Reaching out to the 70 million americans who voted for President Trump. Lets give each other a chance. We have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies. They are americans. This morning as the president elect looks ahead to 2021, President Trump is still claiming falsely that he won the election. His legal team says it is ready to fight the results even as pressure builds on the president to concede. We will have lie reporve report will talk to chuck todd just ahead. Then, our sunday focus on the historic Vice President election Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants who helped propel her ticket to the white house. Plus in our sunday spotlight, a great conversation between harry smith and historian john meacham about where the country is and where it is headed after this election. At least four years under President Trump. Later we will continue to a new sunday sitdown with one of the most talented artists in all of music. Grammy winner Chris Stapleton on his rise from nashville songwriter to multiplatinum star, singing with his wife morgan, and the fiery song on his new album that takes on a dark day in america. Even after i recorded it, i was like, i dont know, is this the thing is this the thing to put on that people would want to hear on the record . I dont know. A sunday sitdown and another life well lived later in the show. Lets begin with joe biden. Former senator and Vice President winning the presidency. President elect biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris inherited a divided country in the middle of an exploding Public Health crisis. President trump, meanwhile, continues to make baseless claims about the election process. We have reports from both camps this morning. Lets begin with nbcs Geoff Bennett with the Biden Campaign in wilmington, delaware. Geoff, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning. Joe bidens election was greeted here in wilmington with excitement, a. Able pap a palpable sense of pride, and a deep sense of relief with joe biden urging unity over division. His election caps what has been a 32year quest for the presidency. President elect joe biden running in to history. Im humbled by the trust and confidence youve placed in me. I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. Reporter addressing the nation saturday night for the first time after winning the white house. Lets give each other a chance. We have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies, they are americans. Reporter biden promising to name on monday a select team of scientists and experts to create a plan to confront the coronavirus crisis. That plan will be built on bedrock science. It will be constructed out of compassion, empathy, and concern. Reporter biden joined by Vice President elect Kamala Harris. The first black and Indian American woman to serve in that role. For four years you marched and organized for equality and justice, for our lives, and for our planet, and then you voted. Reporter harris dressed in a white pantsuit, a favorite color of the suffragettes who fought for the right of women to vote. Every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. Reporter bidens victory moved many into the streets. From the white house to the west coast. Dancing and marching to celebrate the end of a trump presidency. [ cheers ] reporter back in wilmington, biden and harris brought their entire families on stage with them to close out their victory. For a fireworks display to celebrate the election of the countrys 46th president. And so now joe biden gets to work. His transition im told officially launches tomorrow, and weve also learned that he is set to sign a shoe of executive orders slew of executive orders aimed at overturning key parts of the trump agenda including the paris climate accords, reversing the part in the world health organization, ending the muslim travel ban. A Campaign Source says that joe biden is making good on his longstanding promises. Getting to work quickly. Geoff bennett in wilmington, delaware, thank you so much. President trump meanwhile vowing to fight the Election Results saying in a statement the election is, quote, far from over, claiming on twitter that he won the election. His legal team says it is ready to take its case to court. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is at the white house for us. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Like so many things in the trump era, tradition and typical practice are not in play. So no concession, and instead talk of heading to Court Tomorrow to litigate the voting process in a number of key states. For now, President Trump remains a fighter. President trumps motorcade passed by signs of his defeat saturday as reaction to the election outcome filled the streets. [ cheers ] the president , who had sought fresh air and perhaps solace on the golf course, returned to the white house where he found something to boast about on twitter. R. 71 million legal votes, the most ever for a sitting president. While he rounded that vote total upward, his tally is an achievement on its own. Hours earlier he tweeted a false claim in all caps i won this election by a lot. In philadelphia, trump ally Rudolph Giuliani argued that pennsylvania poll workers may not have separated ballots that arrived after election day. Hes not going to concede when at least 600,000 ballots are in question. Its not my job to determine if the ballots are right or not, its their job. Reporter in a campaign statement, the president complained that calling the race was premature. This election is far from over, joe biden has not been certified as the winner of any states. Beginning monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court. Rana mcdaniel says a michigan Voting Software error cost the president votes. Theres serious irregularities here. Give us time to pursue them. Reporter former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney writes that voters need this election to be fully litigated, to resolve various questions republicans raised. But mulvaney adds, i have every expectation that mr. Trump will be, act, and speak like a great president should win or lose. And the Trump Campaign continues to send out fundraising appeals to raise money for this litigation. The fine print shows the money could be used to retire campaign debts. Now no states have officially certified their results as of now. But expect in the days to come republicans to put more pressure on the president to recognize the outcome. Willie . Kelly odonnell at the white house. Thank you. Chuck todd is nbcs political director and moderator of meet the press. Good morning. Great to see you on this morning after joe biden became president elect. You and i have been talking about there campaign for what feels like an eternity, a year and a half at least on sunday gettogethers. Lets talk about what happens and what this vote says about the country. Joe biden got a Record Number of votes for a president ial candidate. But it was donald trump who got 70 million votes, the second most and in fact about seven million more than he got