Division and malice. It is the spiel. It is a con. Only to benefit his own coffers as followers continue to donate for a cause for an alleged billionaire, despite the fact that that cause is already over. But, again, trump, i argue to you, is the least of our problems. My focus tonight with you is on those who remain, those are empowered his deception. Whose silence should deafen all ears craving decency. The gop is no more. You are nothing but retrumplicans now. If im wrong, where have you been for a month . Trump has never produced a shred of proof of any suggestion, and you know it. Rudy, the other guess jesters. No republican in charge says differently. And you know it. The guy you put in place at the federal level to secure the federal election says there was no substantial fraud. Even bill barr. An attorney general that will be remembered for his bending over backwards to protect the president , even he says the election should stand. And what do we get from you . Instead of echoing the obvious, you join trump in tearing down those who dare to defy. But it is you, men and women, who are in trouble. You have traded loyalty to oath and office to fealty to a toxic man. Who am i talking about . You got mcconnell. You got mccarthy, of course. Thats specific examples. Marco rubio, senator from florida. He sounded the sirens during the campaign. Remember when he looked at you and talked about the Great American of donald trump. A con artist is about to take over the Republican Party and the conservative movement and we have to put a stop to it. Donald trump is a con artist. I will never allow a con artist to take control of the party of lincoln and reagan. Who knew it would be far from his lowest moments . Never say never. Rubio has proven to be every bit of small as trump suggested by calling him little marco. He quotes the bible all the time, but never speaks truth to power. Senator cruz urging the Supreme Court to help overturn bidens victory. He offers no solid basis. This is about the loose ground of an awkward appeal to trumpers who, by the way, will never accept you. The chairman of the Homeland Security committee, senator ron johnson, urging the attorney general to show everybody, ready, show everybody your evidence there was no mass fraud. Are you serious . Senator, please show us evidence that you are not a fool. Lets make this easy. How about asking trump for the evidence that there is fraud . None of them has even asked ever. We know why. They know there is no proof, and they know that it is nothing to do with the truth for trump or for them. You want the truth of how they would see this situation . Just change an r to a d and go back four years. Listen to what the person steering what was the Republican Party, the head of the rnc, ron mcdaniel, said about exactly what shes selling right now. Recount efforts in michigan by jill stein. She was the Green Party Candidate back then. Our friends at cnns k file, they find you when you defy, and they dug this up. In our state, about 1 of the vote is now going to come from michigan taxpayers up to 2 million just so that we can do a recount that will not change anything and she has not shown any fraud or inconsistencies with our election system. It is just something she thinks we need to do. We have integrity in our system. The votes were certified on monday. There has been no evidence of any election issues, fraud or hacking. I think this is a wasted effort. I think it is unfortunate that shes putting the voters of michigan through this process that im confident that in the end donald trump will remain the victor in michigan. Whats changed . Just her interests, not the circumstances. Not a shred of proof. Thats why she and the others are retrumplicans. Shame on you. Trumps disgraced former National Security adviser is now openly encouraging the president to declare martial law and hold a new election. The tweet is here from flynn. How do republicans respond to this . Silence. The suggestion of a coup, silence. Overthrowing democracy is now patriotic . Oh, vaunted protectors of the flag. Be honest and know this. The only flag you have waived for the last four years has been white, a sign of simple surrender. And look where it got you. Sydney powell, trump lawyererish kicked off the team now urging georgia, dont vote. Protest the States November election results. Another trump loyalist, lynn wood joining her, rallying the crowd to chant lockup the republican governor who certified bidens victory there. Now what are you going to do . You see, when you stand for nothing, your party will fall when faced with anything. And thats what we are seeing in realtime. But this is no time, just to point out the obvious about their problems. There must be light in the darkness. And there is a chance for crisis to allow both parties to show their best. When times are at their worst, people Pay Attention and hope for the best. What will we see . History gives us hope. There was division when fdr faced the depression. The new deal was not an easy sell. There was a lot of rejection of the new deal. How did fdr rally the country