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Can continue in their footsteps of moving our state in the right direction, and ill be seeing governor diehl tomorrow. reporter: [inaudible] >> i have not. thank you very much. >> [applause] neil: all right that is georgia s official governor- elect brian kemp reminding folks it is done, it is over he has a state to lead and very little time to get everything in order to do that before his inauguration. this now 11 days after the election that was considered very very close, closer than any thou...

While hes on the ground, including the governor and governor elect. more in the next hour, back to you. >> kevin, thanks for that. stay safe out there and well talk to you later in the show. >> all right, dont forget to watch chris wallaces exclusive interview with the president tomorrow. a lot about the wildfires and a whole lot more. check your local listings for time and channel and chris wallace will then sit down with howard kurtz on media buzz to talk about the interview and debrief as wel...

Florida. my wife and i could not be prouder of the way he ran his race.we could not be more thankful to my running mate and his wife. andrew gillum had been pushing people to keep going to election facilities until 5:00 today. that was the deadline to go and fix a ballot if the supervisor sent a letter that there was a problem with your signature. not matching the ballot versus their records. that ended just a little more than one hour ago. a few minutes afterwards, is when andrew gillum finally...

Saving you hundreds of dollars a year. and ask how you get xfinity mobile included with your internet. plus, get $200 back when you when you buy a new smartphone. xfinity mobile. its simple. easy. awesome. click, call or visit a store today. youre looking at the president at the chico municipal airport, having made a flyover of the devastation due to the fires in northern california, the camp fire as its been known where there are some 71 who have perished in the flames there. absolutely devasta...

In paradise that community thats been basically decimated by the so-called camp fire and spent some time meeting with first responders. he was accompanied by jerry brown and gavin newsom. both the governor and governor-elect, of course, talk a lot about climate change but the president said that the issue still here remains, forestry management. listen. >> does seeing this devastation change your opinion at all on climate change? >> no, no. were going to have forest thats are very safe because w...

Consoler in chief. hes meeting with governor jerry brown and governor-elect gary newsome on the tarmac. he spoke with the trip with reports are this morni reporters this morning before leaving the white house. >> well be out there talking to the governors and the first responders and fema. they have been incredible. the firefighters have been unbelievably brave. >> hes visiting a state thats been ravaged over the past week by the deadliest wildfire in its history. overnight the death toll climbi...

California. hes surveying the damage and the after math of the devastating wildfires. just getting a sense there of the scorched earth that is right in front of him. the president speaking a short time ago. take a listen. . >> right now, we want to take care of the people that are so badly hurt, the families, a lot of people have been lost. you dont know the final count, we wont know that for a while. there are areas, you cant even get to them yet, but we have incredible people doing the job, s...

Were -- its going to take a lot of funding. >> reporter: and the governor and governor-elect didnt call him on that. in fact, theres a lot of agreement there that there does need to be better forestry management. the underlying cause, of course, is the subject of continued debate. ill give you a sense of where i am here. this is one of a half a dozen evacuation centers from the so-called chico fire. this one alone has 177 people here and the big issue -- you know, we have 1,000 plus people missi...

Important, really, for democrats as well to be focusing on the secretary of state races which for so long we havent really focused on. and in georgia, for instance, there is a secretary of state race coming up to replace brian kemp. so hopefully thats a seat that we can take back. >> liz, do you think republicans can really find any joy in the process being accused of being less than fair in order to win? i mean there were major losses. there was a blue wave and now you have a governor in georgi...

Hard. i think youre going to see something very spectacular over the next number of years. >> reporter: and on that point, governor jerry brown who will leave office next year, was not that far off from where the president is saying that a lot of things have contributed to this, and clearly the governor has been adamant on the issue of climate change and his successor gavin newsom, the same way. this was all very conciliatory, and as the governor and governor-elect had tweeted before the preside...