Be alarming. At some point here well find out finally who is certified in each of these states and the Electoral College will determine the winner and that person will be sworn in january 20th. No reason for alarm. Now, biden is going to speak here in a short time in wilmington, delaware where cnn Political CorrespondentArlette Saenz is covering the transition. Arlette, the refusal to proceed with peaceful transition of power, where should things be at this point if President Trump were not taking this extraordinary position. Reporter this is impeding important technical aspects of the transition that needs to take place. There are things like having access to Million Dollars of funding, also not having access to classified, highly classified information, having access to that or being able to discuss it. Also, just looking ahead, the transition would be unable to conduct background checks on some cabinet picks, so theres a lot thats currently in limbo for president elect bidens transition because of this decision by the gsa administrator not to sign that very important document. And biden over the course of the weekend told his allies to try to give some space to republicans and the president , to try to accept the reality of what is happening here. Now bidens allies are recognizing that they may need to step up and take on a tougher stance going forward. Transition officials said theyre considering Legal Options as a way to respond to this, as his transition now, some of that work is in limbo. Publicly, biden is still pushing forward and moving ahead with conducting some official business. We learned that the president elect has held phone calls with two world, at least two World Leaders today, british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson as well as french president macron. So he is still moving forward trying to do some of that business of this transition work and youre going to hear from biden a little later this afternoon as he talks about the Affordable Care act as the Supreme Court now is hearing arguments about the future of that law. This was the obama administrations Signature HealthCare Initiative which biden vowed to protect. He is expected to speak about that a little later this afternoon. But right now, it is his transition, some important technical aspects of it that are under threat. Arlette, thank you so much for all of that from wilmington. The president of the United States still has not conceded the race. And if the nation werent so numb to his antics it would shake america to its core and still might. Four years ago, president obama welcomed then president elect trump to the white house, traditional visit to signal peaceful transition of power. Four years ago today, former First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed Melania Trump for tea in the yellow oval room as part of the peaceful transition of power. Four years ago today. Then Vice President biden welcomed his successor mike pence to the Vice President ial residence as part of that. 12 years ago, george w. Bush welcomed barack obama as part of the peaceful transition of power. But today instead of welcoming president elect joe biden to the white house to signal a peaceful transfer of power, President Trump who lost the election is in the white house getting very mad at his Television Set if accounts by sources to cnn in the past few days are any indication. He is refusing to cooperate with peaceful transition of power that is the bedrock of our democracy. While also refusing to try to slow down a pandemic thats now worsening at an alarming rate and killing americans. Thousands of them. Instead of a badly needed intervention, his biggest enablers are bowing to the leader. The sick fanlts that get rich flaming intentions from the orbit of planet trump and his enablers at the highest levels of government. Like attorney general bill barr who is launching doj into investigation of Election Fraud, the only evidence being the president s hurt feelings. Richard pillgar, head of the office that prosecutes election crimes or was, just quit in protest. Barr is no stranger to doing trumps bidding, despite its dangers to the country. His list of acts in service of planet trump is long and questionable. Misleading the public about the findings of the mueller investigation, trying to prevent a whistleblower complaint about the president s phone call asking ukraine to investigate joe biden, from going to congress, intervening in the Michael Flynn case, in the roger stone case, firing the head of Southern District of new york while he was investigating trumps inner circle. Trying to have the doj represent the president in a lawsuit brought by e. Jean carol who alleged the president rapd her in the 90s. So the president could pose for a photo op by the white house, and spending 30 grand for a Holiday Party at trumps d. C. Hotel. Repeatedly spreading disinformation about mailin voting, suggesting communities that dont respect police will lose police protection. As if thats not enough, barr is compelled to shower the president with praise. He is very easy to work with. Has a good sense of humor, very district. The president went out at the beginning of this and politization of decisions like hydroxychloroquine is amazing to me. The president attacked barr in recent weeks for not prosecuting his political enemies. Unless bill barr indicts these people for crimes, greatest political crime in the history of our country, bill barr will go down as the greatest attorney general in the history of the country or go down as a very sad situation. In the senate, republican Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is refusing to recognize the winner of this race. President trump is 100 within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his Legal Options. It is not only weird mcconnell is fueling the baseless claims about fraud in the election, the republican senators who are still silent about bidens win, theyre enablers too. We will leave it up a second. If a gop is not named romney, sass, murkowski or collins, theyre on this list. Sound of silence more abundant than the song that they wrote about silent masses that didnt use their voices, quote, and the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made, end quote, that they make. These senators who are not powerless, theyre just afraid of consequences of using their power which is where courage comes in. So far, they lack courage to serve their country over their party. The president s children are supporting their fathers flailing attempt to upend a legal election outcome. Melania trump and Jared Kushner have advised trump to consider accepting the election loss. Kushner it appears has also moved onto advice the president may take, suggesting he hold rallies, pushing for a recount, as has Rudy Giuliani and jason miller. I compared that trio yesterday to the ones that take a heartbroken friend, cant understand that majority of merge isnt that into him out to a bar after a bad breakup. The longer this drags on, more theyre like a band of holligans driving to the exs house blasting peter gabriel. This time it wont work out nor lloyd dobbler. Trump cant just say anything, he has to say the truth. His biggest enabler is of course fox. We dont know how many votes were stolen, about the software that was rigged. They want you to believe that to say vote process is above board. Do you believe that . They want you to ignore irregularities, lack of transparency, the serious instances where