in 2016. So what did we learn this week about america with this vote . Reporter well, the biggest takeaway i had with this election was that it means that 2016 was not a fluke. Right. You know, that to me is the most important takeaway because i think there was a lot of questions about that, was 2016 an outlier, was it because of of the candidates that the public was responding to . I think its pretty clear thats not the case. That the divide that that donald trump exploited to become president is real, and it is bigger than donald trump, right. Which there were plenty of people that were arguing that at the time. But there was look, i think this election was going to be about whether there was going to be a repudiation of not just donald trump but of trumpism. And i think that the overwhelming evidence of the election is it was a repudiation of donald trump the man but not necessarily repudiation of donald trumpism. And joe biden spoke to that last night. Spoke to those 70 million voters, talking about healing the country. So do you expect, chuck, donald trump to concede . Of course hes been talking now for weeks and months about legal challenges, about the election being rigged. Those claims seem to be getting more thin and more thin by the day. Hes had a bunch of rejected lawsuits across different states. Yeah. So there are reports this morning that some people close to him are going to approach him and say it may be time to concede this election. Do you see that coming . I think hell do it in a way that wont ever feel like a concession to him. That hell acknowledge the results without acknowledging whether he thinks it was fair and square because thats just who he is. I mean, i do think we forget the very first election, willie, that he ever participated in as a candidate were the iowa caucuses. And do you know what he said after that night . That somehow there was cheating going on and thats why ted cruz won. The point is i dont think hes ever accepted a loss fair and square. Ive never played monopoly with him but wonder if hes ever accepted losing that. You know, so i think heres what i feel like we do know about him, though, willie, is that he doesnt like to walk away from the spotlight. Hes going to find a way to try to make himself relevant during this transition in different ways. And thats the part of this that i thinks a wild card, is an unknown, and in the middle of having now to deal with the virus without the election being in the way, ill be curious to see if there is any opportunity here to see some i dont know maybe a grownup response after all this so that we can all focus on covid right now. Yeah. I mean, joe biden signaled last night that he is going to focus on covid19 beginning tomorrow during this transition period. Hes going to put together a panel of scientists to look at the problem and to come up with new strategies. So lets look ahead to a Biden Administration. Its not until january 20th, of course, when hes sworn in. Hes already talking about reports of executive orders on things like immigration and the paris climate accords and getting back together with the world health organization. What do you think the early days of a Biden Administration look like . Look, i not hopefhonestlyo see whats in the Georgia Senate runoffs. I think a lot depends on which party does control the senate. I think a lot about whether its the personnel that the Vice President , now the president elect wants to have. I mean, it that makes a that is a huge difference. I mean, i think in his ambitions youre going to hear some of the same plans whether it is Mitch Mcconnell thats majority leader or chuck schumer. But in reality, how much of it is executive order driven and how much of it is an attempt to get major legislation done is still going to have a lot to do with what happens in those Georgia Senate runoffs. We wont know until early january. A lot to talk about. Thank you so much, my friend. We will get more on meet the press when chuck is joined by republican senator mitt romney of utah and democratic congressman jim clyburn of south carolina. Straight ahead, the highs and lows of the week, including the truly breathtaking moment when a whale surfaces and scoops up a couple of kayakers in its mouth. Well show you how this turned out. Plus, the National Obsession with one of our own, steve kornacki, who spent a sleepless election week keeping america updated at the big board and making khakis cool. Up next, our sunday focus, on the Vice President elect, Kamala Harris, making history as she helped to sweep joe biden into the white house. When kamala walks into the white house in january, again, shes bringing millions of families and women with her. Its all coming up on sunday today. Through the walk of life, walgreens has always been there to help make life easier. And now were doing the same with medicare. So you can easily find the best, most affordable plan for you. 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With stops of California Attorney general and United States senator along the way, harris now has broken a list of barriers as the Vice President elect of the United States. Nbcs Morgan Radford has more in our sunday focus. We did it. We did it, joe. Reporter for president elect joe biden, a moment more than 30 years in the making. For Vice President elect Kamala Harris, a moment many only dreamed of. To the woman most responsible for my presence here today, my mother. I am thinking about her and about the generations of women, black women [ cheers ] asian, white, latina, native american women who throughout our nations history have paved the way for this moment tonight. Reporter the first woman, the first black woman, and the first south asian woman to be heading to the white house. One of the reasons i chose kamala is because we both believe that we can define america simply in one word possibilities. Kamala reporter biden may have made the choice that diversified his ticket, but harris has credentials that earned her this place. The top prosecutor in california and later senator from the golden state. She has often been the only woman of color to hold her job. Sometimes we may be the only one that looks at us walking in that room, having had the experiences that weve had, but the thing we all know is we never walk in those rooms alone. We are all in that room together. [ cheers ] reporter when you see and hear this excitement, how does that make you feel . Oh, amazing. Amazing. Reporter how old are you . 5. I was telling her you should be Vice President , you should be the president of the United States, as well. Historic, makes me believe in the system more, in america more. Reporter harris aware of the power of her image. I want you to go for it and have goals. And know that you can achieve those things, know and see what can be, unburdened by what has been. Reporter and now making her own history 100 years after women first earned the right to vote. When kamala walks into the white house in january, again, shes bringing millions of families and women with her. So it is a good day. It is a good day not only for the United States