to be careful with this fragile ego that is in the white house. Its time for the president to put his big man pants on and inspect the fact that he has lost. Ive said its like they are coddling a 5yearold whose pet turtle tied. A great number of representatives who wont acknowledge the president elects election. What do you think it will take to get that to happen to president elect biden is uptospeed so he can protect the country when he takes office a january 20th . Senator langford, who i served with in the house, has said that if it didnt happen on friday, he would do something. He then somehow recanted it a little bit. That is the fear that so many of these republican senators have. Up with, because they have got two senate seats that are up in georgia in january and they want President Trump to be able to rally the forces there. The other is they are always concerned about their own skin. Its whether or not the president will come out and attack them as an outing president. He still will have 70 Million People that he will try to rally around him and others. Its all about selfpreservation. Meanwhile, we have a country at risk here and we owe our allegiance to the constitution, not to President Trump who has lost the election. Not no mention, of course, the coronavirus pandemic which is getting worse every day. Thank you for your time. We are waiting for President Trump to come out in the rose garden and speak at any moment. His first public remarks since the election was called for joe biden by every major media organization. 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That number expected to rise as cnns erica hill reports. Reporter cases were growing this fall people were saying the death rate is low and hospitalizations arent really growing. Now we are there. We were predictably there. Reporter records set and shattered at a record pace. Our Health Care Heroes have fought valiantly day after day, but we have no reserves. Reporter more than 67,000 americans hospitalized with covid on thursday, topping the previous days high again. As the country added a record 153,000 new cases and the daily average of new cases jumped 32 in just one week. Our baseline of infections all along has never gun down to a level that would allow you to be easily controllable when you get cases that soar up. Reporter a model predicts we could see 439,000 lives lost by marchiz march 1st. There is still resistance and denial. People come in and refuse to wear masks and create a scene that we have to call the police. Reporter in south dakota, to wear a mask, vetoing the mandate. My vote on this is no and that item fails 54. Reporter the nations lars indoor water park just opened outside of austin one day after texas reached a total of 1 million coronavirus cases. Every single american citizen needs to step up and take personal responsibility. Reporter new york limiting gatherings and cutting back hours at gyms and restaurants starting today. Mayor bill de blasio schools could close monday if the positive iterate in the city hits 3 . There is still a chance to do something to avert that. Reporter chicagoss effect on monday morning and michigan offering this. The winter holidays simply cannot be the same this year. Reporter as dr. Fauci reminds us to mask up everywhere. If youre indoors and gathering with people, even if its a relatively small group, to the extend possible, keep the mask on even if you are indoors. Reporter the list of states announcing rollbacks or new restrictions is growing. Oregon, idaho and new mexico. The governor in new york is meeting with his counterparts in six neighboring states this weekend to discuss possible coordination of more new measures. Erica hill, thank you. Cnns chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta is joining us. We expect the president to come out to talk about the new vaccine and operation warp speed so i apologize ahead of time if i have to cut you off. While we are waiting what do you want him to say and what are you expecting him to say . Those may be two Different Things entirely. Im sure they are. I think what i would hope he would say is, you know, there is actually things worth celebrating right now with regard to this vaccine. There is still a lot of data we have to look at. If you look at the initial sort of what we have heard about the Pfizer Vaccine being 90 effective in terms of covid19, that is a pretty remarkable number. The fda said they would accept 50 . The process is moving along very, very quickly. I know he is upset because he says the results were held until after the election. Science doesnt follow a particular timetable but it is still worth celebrating. We are hearing by the end of this month, perhaps they would a i ply for an emergency use authorization and that may take a few weeks to get that, but by the end of the year, jake, we may be putting shots in arms for a vaccine for a disease we didnt know about a year earlier. It is worth celebrating. But that is what i would hope he would say but i think, unfortunately, you know, there is grievances there. He wishes it could have gone faster. He should celebrate that operation warp speed has done as good as it has so far. He is pushing this idea and no evidence for it at all that the announcement was delayed after the election. You asked the director of pfizer about that. They do have a deal with the Trump Administration with the federal government to manufacture and distribute the vaccine which a lot of experts think probably helped encourage and speed up the process. So he could take a victory lap of sorts. I mean, it is an achievement of his Trump Administration. Hold on. Lets go live to the rose garden where President Trump is about