the law was broken. Bidens Campaign Says theyre defending the election. They deny what theyre really doing which is stealing it. But even on fox the jig is up, man. Neil cavuto couldnt keep up with the charade. Well, we have to be clear, shes charging, the other side is welcoming fraud and illegal voting, unless she has more details to back that up, i cant in good couldnt nance continue to show this. Later his colleague took a shot for that. In a democracy you cant ignore honest questions from citizens, you cant dismiss them out of hand as crazy or immoral for asking. Cant cut away from coverage you dont like. You can cut away from speech that is dangerous lies. In fact, you should. In a democracy, you cant just ignore votes from citizens in the name of entertaining socalled honest questions as he put it that are based on conspiracy theories about voter fraud. The mixed messages from fox underscore how trumps hold on the network is slipping away, at least for some there, just like his days in the white house. For fox prime time, perhaps not a surprise. Theyre soar losers. In 2016, they were soar winners as they aligned themselves with trump accolades. Hillary clinton is still refusing to accept the real reason she lost to president elect donald trump, instead of acknowledging she was a terribly flawed, corrupt candidate with a long track record of failure and larger majority of American Voters didnt like, Hillary Clinton is blaming everything but herself for her election loss. They have to decide whether theyre going to interfere with him finishing his business, interfere with peaceful transition, transfer of power to president elect trump and Vice President elect pence or if theyre going to be a bunch of cry babies and soar losers about an election they cant turn around. Youre advancing a false Conspiracy Theory why you lost, you cant accept responsibility. The soar loser left, acting like spoiled brats, didnt get what they wanted for christmas, now theyre going to ruin the holiday for everyone else. It is a soar loser, barack obama trying to delegit mice election of President Trump. This wasnt even close. Collins right there by the way was sentenced to prison for insider trading. Even Vladimir Putin who is still silent on bidens win had something to say about sore losers. The democrats lost and are looking for someone guilty of this. I think this is simply humiliating for themselves. One has to know how to lose decently. Even President Trump has made that clear as he addressed this topic during a thanksgiving turkey pardoning at the white house where a turkey names carrots refused to concede to the winner. The winner of this vote was decided by a fair and open election conducted on the white house website. This was a fair election. Unfortunately, carrots refused to concede and demanded a recount, and were still fighting with carrots. And i will tell you, we have come to a conclusion. Carrots, the result did not change. Too bad for carrots. But whos the turkey now. Now lets talk with an expert about the director of the dojs Election Crimes Branch resigning instead of carrying out bill barrs orders preventing that before the votes are certified. Harry, he wrote in an email to colleagues that barr is issuing, quote, an important new policy abrogating the 40yearold noninterference policy for ballot fraud investigations in the period prior to elections becoming certified and uncontested. For people that are not familiar with ins and outs of Election Security law, explain why barrs move is so significant. Sure. You know, i have been trying to stay cool the last 24 hours because theres no great risk here, but you have me worked up again. That was quite a tour deforce of whats owed yus. He is a 20 year veteran, resigns because barr completely changed written policy. Were in a very delicate period that federal law recognizes between the election and certification, and it is express written doj policy, you keep your mitts off, you dont want to undermine. What they can do is suggest theres investigation and have people worried, have people afraid that maybe theyll impound the ballots, nothing they can really do. For him to change it, a, was a subrogation of important doj policies. It speaks volumes when a guy like Richard Hilger steps down. They could say well, it is just his day in court, but it is so much more than that, as you spelled out. It is demoralizing for the election. It keeps transition from going forward. It energizes the base as they want it to do. Makes trump able to raise money for the Georgia Election and to retire his own Campaign Debt and it just makes us look like an insecure possible banana republic. Bottom line is they cant do anything here, but it is an outrageous dereliction with one more tangible sign that the long time professional prosecutor is just resigning. Yeah. As you mention, the president is not conceding. His administration is blocking transition funds to bidens team. Now you have this move by barr. What Legal Options does biden have to force his Transition Team to get maybe not just funds it needs but really the access, that may be whats key when it comes to nurational security wh it comes to Sensitive Information and the ability to discuss it and plan. Completely. First, it is both. On the National Security level, i want to mention the 9 11 Commission Said one of the reasons bush hadnt revved up his National Security apparatus soon enough was because of the bush v gore election. There are real costs here in National Security. Not just that, as you say, the actual ability to be able to go forward with just standard planning, background, investigations of new appointees. This is not a benign move. When mcconnell says oh, it is nothing unusual, it is completely unusual because, and the bottom line shouldnt be forgotten here, theres not a shred, not a shred of evidence of these completely hysterical claims of widespread fraud or irregularities. Theres a couple votes here, that could never change the election. No court will do anything with this, doj wont do anything with this, but it really harms the ability for biden and the country to move forward. And i mean, when you couple that, this sort of inability to rev up the National Security apparatus, plus you have the president firing the defense secretary, there was a pentagon official that resigned a day after that. Are you worried . Sounds like youre saying there are National Security vulnerabilities that are caused. Could this turn into a crisis . Yeah, so any National Security expert will tell you that, it is well known during a transition, even a normal, lawful transition is a time that adversaries may try to exploit us in ways we dont even know. Thats part of what was going on with mike flynn. So it is a worry. Now that were in this enhanced instability because of what barr has done, because of what the republican senators have done, yes, it aggravates the possibility and presents a real risk of crisis, and thats in addition, again, to the entire sort of work a day necessity of a government being able to get ready and move on day one. We cant have any gaps in the executive branch. If they cant get in there until a few weeks before, it is really calamitous. They need to get in there. Harry, thank you so much for your expertise. Appreciate it. The Coronavirus Crisis is worsening at an alarming rate. Hospitalizations are surging. A Biden Coronavirus Task force expert says the u. S. Is entering covid hell. 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