In the meantime, this morning, the outgoing president refuses to concede. Sources tell cnn that top aides are suggesting that the defeated president , President Trump, hold rallies to drum up bogus conspiracies about election fraud. We have new information this morning that political appointees within the Trump Administration are so far refusing to sign off on provisions that would help the biden transition. Lets start in wilmington, delaware. Cnns jessica dean covering president elect joseph biden. Whats going on this morning. They have this morning is an advance of the vaccine news, which is really giant, releasing the names of their coronavirus advisory panel. This is what they want to focus on in this transition. That is exactly right, john. With this announcement, theyre really telegraphing how seriously theyre going to be taking this pandemic planning for when president elect Biden Takes Office in january. It had been the cornerstone to their Campaign Message and now theyre really taking action. After winning the election, president elect joe biden now faces the challenge of tackling the coronavirus pandemic as new confirmed cases reached record levels across the United States. Our work begins with getting covid under control. And he plans to start that work right away, promising to take the crisis more seriously than President Trump. The biden harris transition website already laying out a sevenpoint plan, responding to the virus. Including free and reliable testing for all americans. And working with mayors and governors to implement mask mandates. The president elect announcing a new Coronavirus Task force this morning, leading the effort, three cochairs. Former Surgeon General vivek murthy, former fda commissioner, David Kessler, and Yale Universitys dr. Marcella nunez smith. That plan will be built on bedrock science. It will be constructed out of compassion, empathy, and concern. Reporter Health Experts say the Biden Administration will enter the white house at an extremely difficult point in the crisis. By the time that the Biden Harris Administration takes over, this virus is going to have already run rampant through communities across the United States. Reporter as biden aims to fight the coronavirus, President Trump is focusing on fighting the election results. Still insisting without evidence there is widespread voter fraud working against him. Despite no proof to support allegations of widespread fraud or illegal voting in the United States, some of his Top Republican allies backing the president s refusal to concede. At this point, we do not know who has prevailed in the election. The media is desperately trying to get everyone to coronate joe biden as the next president , but thats not how it works. Trump has not lost. Do not concede, mr. President. Fight hard. Reporter bidens team says its avoiding the distractions and will continue moving forward. And the president elect is looking to use executive action to reverse some of the Trump Administrations policies on his first day in office. I think the white house has made clear what their strategy is here. And that they are going to continue to participate and push forward these flailing and in many respects, baseless legal strategies. But the people are the folks that decide elections in this country. And the people have spoken. And back to the coronavirus advisory board. You mentioned that rick bright is a member of that advisory board. Of course, hes the whistleblower tfrom the Trump Administration who said that his early warnings about the coronavirus and the pandemic were not heeded by the Trump Administration and ultimately led to his ouster. So quite the contrast there between the Trump Administration handled this pandemic and how the Biden Harris Administration is looking to handle it, by putting rick bright in that spot, alisyn, joe biden has always said that he wanted to let science and experts lead the way on this. And we see based on his advisory council, that looks like what he is doing. Jessica, thank you very much. Joining us now, we have cnn political analyst, maggie haberman, a National Politics reporter for the New York Times. Maggie, i know youre just hearing the news out of pfizer, as we are. They believe this is selfreported, but they believe that their Early Vaccine data shows that its 90 effective, i imagine that President Trump will seize on this today. What might that look like . Actually not positive that he will, alisyn. I think it depend on where he is in his feelings about the election and as we know that he has continued to say that he believes that he won and it was taken from him and so i think thats where his focus is. I think that prior to the election, his focus was very much on a vaccine and his hopes that it would come before the election. Look, i certainly think that its a Promising Development and in that vein, the sitting president as president , who has talked a lot about with anger that he believes that joe biden and Kamala Harris were diminishing peoples faith in the vaccine. One would hope that he would come out and talk about this development. And he might. But at the moment, alisyn, he has no events on his schedule and the vaccine and the virus have just not been top of mind for him. But it is top of mind for a lot of people in this country and it is what the new president will be inheriting. Ill see how that plays out. I would say its a Fascinating Development in this year of so many developments that a week after the election, pfizer says their vaccine is 90 effective, we need to find out more information. This is day where the biden transition, the president elect has come out with his, you know, coronavirus advisory panel, including in recognizable names, dr. Vivek murthy, michael osterhome, zeke emanuel. The biden team clearly wanting to say, we are going to take this seriously, even if the president doesnt. Well start showing our seriousness now. Talking about it now. It will be interesting to see how they relate to this new information and process this new Vaccine Information today. I think thats right and theres a lot still to play out, as you say. Its going to have to be reviewed, this vaccine. The biden team, i imagine, is actually going to be pretty encouraging about it. As we know, biden has had this rollout today of what his Coronavirus Task force would look like, among the people that he has named, dr. Rick bright, who was dismissed by the Trump Administration. So i think its hard to untangle any of these things from each other, john. But again, this is a Promising Development. Maggie, lets