Already in. Meantime of course the president refusing to concede the election repeating his baseless claims that the election was a fraud. Lets go to carol lee standing by for us in washington. Welcome to you. What did the president say today if anything on this . He made a number of very familiar being aing could yaccud that wont sound new to you, but he continues to make them. He also vented a range of frustrations on everyone from his own Justice Department to the governor of georgia who is a republican and ale lie. T ally. The president said he was ashamed that he endorsed him. And he took aim at the Judicial System Making Unfounded accusations of unfairness there. Take a listen. They dont want to take the affidavits. Then they say we dont have proof. I wanted to file one suit, donald j. Trump president of the United States against, you know and put everything into one simple suit and they say sir, you dont have standing. I say i dont have standing. You mean as president of the United States, i dont have standing. What kind of a court system is this . Reporter now, that last part gives and you window in to the president s frustrations with the limits of the powers of the presidency and checks and balances that are built into our system of government. You heard him there, he also went on to say that if the Supreme Court doesnt take one of his cases, then what is the point of Supreme Court essentially. And he also spoke about he revealed that he would not change his mind even if all of his cases are dismissed, if all the states certify the votes, if joe biden wins the election, he said it will not change my mind even six months from now, im still going to feel the same way. Well, good for him. Lets me ask you about another thing that were certainly concerned good which is the Coronavirus Infection rate. It is surging across this country. How is the white house responding to august the startling new numbers . We heard from dr. Fauci on meet the press. The startling new numbers . We heard from dr. Fauci on meet the press. He said essentially well see another surge and there will be more Travel Warnings around the Christmas Holiday. And that the cdc will meet next week to discuss their recommendations to states in terms of who should receive the vaccine first. And he said Vaccine Trials on children which is a key point will be beginning in january. He went on to chuck todd asked him what his advice to biden would be and he said that he needs to maintain an effective Distribution System for the vaccine and that he would expand tests so that it includes asymptomatic people because that is so much of what is causing these spikes in cases. He also was asked if he thought President Trump would become one of the voices out there urging people not to travel around the Christmas Holiday and urging them to wear masks. And he said he didnt know he said it is possible, i dont think that i have any power in that regard. So that is dr. Fauci saying he doesnt necessarily have power in that space. And yet what weve seen from the President Elect biden is that he wants to talk about coronavirus, he is actively talking about coronavirus nearly every day, him and his team. So a contrast there. Yeah, ill be speaking in a bit with one of incoming bidens covid Advisory Board members to see if maybe the transition and the slowing of that process is also slowing the distribution of the vaccine. Thank you very much, carol. Lets go now to one of the busiest rest stops in lake forest, illinois, many travelers opted for a safer route this thanksgiving season, driving. Aaa reports nearly 48 million vehicles were out on the roads. And Cory Coughlin is keeping an eye on things with the home bound traffic. And you are right there in this very busy rest stop. How does this years travel compare to this time last year . Reporter you know what, it is early similar. And travel not that much lower according to aaa. They say that their estimation is that it will be down about 4. 3 nationwide. But they dont have those final numbers yet and they made those estimations in october before the numbers got really bad. So they say travel could be down a little lower, but not much to be honest. I mean, weve got a busy scene here behind us, like you said, one of the Busiest Travel Stops in the nation, right on the illinois wisconsin border. The slight dip in car travel is nothing compared to what aaa told me the Airline Industry sustained. Listen in. This year 2. 5 Million People were going to be traveling by plane. And that is different from last year which was 4. 