and thus its representatives . A reminder that governments job boils down to Pretty Simple securing of four freedoms for the person people, illustrated beautifully by normal rockwell and they live throughout history. Everybody thinks thats lincoln a standing up, right . Freedom from want. Freedom from fear. Just the first two alone demand immediate action. This country has not faced fear or want the way it will over the next few months. Not in a generation. The head of the cdc is finally using his voice, warning that the darkest months in u. S. Health history are coming. We just surpassed 100,000 current covid hospitalizations, highest number since the pandemic began. Today we broke another record for deaths. The highest number of a new number of deaths in a day. More than 2,600 lives lost. The United States could be close to 450,000 deaths before february. We cant do better than this . Oh, dont worry. There is a vaccine. When . Not for months. And who told you a vaccine is a cure. Do you get sick, you get the vaccine and youre better . Thats not how it works. We need to rally to the remedies that we control. And our biggest need is leadership. Congress must shake free from trump trauma. Remember what once inspired you to seek office. Do it now. I know you watch the show. Thank you. So allow me to say to you directly, what will you do now . Not weeks from now. The answer may define how you will be republicaned. Remember this. I guarantee you people like me doing this job all over this country will never let people forget who stepped up and who fell back. Now is the time. The challenge is great. The stakes are high, and you are aware. For me and my audience, there is only one direction. Its to take it on. So lets get after it. Chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta joins us now. You are finally hearing from the head of the cdc what he should have been saying, frankly, for months. We got the politics but there is a time for bravery. He is now saying the darkest period in u. S. Health history may be in the coming months. Have you ever heard anything like that . And how might it take shape . Well, you know, i havent heard anything like that. Frankly, hes comparing what is happening now to what happened 100 years ago. And, you know, were obviously a very Different Society now. We have icus, we have hospital care, we have vaccines on the horizon. Yet, these death rates are approximating what we saw 100 years ago and thats what hes reacting to. These numbers, chris, we have seen a million cases, roughly, a week of new coronavirus cases. So its hard to fathom, and we know what trends after that, the hospitalizations which are now over 100,000 and then a few weeks later the deaths. We dont know where this is going to peak at this point. If you look at the models, they say it peaks at the end of this year, beginning of next year, but the real question is how long does it say there then . How long does it plateau . Chris, i got to tell you, i dug into these models closely and where are contingent on this idea there will be statewide mandates that either stay in place or go into place over the next couple of months. If those things dont happen, the number of people they project could die is 650,000 by march 1st. That just gives you an idea. It is like that boiling frog. We get used to hearing the numbers and hospitalizations and hearing about ambulance systems that are starting to fall apart and field hospitalizations in rhode island, high death rates in wisconsin, Surge Capacity in california. I dont know how you could describe this as any worse, but it still can get worse than this. Hes makiing an appeal. There is one basis of pushback for people. You mentioned it early on as a reason of concern. People will say, hey, look, i get it. People are getting sick. Nobody dies. Nobody dies. Look at the health rates per case, per capita. It is so small. Yeah, 230,000, 250,000, 300,000, thats a lot. But look at how many other things we ignore in the society. They kill tons of people, cigarettes, booze. But now you want to shut down the economy that nobody dies from when you look at it from a big scale. What do you say to that . Well, i mean, theyre wrong. Thats what i say. First of all, this could be the second leading cause of death in this country as things are shaping up now. It could be that only Heart Disease would lead to more deaths. This could surpass that, chris, for a disease that didnt even exist really a year ago. So thats part of it. The other part of it is that the vast majority of these deaths are preventable. The vast majority. We have gone through this so many times comparing this to other countries around the world. They dont have a therapeutic or a vaccine we dont have. But their death rates are a minuscu minuscule. People die of all these other things. These are these deaths of despair even prior to this pandemic. What were seeing here is an unmasking of all these terrible things. We are a more vulnerable country because we have so many preexisting conditions and comorbidities. But it is an incredible source of frustration because the numbers