to make his first public remarks since losing the athletics. Administration has nishlted the single greatest mobilization in u. S. History Pioneering Development and manufacturing therapies and vaccines in record time. Numbers like nobody has seen before. No medical breakthrough of this scope and magnitude has ever been achieved this rapidly, this quickly, and we are very proud of it and i had tremendous help from the military, generals, admirals and many of the great people at the white house. Operation warp speed is unequalled and unrivaled anywhere in the world and leaders of the other countries have called me to congratulate us on what we have been able to do and we have helped many countries with the ventilators and problems they were having and i would like to congratulated everyone involved in this incredible effort. Because of operation warp speed, pfizer announced on monday that its china virus vaccine is more than 90 effective. This far exceeds any and all expectations nobody thought they would get to that level. We have others coming we think equal level meaner if that is possible. In july, my administration reached an agreement with pfizer to provide 1. 95 billion dollars to support the mass manufacturing and distribution of 100 million doses with the option to purchase a total of 600 million doses shortly thereafter. Our investment will make it possible for the vaccine to be provided by pfizer free of charge. Pfizer said it wasnt part of warp speed but that turned out to be an unfortunate misrepresentation. They are part. That is why we gave them the 1. 95 billion dollars and it was an unfortunate mistake they made when they said that. We will work to secure an emergency use authorization which should be coming down extremely soon and my administration will then coordinate the distribution of the vaccine and it will be approved, i think again very quickly, we hope. The average Development Time line for the vaccine, including clinical tests and manufacturing can take eight to 12 years. Through operation warp speed we are doing it in less than one year. If you had a Different Administration with different people, what we have done would have taken, in my opinion, three, four, five years and it would have been in the fda forever. This is five times faster than the fastest prior Vaccine Development in history. Five times faster. Say it again. Five times faster. Nobody can believe it, actually. Three other vaccines are also in the final stages of trial and they will arrive within a few weeks and they will also be mass produced and the delivery will be very rapid. We are ready to go. The vaccine will be distributed to front line workers, the elderly and highrisk americans immediately. It will be very a matter of weeks. Get out very much ahead of schedule. Any schedule that i said were going to be far ahead of that. We know that this virus primary targets older populations and those with underline Health Conditions while over 99. 98 of those under the age of 50 make a full and quick recovery. By giving the vaccine to highrisk individuals right away we will dramatically reduce hospitalizations and deaths. Case levels are high but a lot of the case levels are high because of the fact that we have the best Testing Program anywhere in the world. We have developed the most and the best tests and we test far more than any other country, so it shows obviously more cases. By vaccinating the elderly and high risk we will effectively end this phase of the pandemic and allow seniors to reclaim their golden years of their lives which is so incredible. Its about time that they can have those golden years. Again, this process is starting right away. Millions of doses will soon be going out the door. They are already waiting for that final approval. As soon as april, the vaccine will be available to the entire general population with the exception of places like new york state where, for political reasons, the governor decided i dont think its good politically. I think its very bad from a health standpoint, but he wants to take his time on the vaccine. He doesnt trust where the vaccine is coming from. These are coming from the greatest companies anywhere in the world, greatest labs in the world but he doesnt trust the fact its this white house, this administration. So we wont be delivering it to new york until we have authorization to do so and that pains me to say that. This is a very successful, amazing vaccine at 90 and more, but so the Governor Cuomo will have to let us know when he is ready for it. Otherwise, we cant be delivering it to a state that wont be giving it to its people immediately. And i know the people of new york very well. I know they want it so the governor will let us know when he is ready. Hes had some very bad editorials recently about this statement and what has happened with respect to Nursing Homes and his handling of Nursing Homes and i hope he doesnt handle this as balancdly as he handled the Nursing Homes but we are ready to provide it as soon as they let us know that they will actually use it. Again, its a very safe and a great vaccine. Already, we have among the lowest case fatality rates our country anywhere in the world, the entire world and we have performed significantly better than our peer countries. As far as therapeutics are concerned, my Administration Made critical investments in therapies that have helped reduce the mortality rate by 85 . That to me one of the most exciting things. Its incredible some of the antibody vaccines and others that have come out and have really helped people. 