Because of corporate liability. I understand that kind of battle no pandemic. But holding it up and not talking about it for months. With a Record Number of hungry people . Right. Not only hungry people ish . But people who are dying, when, when, you know, theres the spot at the dinner table as im paraphrasing the president elect, excuse me, when theres an empty chair at the dinner table, so many around us for the holidays. So many, not just that folks have died, its because this administration didnt take it seriously and we cant get together. Because this administration politcized it, he said is, i cannot see wearing a mask. Let people go back out, its the flu. Because this president and the sycophants and the folks in the media, this is why we are where we are right now. Theres no other way of putting it. No other way around out. I know people will say, don, stop blaming. Its the truth. Theres one side who said okay, we have a pandemic. People are dying. You should wear a mask. You should social distance. You should do all of the things and as your guests said before, the people who dont want to buy in to it. They want to blame the virus. They want to blame the people who are making the rules. They have been told to. But they are wrong. They have the wrong enemy. The enemy is actually themselves and the person, the people who have been lying to you for months. That is who you should be mad at. That is why we are here right now. But, and yet, you have that doctor, he is from italy and now the kansas, the american dream, he has to stop doing his job because the politicians wont follow the science. And you have mckinney who is still fighting to stay there, and she is being targeted for doing these things. What are the retrumplicans, mcconnell and other ones, they set quiet and let it happen. And they are delaying relief. Doing people dirty for their leverage. I just call them the trumplican party, you do not need to put re in front of this, they are not republicans. They are not conservative in the taddal w a in the traditional way that conservatives believe. I agree. They are trumplic nam krmptr why do you saying it like that makes more sense, than republican is the word. And now they are retrumplicans. They are trumplicans, nothing believe in has to do with re the re in republic ans you just like your own idea better. They have nothing to do with the republic. They dont believe in the republic. I would not give them that. Its closer to the word republican. You say retrumplican, i say trumplican. Pleaseask me to leave. Get out. I love you, don lemon. You are right on, we have to be nicer and you have to live in reality to get to that niceness. We have to fight to be better if we want to be better. Yes, sir, we will see you soon. We will talk about it, how are you . Doing okay . I know, i know, i know, close, hang on. Help is on the way. This is cnn tonight, im don lemon, from the floor of the u. S. Senate the breaking news s is donald trump the lost, six weeks after election day. Finally for the first time acknowledged that joe biden won and is president elect. The Electoral College has spoken. So today, i want to congratulate president elect joe biden. The president elect is no stranger to the senate is. He is devoted himself to Public Service is ffor many years. Its the people who spoke. And it was six weeks ago. But thanks for catching up, anyways. Bind, of cours biden, as usual, taking the high road today. I had a good conversation with Mitch Mcconnell, i called had him to thank him for the congratulations. Told him that we disagree on a lot of things that i think we can Work Together on. We have always been straight with one another. And we agreed we would get together sooner than later. Well, its definitely later. Since is it took the represent are c since it took the republicans all this time. Wasted a lot of time, havent we . Just over nonsense. More than 71,000 americans have died of the coronavirus since election day. While we wasted time with nonsense. It has been so long that biden has most of his cabinet selected, i want you to listen to mitt romney and hear what he is saying about what the other republicans are saying today does not go far enough. You will see more and more people indicate that joe biden is the president elect. I think a different question and important question is how many republicans will say that what the president is saying is simply wrong and dangerous . That the continued attack on the election system and the calls that suggest that its been fraudulent or stolen, that these things are not accurate, they are not true. Listen, im glad he said is it. He should just say that these things are lies. And they are crazy. And someone needs to tell the president all of those people that, and they need to say it as well. The president is lying, and what he is doing is crazy. And senator Lamar Alexander who is retiring so he gets to drop the emperors new clothes wry routine said that its time for the president to put the country first. Now, i think for the good of the country, the president should put the country first, take pride in his accomplishments. Congratulate the president elect and help him get off to a good start. Thats how we do things in our country and how we try to show the rest of the world the way we operate. So theres one problem with that, you want to guess . The problem is President Trump almost never put the country first. Never done it and its clear that he is now so delusional