You a box. Thank you thank you for being an example of what people can do when bad things happen to good puppies. Richard wilbanks, happy thanksgiving. I know gun every will have one. Happy thanksgiving to the world. All right. You know that i like that i did that on your watch. You know you wanted every piece of that guy on your watch. I know you like to fashion yourself a tough guy and man, you would have loved that to be you and someone goes it would not have been me. I got to tell you it would not be me. Lots of gators. We dont like to mess with those gators. Theyre like sleeping dogs. You just let them lie. When you got a dog and a gator coming together and the gators trying to eat the going, thats what we chomp them gators down in louisiana at lsu. Maybe on the football fields. You got two rescues you love, ive got the three dogs. Can you imagine . Owe know what it makes to go under the water where the alligator is with the puppy. Id like to think i would. But i dont know. I know you i know you i dont think i know that you dont but ill tell you like this. Whenever you say youre going to beat me up. Im like that gator. Im scrappy. I got to tell you what. I tell you what. This is whats happening right now. Americans are trying to wrestle back democracy. Good segue. Not wrestle, wrastle. I love you. Id pry id pry you out of the mouth of an alligator any day. Have a good show. It might be you. We got figure that out. Youre the gator here. Let me go if its me. Ive had enough. See you later. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. In breaking news, it is over. The desperate refusal to admit the reality everyone else has seen for 16 days now, it is over. That is of joe biden and really america trying to wrastle mem si back. Joe biden is the president elect where the president likes it or not. So transition now can finally officially begin. It couldnt happen at a better time, thanksgiving week, folks are at home, they need to we need to just rest instead of all the craziness. The news first on cnn. Coming in in a letter from a previously little known bureaucrat, thats a General Services administer emily murphy. She says i take this role seriously and because of recent developments involving legal challenges and certifications of Election Results, i am transmitting this letter today to make those resources and Services Available to you. Should have happened a long time ago but america will take it. Trump insiders admitting, quote, it is over, blaring wakeup call. This is close to a concession as youll get from trump. Thats probably it. And ok, fine. I can tell you the damage he has done by claiming this election was stolen is unparalleled and indefensible. Thats what another senior republican is saying. Thats coming from trump insiders. Someone tweeting hell continue to fight and instructing the gsa to do what needs to be done, which theyre already doing it. The fact is the president elect is moving ahead. The current president is pretty much, i dont know, out hes out of ways to hold this president elect back. Hes a lame duck president and hes trying to wiggle and do everything he can to get out of it or have some power. Poof, powers over, done. Bidens transition executive director saying todays decision is a needed step to begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including the pandemic and the economy. With the virus soaring across the country, millions of americans ignoring warnings from the cdc and traveling for thanksgiving. Joe biden tells mayers this today. All of you have on the front lines from the very beginning and as we head into this thanksgiving in a very dark number of cases and hospitalizations spiking, i want you to know that were here for you. The transition is finally, finally getting under way, and not a moment too soon. It comes with more and more republicans trying to get a message to this current president. It is time. The idea that a sitting president would try to i dont know pressure, cajole, persuade state legislators to dismiss the will of their voters and select their own group of electors and send them to the Electoral College is completely inconsistent with any kind of truly democratic society. So that shouldnt be going on, in my view. I dont like to characterize how my colleagues feel about these things, but i can assure you i am not alone in this view among republican senators. The voters voted. Here again in michigan, its not a razor thin margin. Its 154,000 votes. You got to let those votes stand. Now were beginning to look like were a banana republic. Its time to stop the nonsense. It gets more bizarre every day and im embarrassed that more people in the party is not speaking up. Its been a national embarrassment. Ive be a supporter of the president s. I voted for him twice but elections have consequences, and we cannot dont to act as if something happened here that didnt happen. They know the partys over. President trump knows the partys over. Just cant quit, though. Trump confidante saying the outcome is very certain today and the country should move on. Do you hear that, conservative media . If that ive been listening to all weekend. Its over. Move on. Stop misinforming the public. One after another they saw the writing on the wall. But wait. Whats that i hear from mitch mcconnell, ted cruz and lindsey ga graham . Do you hear that . Right, because its crickets. The silence is deafening. 