Vote. He lost the recounts. He lost the Electoral College, and now hes lost Mitch Mcconnell. Good morning, and welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, december 16th joe has the morning off. Along with willie and me we have White House Reporter for the washington press, Jonathan Lemire. Jim vandehigh, elise jordan is with us, and nbc news and correspondent of way too early, kasie hunt. Vladimir putin may have beaten him to it but well dive in with the most powerful republican in Congress Finally acknowledging who won the election. The Electoral College has spoken. I want to congratulate president elect joe biden. I also want to congratulate the Vice President elect our colleague from california, senator harris. All americans can take pride that the nation has a female Vice President elect for the first time. The president reacted to the comments tweeting that its too soon to give up. Wow. And that the Republican Party must finally learn to fight. But any sort of fight isnt likely to co
Change the outcome of the election. This shows that they still fear trumps tweet. They still fear republican primary challenges. This is really setting on fire american institutions. Its going to end with a vote in the senate and a vote in the house against what theyre trying to do and well all move on with our lives and joe biden will get inaugurated on january 20th. Final push, joe biden, Kamala Harris, and President Donald Trump converging on georgia ahead of tuesdays highstakes runoffs, when voters determine the balance of power in the u. S. Senate. And potential drama on the house floor today, as nancy pelosi faces tight margins for a fourth run at speaker. Plus, new york now the fourth state to record 1 million covid19 cases, as the u. S. Reports more than 350,000 covidrelated deaths. With that, we say good morning to you, its sunday, january 3rd. Im cory coffin. And im joe fryer. We have a team of analysts and reporters following the very latest for you right now. We begin in wa
Challenge the Electoral College results. And senator josh hawley joining over 140 house lawmakers demanding what would be a 10day emergency election audit from states with serious voting irregularities. This is an importantnt and critical and necessary step in an election that is wrought with serious issues. We have major institutional failures. T they are right. In terms of senator crews of th congressmen. All explain more on that in a moment. You wont hear this from the bo media. There is plenty of precedent for this challenge. S democrats have contested results 4 times. 1969 to 2001 and 2004 and 2017. That would be Donald Trumps election. On 2 occasions the challenges had support from at least one senate democrat. 2005, after the 2004 election senator Barbara Boxer a senator from california contested the results in the name of Voter Suppression even though john kerry conceded that race. In 2001 the New York Times reported that a dozen members of the american black caucus tried to bl
Itself for years to come. Weve got the georgia runoffs tomorrow which decide control of the senate and then on wednesday it is President Trumps last stand as electoral votes are counted on capitol hill. All of this is happening as the coronavirus pandemic keeps raging. 352,000 americans are dead. More than 20 million infected. And a Record Number are waking up today in hospitals. But we know that is not where President Trumps head is at. He is still trying to figure out some sort of way to turn his election loss into a win. He failed with the american voters. He failed in court. So now hes resorting to the kind of tactics you might read about in third world countries. Putting pressure on the people in charge to somehow find just enough votes to make thing goes his way. Nbc has learned President Trump tried to reach georgia secretary of state 18 times in the last two months. When the two finally spoke on saturday, here is the message President Trump wanted to send. So look, all i want t
Going to be covering on the show tonight all the current and forthcoming nuttiness of this week, because of that, i think we should start tonight right here with something that i think is the opposite of nuts. Following on chris discussion earlier tonight with dr. Anthony fauci about the challenges of the Vaccination Program and how slow it is going, and how hard it is apparently to get vaccines into american arms now that weve got it approved and the Vaccine Program up and running. Given that, tonight i would like to start by introducing you to ms. Maureen weil. She lives in the Great American city of new orleans, and, trust me, you are going to be happy to meet her. Do you mind if i ask how old you are . 79. So youre in that group . Oh, yeah. How does it feel to be one of the first people in excited, and i feel im blessed to be one of the few that can get it because people are standing in line trying to get it. You said you feel excited. Why . Because i have a chance to see a few mor