that the chances of that happening, zero. Nor the rest of the republicans for the rest of the republicans, it is too little, too late and you would be right. But thanks to all of the damage that they have done to our democra democracy, denying the truth that was staring them all in the face. America needs to hear them admit the truth just as often as the country heard them dodging. We are counting and at this point, 21 republicans have called joe biden president elect had. 21. Or acknowledged that he has senators, excuse me, have acknowledged that, that he won the election. Called him the president elect. Even senator ron johnson acknowledging that today, that joe biden is the president elect. When the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel sixtied hy asked him election was legitimate . He said, that he has not seen anything that shows him that the National Overall results would be overturned. Come on, man, where are these peoples backbones or brains, really . Which kind of makes you wonder, why is he still planning to hold a socalled Election Fraud hearing tomorrow . Why is he doing it . With ken star no less in attendance. Or maybe, you know, we all know exactly why he is doing that. For an audience of one, still, i dont know why, for an audience of one why . One, who is holed up. He seem s to be back down, as i said, ish, asked if he accepted bidens win. Did not exactly do that. Its not for me to do. Well, heres what i would say. Obviously we did our thing in florida. The college voted. You know, whats going to happen is going to happen. But yeah, that happened. I dont know what that was. Why is it not for you to do . Why . Is florida not one of the United States of america. That will have a President Joe Biden . Of course it is for you to do. But you wont. You cant. I guess too afraid of getting the same mean tweet treatment that Governor Kemp is getting and its sad. And let me show you a portrait in cowardice tonight. Now that joe biden won the election. Hmmm had, that was a House Minority leader kevin mccarthy. Could not even manage to acknowledge the question about the reality that joe biden is the president elect. Signed on to that lawsuit that was struck down by the Supreme Court last week, the one that would have thrown out the votes of millions americans in michigan, and wisconsin and pennsylvania, and georgia. The president elect had something to say about that in atlanta today. Slamming republican senators david purdue, and Kelly Loeffler, for trying to disinfranchise their own voters. Two republican senators fully embraced what texas was telling the Supreme Court. That they fully embraced nullifying nearly 5 million georgia votes. You might want to remember that come january 5th. I will try to be generous here in the spirit of the season. Maybe your senators were just confused. Maybe they think they represent texas. And then, theres how do i describe this, carnival of lies that is the white house. Well the current president ered doors, nursing his wounded pride, his press secretary is acting like the election did not happen. Acting like she is not about to be out of a job. Does the president acknowledge that joe biden is the president elect, does he have plans to invite him here to the white house. The president is involved in ongoing litigation, yesterday was one step in the constitution process. I will refer are you to the campaign for more on that. Would refer you to the campaign. Still pursuing ongoing lit are obligati litigation at the moment. Do you know she worked for girl bye. No other. Girl bye. Bubye. So much disinformation from the podium. Every day, its like, comes out, so is much propaganda, critic e criticizes the media, this what you should be covering. You think we got this, you used to sit here with us on the set. I think we got it. When you sat here with us, you thought we had it. You were happy to be here and now we dont know what we are doing. Girl, bye. The president and his allies have lost at least 50 court cases so much losing. So what are they doing . Why are they acting like they are living in in an alternate reality and universe . You know what they say, follow the money. The Trump Campaign has sent at least 494 fundraising emails and 168 texts to supporters since election day. What you are saying right now, that is rhetoric for fundraisi fundraising. Its a grift, its a fundraising pitch from certain individual who is want to stay in the grift. He is a republican, listen to the man he knows what he is talking about. And while all of this is going on, the current president is not actually being president at all. Not doing his job. He is fighting so hard to hang on to. Why would you fight so hard to hang on to a job that you are not even doing. In the six weeks since election day. The president has spent more than half of the time with no public events. Not a single intel briefing listed on the daily guidance since october 2nd. He has done nothing about the suspected russian hack of multiple federal agencies from homeland security, to agricultural and commerce. He has done nothing about the stimulus deal. Millions americans desperately need just to keep their heads above water in a pandemic. As this pandemic ravages our economy. So, what, what is he doing . What is he doing . The president who clearly needs some attention because can somebody give him attention. Somebody in the white house who knows him . Or someone . He is holding what promises to be a dear leader