85 . Last month the fda. Approved remdesivir and we have enough to treat 850,000 patients. My administration finalized an agreement with eli lilly to purchase the first doses of their antibody therapy which shows amazing results. This treatment will be available completely free of cost to patients. 5,000 units have already been shipped and many more going out the door as we speak. We also reached an agreement with as ttrazeneca for their antibody treatment and will have additional treatments in the near future. Tremendous promise, but remember the 85 number. That is an incredible number but we have some tremendously promising drugs online and ready to come out. We have ensured that our front line workers have all of the tools they need. My administration invoked the defense production act and related authorities over 100 times and have made a historic investment into our industrial base. All states that requested ppe from the federal government have received the ppe almost immediately upon request. Every american who needed a ventilator has had access to a ventilator. Think of that. Very complicated piece of equipment, very expensive. And we havent had one person in this whole country that has requested or needed a ventilator that hasnt had it. Every single request has been immediately filled. So that was something. A great job. Now we are helping the rest of all the world with a ventilator because its a hard thing. We are producing thousands of ventilators a month. The federal government is 22,000 beds immediately available for states and jurisdictions that need additional capacity. But we think that its going to start going down possibly very quickly. We will see what happens but with the vaccine, youll see numbers going down within a matter of months and it will go down we rapidly. We continue to combat the virus our economy is rebounding far beyond any expectations. I see the stock market is up almost 400 points today again and its ready to break the alltime record. Our jobs records are incredible. The job numbers are incredible. And the last six months, we have created over 13 million jobs and slashed the Unemployment Rate by more than half. Last quarter, we witnessed the fastest Economic Growth ever recorded in the history of our country. 33. 1 . Its a number that is more than double our highest that was . 1952 and more than doubled it. The United States experienced the smallest Economic Contraction and recovery of any western nation. We went down less and went up more which is quite a combination of facts. While healthy americans have gone back to work and to school, we continue to spare no expense to protect the elderly and the vulnerable. According to some estimates, a National Lockdown cost 50 billion a day and hundreds of thousands of jobs every single day. Ideally we i will not go. This administration will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully, the whatever happens in the future, who knows, which administration will be, i guess time will tell, but i can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown. There wont be necessity. Lockdowns cost lives and they cost a lot of problems to cure. You got to remember, cannot be worse than the problem, itself. Ive said it many times. And when you look at what happens during a lockdown, i say it very loudly. Its horrible what happens with drugs, alcohol, depression, loss of jobs, business closures. Its a terrible thing. So this administration will not go under any circumstances will not go to a lockdown but very vigilant and careful. We understand the disease. Its a complicated disease but we understand it very well. We ask all americans to remain vigilant, especially as the weather gets colder and it becomes more difficult to go outside and to have outside gatherings. And with that, i want to ask some very talented people to come up and say a few words. General perna and dr. Slouey have been incredible. The general is Getting Started right now but what we dont know and what people dont know, he started putting this all together six months ago and youll see some real action. General, maybe youll start it off . Then, doctor, youll go right after that. Thank you very much. Then we will finish it off with mike pence. Okay . Thank you. Please. Thank you. Sure. Thank you, mr. President. Hi, everybody. So operation warp speeds mission is to enable and accelerate the development of vaccines and therapeutic to have control the covid19 pandemic and save lives. On may 15th, almost six months ago to the day, we stated the goal of the operation which was to have vaccines and therapeutics available and approved for using the u. S. Population by the end of the year 2020. We said then that while very challenging, the goal was credible and, therefore, was worth trying with our best to achieve it. I think we can say significant progress has been made and while we are not there yet, we are close to the objective. Let me share with you some facts. If i look at the vaccine side, we selected the portfolio of six vaccines using three different platform technologies and we elected to have two vaccines from each platform. First platform what is called messager rna and two vaccines using that platform where in the portfolio, one by pfizer and one by moderna. The second platform is using what is called live vectors and one from j j and one from astrazeneca in connection with oxford university. The third platform was a platform with one vaccine from the Biotech Company in the u. S. Called novavax and another from two other companies. These are in the Clinical Development stages right now and four are in phase three trials. Of the four that are in phase three trials, two have effectively completed their phase three trial. One of the two has announced on monday to, i think, information they had 90 efficacy. That was the Pfizer Vaccine. Demonstrating