5. That is a 47 drop. Reporter so road trips vastly outweigh air travel, 95 of people preferring to drive, understandably so. And when i talk to travelers out here, they were kind of split 50 50 with changes in plans. One woman i talked to said that they did change their plans eating outside and Wearing Masks versus other people. Listen in. No, there was nobody at risk, but we still covered our face because his parents are a little older. So we took precautions. Reporter and then they shortened their trip as well. And then you have the other half of people who they said that they didnt want to make any changes whatsoever including going out in black friday shopping. And then there was the 50 50 split for people saying whether or not they would isolate. So only about half the population who did go somewhere plans on isolating. Doctors say we could see those effects in one three weeks. Lets hope everyone did wear a mask and they dont live to regret making bad choices. Now to Staten Island, new york where the recent spike in covid cases is overwhelming the hospitals there. This week Governor Cuomo opened an emergency Field Hospital on Staten Island for the First Time Since the spring now anticipating a postholiday surge. Lindsey riser is out side of that Field Hospital for us. What is happening there and what are the expectations for the coming weeks . Reporter they already have patients in the Field Hospital, they are expecting that number to grow. I want to show you where we are right now. The Brick And Mortar building behind me is a psychiatric facility that hasnt opened yet, that is the Field Hospital. And ill get to that in a minute. But see these tents, this is a staterun covid testing facility. So people can drive up, they dont need appointments, it is free. There is a National Guard person here guiding cars along. Nobody is here right now, but we have seen cars drive in this morning. There is a sign also that says make sure that you have your window rolled up until you get to that testing area. But that psychiatric facility that never opened, that is the Field Hospital. And that was also a Field Hospital open during the peak here from april to june. At that time they had 250 people go through those doors. Right now they have 14 patients. The medical director here tells me he expects that number to double tomorrow. But these are nonserious cases in the Field Hospital. The really urgent cases, they go to the main hospital. In fact there is a third facility about 9 miles south of where we are, and that is where other routine procedures, things like Cancer Treatments can still happen. But right now the situation here in Staten Island is worrisome, they have more cases than they did in the aftermath of july 4th or labor day. And here in this borough, they pride themselves on personal responsibility, but even local leadership is taking its constituents to task saying you are not social distancing and not Wearing Masks. And this is really foreboding of what is to come in this new phase, this new Field Hospital that is opening. We have a Holiday Season upon us, we have cooler temperatures, but the medical director here says that this is no time to let up. Lets listen. Shortsighted. The vaccine is on the way. We have actually very exquisite plans to distribute the vaccines once available. But they wont be available in time to stem this surge. Reporter so right now in new york city, we could expect Indoor Dining and gyms to close. So again, this Field Hospital open, the numbers only growing here. Hopefully people will listen to that doctors message. 100 hopefully. Thank you so much. An explosive front page Washington Post article is taking us inside the white house in the weeks after the president lost the election. The article slams trumps many failed legal pursuits saying in part trump endangered americas democracy, threatened to undermine National Security and Public Health and duped millions of his supporters into believing perhaps permanently that biden w elected illegitimately. That paper spoke with 32 Administration Officials who chose to remain anonymous. This is a heck of an article to discussion. Hayes, your reaction. I mean, weve seen it via his twitter feed and his few experiences since the election. He has just been stewing and being encouraged in [ [ Inaudible Question unwilling to hear it and turned to people that would tell him what he wanted to hear. That there is a way forward that you can pull it out through these contact these lawsuits. And it is only in recent days that trump has started to turn away from that and finally accepted that he has to turn over the keys to the transition even as his advisers say that legitimate fights do still continue in court. It is a great piece of reporting, but it shows the internal mechanisms of what weve been seeing play out live. And letting you know that were having and you had whiccus with you, we got the gist of what youre saying, but well have the Control Rotry to tweet that. And 32 officials trying to speak out. Yeah, this is essentially confirmation of everything that weve seen play out over the last several weeks. This is also, you know, the president realizing that court of law is very different from a court of Public Opinion which is very much the Playing Field that he has been in over the last four years. This is also what happens when you spend multiple years of your life and your presidency certainly living in the twitter and Fox News Media sphere. But he has spent so much time being convinced that not only was this election going to be illegitimate, but even that the 2016 election which he won was ill legitimate. We