style cabinet tomorrow. Rolling back efficiency standards for showerheads because thats what is important, that is what this president cares about. Showerheads, you take a shower, the water does not come out. You want to wash your hands the water does not come out. What do you do . You stand there longer or take a shower longer . Because my hair, i dont know about you, it has to be perfect. You turn on the shower, if you are like me, you cannot wash your beautiful hair properly. You waste 20 minutes longer, please, come out, the water, it drips. Right . A lot of people come up, thank you, sir, they had sets that did not give water. Showers that the d s thas tha s give water. Its a great thing. Now we have water pouring out of the showerheads. We have done a lot of things that nobody talks about or writes about, its about quality of life. From the man, who will you know, and then tell you its raining. Hang on, people. Hang on. Just a little bit longer. 36 days until Inauguration Day until the end of the president s term and he cares about showerhe head showerhe showerheads and he is fighting a battle that he lost. Is he going to keep living in his alternate reality, do they have a stimulus deal . We are checking. [narrator] grubhub perks give you deals on all the food that makes you boogie. upbeat music get the food you love with perks from [crowd] grubhub. 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And in the words of Mitch Mcconnell, he said, moments ago, when i asked him about this he said that theres been significant progress, he said im optimistic that we will be able to complete an understanding some time soon. I asked him what will be in the deal, will it be less than a trillion dollars, the way the talks have been going . He said, i will not get in the details but we are getting closer. This is after he and mccarthy met for 90 minutes and mccarthy, i said, are you getting a deal tonight . And he said, we are close. Its going well, he said, i think we have built a lot of trust, i think we are moving in the right direction and theres a possibility of getting it finalized and getting it done as soon as possible. He said that they are exchanging last minute proposals. Now, the question still is, what is in the deal and the republicans are talking so is favorably about. They have had the outlines of the deal, they are talking extension of jobless benefits particularly the ones expiring and discussion of 300 a week in jobless benefits and discussion of 300 billion for emergency loan for small businesses. As well as money for vaccine distribution. And money for schools as well, other issues also important extending the federal eviction moratorium, and deferring student loan payments. Those are the main issues. The big sticking points have been whether to provide money for state and local governments for, that have aid for some of the cash strapped local governments, democrats are demanding it and republicans resisted, republicans pushed for lawsuit protections for businesses and others that opened in the pandemic and democrats resisted what the republicans asked for. We expect those provisions have been set aside. We have not got the word on that, but all signs are is that its dropped and they are settling on a more narrow package, potentially under a trillion dollars maybe even a little less than that. So, we will see ultimately what the details are, but very positive signs coming out of washington right now, from republicans after the closed door meeting, we will wait to hear what the democrats say at the moment. But the time is ticking, don, because friday theres a deadline that they need to extend funding to keep the government open, and they want to tie the covid relief package on the must pass funding bill by friday. Can they do it . Its possible, they are going to need a lot of cooperation and of course, we are going have to see the details here, don. Lets hope they can do it, theres a lot of folks hurting and counting on this. Thank you in washington on capitol hill with the latest. We will check back. I want to turn to Mitch Mcconnell. Finally acknowledging, finally that joe biden is the president elect saying the Electoral College is spoken and congratulating biden on his win, now, if only President Trump would do it and put the good of the country ahead of himself. Lets discuss. Im probably asking too much, im sure. Good to see you both. Good to see you. John, we are just 36 days until biden is inaugurated as the next president of the United States. Is the rest of the country moving on, and leaving President Trump in his alternate reality . There may be business getting done as was just reported. How about that . Shake the magic 8 ball, signs point to yes. I mean, look it is great news that republicans and democrats are actually dealing or trying to come up with a deal on covid. Its great news that Mitch Mcconnell acknowledged reality six weeks after the election. But, but just a reality check, you know how long it took one day. And that was an ehekz that he lost the popular vote by almost 3 million. So, yes, republicans are beginning to fall in line with reality. But you still have a hard core group that is going to believe Donald Trumps lie because they are invested in it. Financially, they are afraid of the base. They want his blessing. They are afraid of a tweet. Natural fever breaks you will not see anything resembling until functioning in washington. What you described is a definition of entitled,