we know on the screen every day, they didnt need to happen, the vast majority of them. I hesitate when i say that because i talked to so many families that have lost loved ones. But what can you call it at this point. These are stupid deaths as the Doctors Without Borders call them. So thats what i tell them. We have another big, big challenge. People the vaccine as an unqualified good. I dont. Theyre not going to have enough of the vaccine. Starting with hospital workers and Long Term Care elderly recipients. But hospitals in what areas . What kind of hospital workers . Which Long Term Care facilities. The rich ones . Based on color . Based on class . These are big choices that we wont be able to monitor. Am i getting it right or wrong . This is going to be a resourced challenged distribution process. This is something that everybody wants or the vast majority of people want and there is not enough. So how this is going to be handled is i mean, it is unprecedented what were going through right now. I hope many of the things youre mentioning in terms of the institutional structural biases, i hope they dont perm nate into the distribution of this vaccine, but i think it is a real concern. Im curious to see what happens in the u. K. Over this next week. Hiccups that maybe we couldnt even anticipate. But youre right. I will say this. The states are going to have to make some decisions in terms of triaging these vaccines. We know that. But Health Care Workers across the board, there is 21 million in various locations. Not all of them are the same in terms of their risk for covid. Im a health care worker. Im a neurosurgeon. I dont primarily take care of covid patients. I have colleagues that do. Theyre at the highest risk. So these types of triage decisions will be made not only at the state level but at the institutional level and perhaps even within these longterm care facilities as well. It is not going to be perfect, chris. This issue of as quickly as this vaccine is going to be manufactured, it is going to be distributed. If you get a batch wrong because there is 20 to 25 Quality Control checks they have to go through, lets say one doesnt make it, well, all of a sudden, you will be even farther behind. There will be stutter starts here and there may be some inequities that hopefully get addressed quickly. Right now as has been the case for the last nine months there isnt a National Leadership here. There is no national plan. People are sort of left to scrap and figure it out for themselves, beg and cajole and lead for these vaccines and figure out how to best distribute them. It is no way to do it. The virus hurts the most vulnerable and the system tends to not put them first either. Well stay on it. Thats what our job is. Dr. Sanjay gupta, thank you very much. You got it. All right. So the obvious became news again when bill barr came out to definitively say as the attorney general of the United States, bears no proof of widespread election fraud. I know. I saw the tweets. They tried to clean it up. Not yet. But if any comes, hell tell always of us. But he doesnt have any. Thats the point. 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So what do you think of my apprisal of what has happened to your party, a month of silence as this president , our president , its nominee says the election was a fraud and puts up not a skcintilla of proof. I think it was on that network. About the week of the election where i said my gut, my brain, my experience tells me that joe biden won the election. And since that time, i have seen no evidence to change my position, and we now have the attorney general confirming the same thing. I also said publically that i struggled with the fact that the attorney general given recent criticism or concerns about mailin ballots was directing people at the department of justice to do an investigation about possible mass fraud in this election. And to me, the timing was unfortunate. But i think were in a place now where the transition is moving forward, and i think come january 20th President Biden and his team will be ready to administer and govern this country, and we need him to be ready. And i think he will be ready. But how we get there is predictive of where we go from there. And you have mitch mcconnell, head of the senate, obviously Senior Member of your party, refusing to say that biden is president elect. Other people in office will take the question. They say, well, we have to see where the litigation goes. They know it is going nowhere. In 2016, they dealt with this then in michigan and then in other states and they shot it down, the same way it is being shot down now. What does it mean to you that they refuse to state the obvious . Is it just fear of this president or is your party no more . Well, i cant speak to what the party is today. From my perspective, chris, as i just said, i think whats really important here is that the transition is moving forward. I think come january 20th, there will be a transfer of power. We will have a new president. And we will be governed by new policies. And so i think that right now, yes,