58 days to go until inauguration day. Now the president has run out of road. Michigan voting to certify its Election Results in spite of pressure from the white house. And the number of court cases won by the Trump Campaign dropped from two to just one single case today after Pennsylvanias Supreme Court overturned one of those wins. So that makes a stunning 30 cases, 30 lost or withdrawn since election day with just one win and the president true to form is looking for someone to blame. Looks like its going to be someone on his legal team. A source saying he just about had it with Rudy Guiliani. Really . Just about had it . You have to remember ukraine and all the imbeachment mess and the hunter biden stuff that helped him become a lame duck oneterm president . Impeached oneterm president and now hes finally had it with Rudy Guiliani . Where you been . Hes upset with Rudy Guiliani, losing patience with the man who used to be known as americas mayor. Guiliani admitting he exaggerates a bit about voter fraud, just a bit. The city of drought had more votes than citizens im exaggerating a little bit. Look at statistical data and you can see the fraud was ram pant out of control. Well, remember he admitted hes exaggerating, right. Then theres Legal Advisor as trump would say, what a boston. He loves that work. What a beautifully. Jenna ellis insisting the election was stolen. Thats the kind of dangerous stuff theyre still spewing on the network and its a bunch of bs. Its not true at all. Do the right thing for the country. Country before party. Country before whatever it is that youre doing. The two of them throwing sidney throwing Sidney Powell under the bus today after her ridiculous an completely best claims about venezuela and george saros being mixed up in a voter fraud. Lets not forget, she was presented as a key member of the legal team last week. But when you lose rush limbaugh, case is closed. You call a gigantic press conference like that, one that lasts an hour, and you announce massive bomb shels, then you better have some bottom shells. There better be something at that press conference other than what we got. I talked to so many people who were blown away by it, by the very nature of the press con but they promised blockbuster stuff and then nothing happened. And thats just thats not well its just its not good. Hmm. Its not good. Where have they been with the evidence . Were they hoping somehow that Sidney Powell, julie ellis, Rudy Guiliani, et al. , esquires ellal. It was right in front of their faces. There was no path. They knew it was a bunch of b. S. It was obvious to everybody. Unless you just dont want to believe the truth and youre living in an alternative reality. That is the truth. Tough as it is to hear for some folks. Two trump advisors saying what the president tweeted tonight is concession light. Great taste, less filling. If youre old enough to remember that. One going on to call the whole thing a veiled attempt to justify continued fund raising solicitations. Told i about that. Its to raise money. May part of it. Safe face to be able to continue to pretend to people that he is a winner and a great businessman and a good politician, none of which are true. Once a grifter, always a grifter. All this disruption, terrible for the country. You remember patriot, love the country, family values, where did that whew. Right out the door where did it go. And hes doing it so he can raise money off of you. The Trump Campaign has sent supporters at least 332 emails from Election Night. Remember, all those cases i told you, 30, thrown out, withdrawn, fund raising off of his legal fight. Mi milking those for everything he can. Still trying to defraud voters. If only the current president would listen to donald trump just two years ago talking turkey about votes. 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. Were still fighting with carrots. Weve come to a conclusion. Carrots, im sorry to tell you, the result did not change. Too bad for carrots. Whos the real turkey . The president is yet to actually concede, than might never happen. Do you really care, though . After weeks of stalling, completely unfounded accusations, the transition can finally begin, and joe bidens former boss says this about whats ahead. Theres been some damage done that is going to take some time to dig ourselves out of. But theres no doubt that joes got the right people to do it. Priceline works with top hotels, to save you up to 60 . These are all great. And when you get a big deal. You feel like a big deal. Priceline. Every trip is a big deal. Ah honey honey you are my candy girl and youve got me wanting you applebees 2 for 20. Its date night in the neighborhood. Apdamom, look get 20. Sare you okay . . Head home this holiday with the one you love. 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Caitlin, President Trump keeps losing michigan, pennsylvania, now the gsa saying bidens transition can formally begin. Whats he saying . Hows he responding to this . Well, hes trying to frame it as if he gave the gsa this permission to let this formal transition start to take place. However, from the trump to the biden team they say they made this decision independently, saying she was not prebd by the executive branch to do so. However, the president said he recommended she do so. The court cases and the string of losses weve seen over the last 72 hours or so for the president played a role in this decision today because emily murphy references that in her election and says that was behind the decision to move forward in this. She said she wanted to let the constitutional process play out. Theres been a lot of criticism of her and gsa for stone walling it for this long. Theres been case after case after case that we said at least 30 of them thats been withdrawn or even thrown out. Their record is terrible. Jeff, whats the board