call when he said that there were 3 million to 5 million illegal ballots cast which was not true. He spent months before this election convincing essentially crusading against early and mailin voting which may have depressed turnout among his own voters and contributed to his popular vote loss to joe biden. And now were seeing the consequences play out in these two really essential runoff elections taking place in georgia which will decide control of the senate. And you know, republicans are in a conundrum now because they have a president and Many Republican lawmakers who have spent so long saying this election is illegitimate and now voters in that state confronting the rnc chairwoman saying ifs fix is in, if this is illegitimate, why should we bother participating. So that is the Messaging Strategy that were left with. Mixed messages absolutely. Let me ask you about the pennsylvania Supreme Court court. It officially rejected trumps lawsuit against the mailin ballots. What is the significance of this particular and final ruling . Yeah, this is basically the End Of The Road in pennsylvania. This lawsuit was brought by republican representative mike kelly and seven other republican plaintiffs and essentially sought to invalidate more than 2. 5 million mailin ballots. And the pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously rejected this request from the plaintiffs and said that if they had an issue with this, they should have filed a legal challenge a year ago when the procedures were first put into place. We had one judge saying that it was very clear that this lawsuit was brought because after two elections that already used the mailin voting process, republicans saw a result that they didnt like and that is why they were bringing this lawsuit. And just because you dont like something doesnt mean that you have the legal standing to challenge it. And thats exactly what they said in their written report there. Okay. Hayes, back to you. I hope youve hooked back up with us as we talk about the Washington Post article which also revealed fractures in the relationship between donald trump and his trusted lawyer rudy giuliani. One adviser in fact said that trump was embarrassed by that news conference, the one where hair dye was seen running down his face. But you recently wrote an article where you said that i believe this country owes a deep debt of gratitude to the former mayor of new york city, he is trumps worst enemy in the form of a close friend and legal counsel. What do you mean by that . I mean that giuliani has been for basically the entirety of trumps presidency and even before hand been encouraging trump to be at his worst. He has encouraged the Conspiracy Theories, he more or less got trump impeached by encouraging him to hunt down Conspiracy Theories in ukraine. And after the campaign, he sidelined a potential actual legal strategy that could have been put into place, instead going for these wild Conspiracy Theories up there along cindy powell and others claiming that hugo chavez somehow masterminded this whole scheme to steal the election from donald trump. So if it werent for giuliani, he might have actually been listening to people who are credible, who could actually help him. Instead he turned to giuliani who has been a loyal friend since at least 2015. And together they have made terrible, terrible decisions. Ones that i think actually benefited the country in the long run by keeping trump away from better advice. Yeah, i got to tell you, i stopped listening at hugh o chavez. That was ridiculous. Dont you think donald trump benefitted for look at the long yefri i Jeffrey Givity y of time that weve been talking about issues. Giuliani was very adept the Sowing Confusion and discord. So that worked for donald trump. It did, but it didnt get him to his ultimate goal. He still has not won the presidency. January 20th joe biden will become president. So in the long run, this actually backfires. They have two senate seats coming up in georgia. And if you are voters, people who would be supporting you, they are not focusing on that election. So in the long run, this will hurt them way more than us just talking about it for the last couple of weeks has been helping him. Okay. Thank you both for helping us. Heightening tensions around, lashes out over the assassination of the Top Nuclear Scientist, how it will play out and where might the u. S. Factor in. E cloud easier to manage. He working, parenting, problem solving. At new Chapter Vitamins weve been busy too. Innovating, sourcing organic ingredients, testing them and fermenting. Fermenting . Yeah like kombucha or yogurt. And we formulate everything so your body can really truly absorb the natural goodness. Thats what we do, so you can do you. New chapter wellness, well done. Youre choosing whento get connected to xfinity mobile, to the most Reliable Network nationwide, now with 5g included. Discover how to save up to 400 a year with shared data starting at 15 a month, or get the lowest price for one line of unlimited. 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