that vaccination is possible against covid19, that the kind of choices we have made in terms of the antigens selected was effective and made us optimistic that other vaccine may also be effective. This wednesday, moderna, the other Vaccine Company using Similar Technology announces they have achieved the number of cases in their trial to allow for first analysis and i would expect that shortly, probably next week, we may hear what i hope to be another very good information regarding another vaccine. The two other vaccines that are in phase three trial are using the live vector platform, the j j and astrazeneca vaccine have recruited a few thousands subjects in their trials. I would like to take this opportunity to invite as Many Americans as possible who would like to volunteer to participate in this Clinical Trials as that is the only way we are able to achieve a demonstration of the safety and the efficacy of these vaccines. The last two vaccines, they are planned to start their phase three trials within the next few weeks. While we are developing this vaccine we havent looked at only the development in partnership with the companies that are the sponsors for the vaccine. We also invested very significantly in the manufacturing of these vaccines in such a way as to when we have the clinical efficacy demonstration with these vaccines, we would also have vaccine to be able to immunize the u. S. Population. So the two vaccines that are completing phase three trial are likely to be filing their files with the fda for potentially emergency use authorization within the next few weeks. Hopefully, have approved they could be used for imsayinmuniza in september. We expect to have that in the u. S. Pop to immunize 20,000 in december and another 25 to 30 million per month on ongoing basis from thereon. February or march if more vaccines approved sump as the live vector vaccine, we may be able immunization per month. We looked at also therapeutics. And we have worked with a number of Companies Developing antibodies, in particular, that are able to neutralize the virus. As mr. President said, we have announced partnerships with eli lilly and regeneron and ast astrazene astrazeneca. To treat patients infected and at risk of hospitalization. The antibodies have been filed for emergency use authorization which is currently under review but potentially reaching approval within the next few weeks. Finally, astra send as to prevee acquisition of covid19 disease in very frail subjects or in very high risk subjects as a protective alternative to a vaccine. So potentially two vaccines and two therapeutics may be granted in emergency use authorization before the end of this year. I think its a remarkable achievement within a period of six to seven months. It is important to note that this progress has been achieved without any political inferen interference, i said it many times, and every step is being judged by independent expert bodies. Whether its when the fda grants the green light to go into Clinical Trials or whether the data safety boards review the safety of the studies on an ongoing basis and sometime put them on hold as im sure we have witnessed with the astrazeneca vaccine, for instance. And the same data safety monitoring boards are the independent boards of experts that analyze the efficacy of the vaccines and the safety of the vaccines and tell the companies whether they should progress with the filing of an emergency use authorization or not. So its not the companies. Its not operation warp speed. Its not the it is independent experts that assess the safety and efficacy of the vaccines that are being tested. When the fda will review these vaccines and these therapeutics, they will also have the advice, public advice from boards, one of them is the Advisory Board to the fda for vaccine reviews, after review of the data transparentally and available to everyone to look in to before the fda then make its decision to either authorize a vaccine or not. On that basis, i personally feel very comfortable to say that the vaccines and the therapeutics that we have had developed an accelerated will be judge independe independently and if approved should be used by all in the population. I think it is the cornerstone among the other measures we have to take to control this pandemic. I will now pass to my coleader who will tell you more about the support that the operation has provided to manufacturing of the vaccine and to their distribution. Thank you very much. Mr. President , thank you for allowing me to continue service of our great nation as the coleader with dr. Slaoui on this mission. Let me start by emphasizing for me what is operation warp speed about . It is about saving lives and it is a perk leann task that the president put us on many months ago and as the doctor just laid out, we are making steady progress and we are ready to execute. Through the whole american approach we have leveraged the best of nation in federal government, local states, industry and academia to demand the capacity and capability to achieve our mission. It has been powerful. We have capitalized on the best contracting local gistics youve been listening to President Trump and officials working on the Successful Operation warp speed. They were speaking in the rose garden. The president discussing how a Coronavirus Vaccine will soon be approved. And available to most americans as soon as april. Obviously we hope that that is true. He did not concede his election loss saying, quote, time will tell which administration will be in control come january. The news flash, of course, is that the Biden Harris Administration will be in control in january whether or not President Trump wants to