from the biden team . Theyre going to have access now to resources, critically important resources on national security, covid and so on and so forth. Theyve been trying to get this information, but theyve been stone walled. They have. Tomorrow is three weeks from election day. They certainly have been waiting for this. But even then it came as a bit of a surprise inside biden world. They werent expecting this letter tonight. This opens the door to what theyve already been doing. Hes not been showing down in terms of naming m people but it gives them access to funding and a sense of whats going on inside the administration. Lets take a look at a statement that the wroifd transition sent out tonight. Theres some interesting words when you analyze it. Part of it reads like this in the days ahead the transition officials will begin bheegt the federal officials to discuss the pandemic response, have a full accounting and gain complete understanding of the Trump Administrations efforts to hollow out government agencies. So on the face that kind of sounds like normal words. What theyre saying, the translation is russia, the Nations National security interest, see what is going on, a possible communication between the u. S. And them and hollowing out goth agencies, trying to see what the Trump Administration and the biden teams view has done over the last four years. They believe meetings could begin tomorrow or in the coming days. But their focus is on covid 1, the vaccine plan, of course, and specific scientific informing coming from these states and of course the ultimate meeting that were sure will happen at some appointment, dr. Fauci and joe biden. Theyve nobody each other for so long. You can imagine that happening but there will be meetings at lower levels before that. Don. I want to delve into this a little more. Request you talk about the history making part of it . What do you know . I mean, pretty extraordinary when you look at the number of people, the cabinet appointments that were made today. The official nominations come after he becomes president but when you look at the list of people named already, tony blinken, secretary of state. Hes been a longtime vief of joe biden. Look at the miami for the department of the homeland security, alejandro may horkas. He would over see administration policy. Avril haynes, the first to lead the Intelligence Community here. Janet yellen would be the first to serve as treasury secretary, on and on. Clearly what the biden team is trying to do in style and substance, say theres a new shefb in town, yes, its about these names and biographies of these individuals but also abot specific policy. Don. About people who are well qualified. One of them i have to say is from my neighboring town where i tonight high school. I went to high school in baker, louisiana. Linda thomas greenfield is from there. Hometown lady who did the ambassador to the united nations. Yeah. I hope to get her on to talk about that and talk about baker, louisiana, whats changed and whats still the same. Cnn is learning that President Trump is souring on resume. I mentioned it in the top of the show. Whats this about . It seems hes blaming everybody but himself. We have been saying, come on, Rudy Guiliani over the course of this presidency has not been good for this president and just in the past couple of weeks with all these antics and the court cases and this team, hes just now starting to sour on Rudy Guiliani . Go ahead, katelyn. Its kind of been a territory that theyve fallen into over the last several weeks when really, what Rudy Guiliani has been saying is yes, he may be feeding the president s tendencies here but its the president whos making the decision to amplify these conspiracy theories. They separated themselves from Sidney Powell. Theyre both pushing conspiracy theories about the election without any evidence. So now there are reports that hes souring on Rudy Guiliani. I think we could get to the point where the president is blaming his legal team for the losses that he suffered, even though weve heard from election experts and attorneys saying that it didnt matter which legal team was representing the president , he still did not have a case here. It wouldnt have changed anything of the outcome. That could be where we end up but it ultimately rests with the president. Didnt help that he picked the ones in the clown carr to represent himself, though. Insult to injury. Thank you very much. Ill see you soon. Bringing in roth. I am so happy to have you on thank you so much for joining us, maam. Really preach it. Appreciate it. Good to be with you. Cnn breaking the news that the transition can begin. You signed off on the trump transition. Should the signoff for president elect biden taken so long . Its been more than two weeks since the election was called. It has been. Unfortunately, each dha that goes by is a dha the president ial Transition Team is not getting to work on significant opportunities and efforts. In terms of the election itself, you know, looking at the results in the states that were report and thereby the electoral votes, you would have hoped for this transition to start immediately. Yeah. I want to read part of what President Trump tweeted after he saw the gsa administer emily murphys letter. Im quoting here. With regard to initial protocols and have told my team to do the same. This im sure you will agree this might be the closest thing wheler ever see close to a concession, but biden didnt neat home run neshe didnt need that. She did not. Its understanding that in the apparent winner, being selected and identified. Its not as she points out in