acknowledge that reality. Lets discuss this important vaccine news. Sanjay, let me bring you back. You heard President Trump touting war speed and taking credit for what they have done. As we have discussed many times, there have been a ton of failures of the Trump Administration to address this pandemic, but this is one of the successes. Yeah. This is one of the bright spots. You know, i think dr. Sloaui who is adviser for operation war speed laid it out they brought me in six months ago and by the of the year is likely and say not that they will get authorized but likely two vaccines authorized by the end of the year. I dont know if you caught that, pfizers and modernas. Both he thinks. And also two antibody therapies authorized by the end of the year. The eli lilly one is already authorized. That is worth celebrating. The context for this is that vaccines can take decades sometimes to make and even after the application goes in for an emergency use authorization, that can take months. December of 2019, ebola vaccine was authorized, you may remember, that application went in six months earlier and that was considered record sort of turnaround at the time. Point is things have moved very quickly here. That is worth it is quite notable the pace of medical innovation. Dr. Slaoui about needing volunteers. What was he requesting exactly . He is pointing out that there is you know we talked about the moderna and pfizer trials but there are four other vaccine trials that are ongoing. Two of them in the process of now recruiting patients for the phase three trials so i think he said they have a few thousand. As you know, typically youre talking about tens of thousands of patients in these trials. The pfizer one i think had 43,000 patients. So they need people to volunteer for these trials and they need people who represent the demographics of people who are most likely to be affected by this disease. So people with preexisting conditions, people who are elderly. Its important to get that sort of participation so these trials move along faster. Outstanding President Trump say his administration is going to prioritize the elderly and high risk individuals when they begin to distribute the vaccine. Is that standard . Yeah, what we have heard, it was a little different than what we have he heard is that the Health Care Workers are also going to be prioritized think of it like this they are at risk, obviously, because they take care of Covid Patients but, you know, when you talk about some of these Hospital Systems now around the country what makes them particularly vulnerable or overwhelmed is you suddenly get a lot of Health Care Workers who get sick and they are out. Then, all of a sudden, that makes it more challenging to take care of patients. Health care workers very much at the top of the list as well to basically create a greater likelihood that Hospital Systems can stay stable and youre not losing Human Capital resources within these Hospital Systems. Yes, elderly people and people with preexisting conditions. I was writing down the math here. Some 20 Million People by the end of the year he said, year, slaoui said, and 25 to 30 million a month or so in terms of people who could be vaccinated after that. We know the Pfizer Vaccine, i believe its two dozes and needs to be kept in below freezing temperatures. Do we know about the other vaccine . Is it astrazeneca . I forget the name of the pharmaceutic pharmaceutical company. Modern arthriti moderna . Do we know how difficult that one will be to distribute and inoculate people . Its pretty similar what we call these cold storage challenges. Not quite as cold as pfizer but i think the way to look at it as someone explained it to me do the conventional distribution routes for cold storage work for this project . Johnson johns which is further down the line they are trig. Ing one shot normal cold storage vaccine. This fthat would be approved that would be much easier to distribute around the United States because of distribution channeling and that cold storage exists. For moderna and pfizer, these are brandnew sort of challenges for cold storage because its never been done before. By the way, pfizer is sort of they are not using the operation warp speed typical Distribution Channels and sort of decided to go it on their own and moderna i understand it. Gloria, the outstanding president made it a point to say this administration will not go into lockdown. But who knows what will happen in the future. This is the closest he has publicly gotten to recognizing that joe biden is the president elect and will be taking office on january 20th. Not there yet. Im not giving him any credit for being within the realm of the solar system instead of on plant earth but it was the closest thing we have heard. It was. It was a telling slip of the tongue because this is clear what he is thinking. Today was an important day. Joe biden got to 306 which was the number that he was at four years ago. Its hard for him not to acknowledge this. He is probably not ready to acknowledge it publicly because he hasnt figured out how he is going to his mike drop. Im not we are not privy to how he is going to do it at this point. He is waiting until november 20th when georgia, the recount is certified . We dont know. I thought it was really telling. What he was saying im going to let down whatever administration i mean, who knows. Well, that is more than we have heard from him. Yeah. Because we have not heard anything from him, of course. Still not cause for celebration. No. But at least something to acknowledge. Reality . A little reality, maybe . A little bit. Maybe. Jeff, this is the first time we are hearing from the outing president since joe biden was declared the president elect. He did not mention joe biden. He did not mention joe biden. I think in his demeanor he looked like a different person, quite frankly. His hair looked different. His demeanor looked different. We will see how he continues throughout the News Conference but he did not mention joe biden and joe biden has been moving forward with his transition. Actually, just moments before he came out, the biden Transition Team put out a statement calling on this administration to talk about masks and calling on this administration to act with urgency and we havent seen them do. We did not hear the president do knitting. It was just talking about vaccines. He sounded as though this crisis is on the verge of being over and that is simply not what the facts are showing. From a strictly political matter here, we did not see any acknowledgment of the reality that we are told that he has realized and we know that republicans virtually all of them with the exception of perhaps some who are on his payroll still have acknowledged the reality that joe biden has reached a 306 and he is going to be the president on january 20th at noon. We will see if President Trump is there or not. We just arent sure of that but he did not really, i didnt think, go as far as some republicans in this town were hoping he would. Yeah. We should note john kelly who served as President Trumps chief of staff has given an interview to politico where he says outstanding President Trump should acknowledge and allow to begin the transition process. If we hear outing President Trump saying that who knows what is going to happen, it might be worthwhile for the sake of National Security, at least according to kelly, to begin that process. Let me bring in sara murray who is investigating the Vaccine Distribution challenges. What have you learned . What was your response to what we just heard . No, sthis is not an easy challenge. This supply we have heard is going to be really limited and states are trying to prepare for this, right . One of the things that they cant get an answer to right now from this administration is how many doses of this vaccine are they going to be getting potentially as soon as december . There is a big difference if youre getting 10,000 doses delivered to your state versus if youre getting 5 million. Right now, they are not getting a lot of clarity on that from the Trump Administration that is making it harder for to plan where they are going to be and distribute the vaccine within their own state. This is to elderly and Health Care Workers initially. The president in his die a tribe when he talks about new york. I dont think his feelings about new york are relevant when it comes time for this vaccine to be available because he wont be in office. For this initial phase, i think states are really kind of trying to keep their heads down, stay out of the political fray, and prepare for how to get this first set of doses to these Health Care Workers as quickly as possible. As sanjay pointed out there will be difficulties and trick to the cold storage with this vaccine and states are trying to make details as well as they can without knowing how many doses they are getting. Outgoing President Trump put on twitter one of these tin foil hat conspiracy theories about Election Software changing the election results. Is there no evidence for tichit none. Its been debunked by his czar at the department of Homeland Security. He is salting the fields so people will not accept joe biden as president elect. His own cybersecurity people are saying this is the most secure election in American History and he is still sending out this disinformation. When you ask the question why, it has to be because he doesnt care about the democracy or the country or the future of his own Republican Party but it is about himself. And how he can possibly accept this loss and the only way that he can possibly do it is say it was rigeds aged and move on and ill be back again in 2024. That is how i think he will do it. Its so disgraceful. I know there remain patriots in the Trump Administration. Of course. In the trump white house. People who have been trying to contain this president , this outgoing president s worse pulse points and i think when will they leave . I think some of them will be there with him until the bitter ends. One of them i think of is Kayleigh Mcenany. But im asking about the patriots. A lot of them have left and the people left are his family and his devotees and people who figure that either they will stick with him for their own political good because he did get 71 or 72 million votes and that aint beans and its their own political future they are thinking about, not the country. Thank you for everyone. Let me remind the American People we dont need outgoing President Trump to concede. Its not required. It doesnt matter. President elect joe biden will take the office on january 20th and that will be the end of that. Its just the question how much of a sore loser the outgoing president wants to behave. Here is a list of my guests coming up sunday on state of the union. Ill see you then. Our coverage on cnn continues right now. Announcer this is cnn breaking news welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. We are following breaking news. The president was just speaking in the white house rose garden, giving a coronavirus update in his first Public Comments since his election loss. He once again refused to acknowledge joe biden as the winner saying, im quoting the president now, i guess time will tell. Cnn has just projected that president elect biden the winner in georgia and President Trump the winner in north carolina. That gives biden a total