talk about whats happening inside the white house in terms of the transition. Over the weekend, we saw the trump team launch a slew of lawsuits. I mean, i should say, since election day. And he and his biggest supporters and surrogates are out there saying, this is not over. The president will fight on, and so, whats going to happen here . I think exactly that, alisyn. I think theyre going to keep fighting on until it is clear that there is no more road to fight. The big question here is, they have claimed, and its a specific subset of they, because this is not everyone around the president , it is Rudy Giuliani and a handful of people who are encouraging this, but what they have said is, theres widespread evidence of fraud and they have yet to offer up the evidence. They claim that they will do that today, but it has raised serious questions and skepticism, candidly, that there is such evidence, you know, it would be a massive amount of fraud that theyre alleging, to even overcome the president s deficit in some of these states. So i expect that this is going to keep going, but judges have been very, very skeptical about these lawsuits that have been filed so far. And have said that there is not a basis for the claims that are being made. But a lot of this seems to be, alisyn, about conflating a Public Relations issue with a legal issue, which the president does a lot. And weve seen him do that over the years repeatedly. He doesnt like the idea of losing a race. Not to be sure, and ive talked about this with you before, its not entirely sure he wanted a second term, but he doesnt want to be seen as a loser, and this may kick up enough dust where he can convince his supporters not to believe the result, and that has dangerous implications for the country and the next president. And allows him to sort of depart. If you could talk about that more, maggie, i think we know how much the president cares or doesnt care about providing a smooth transition and what that means for the success of the country. But is there nanyone, is there anyone inside the white house whos raising these concerns who cares about the message this sends to the world, the message it sends within the country about the feelings, the passions, the emotions . If not immediately inside the white house, john, there are people on the periphery of the white house and people who are close to the president who are concerned. Within the white house, there is sort of a feeling of being at a standstill. This is what the president wants to do. I know there has been some reporting that Jared Kushner, his soninlaw, was telling him to concede. Thats candidly not my reporting. I think Jared Kushner has been a bit all over the map about what he thinks is the right course of action. But he is very much committed right now to following this path that his fatherinlaw wants. On saturday, instead of going with a bunch of the Campaign Aides to go brief his fatherinlaw on how narrow the path was, he sent them without joining them and told them he would be part of a leader conversation if the president moved to that point. And as you say, theres not a ton of concern about what this looks like to the world or what message this sends to the president s supporters about supporting the incoming president. Weve had bitterly fought contests before, we have certainly have had supporters of one president , including the current one, excuse me, detra detractors of the current one who didnt think he was a legitimate president. But the country is undergoing enormous challenges right now. And thats why its a different moment. Maggie, youve reported on donald trump so long, you know the players as well as anybody in and around the white house. How does this end. It ends with him continuing to say it was stolen from him and him walking out the door. And this idea that he was going to barricade himself into the white house has never been real, based on my reporting. But what i do think hes going to do is, you know, theres serious questions, will he ever invite joe biden to the white house for the standard meeting after the election. And joe biden is a former Vice President , doesnt quite need it the same way other people might, but it does send a signal. Im also not sure joe biden would want to go to the white house, given how many coronavirus outbreaks there have been. Is there even going to be a normal kind of an inauguration, given the coronavirus . Theres a lot of questions about this moment, but i think that that will give the president an opportunity to basically continue making what has been, so far, baseless claims about fraud, and saying it was taken from him, but then leaf. And i think you will see, alisyn, depending on how this goes, you could see him reengage and Start Holding rallies or see him taking a very long trip to maralago in florida. I know that the inauguration might not be a traditional one, maggie, but any reporting on whether or not he will show up . Nobody expects him to show up. Now, that could change. At the inauguration . At the inauguration. Right now, nobody around him expects him to show up. Part of that is because theyre not thinking that far out right now. These are transitiditions about incoming president they dont want to consider, but nobody ive spoken to thinks its top of mind or a realistic look at the moment. I like that you can still be shocked. I guess i would not be surprised, but it would be historic. John adams didnt stick around for jeffersons inauguration and its been talked about for 200 years. These things tend to make an impact. Maggie, everyone should go check out the New York Times and check out ben smiths article about you today, because its wonderful and well deserved and i hope thanks, john. People get a chance to read it. Shes mad. Shes very mad. Ben is a friend of yours. Its always nice to have a friend of yours write an article about you. My unbiased friend, which he acknowledged in the story. Well deserved. Thank you. Control of the senate is still undecided. It all comes down to a pair of crucial races in georgia. So how is the democratic candidate, jon ossoff, feeling about his chance this morning . 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For Vice President biden to prevail here after whats been a decade of organizing and voter registration, a lot of this work led by stacey abrams, these huge battles, some won, some lost, weve had in georgia over the last ten years. And now to have two Senate Runoffs for Senate Control with so much at stake with this virus still raging out of control, with an urgent need to get economic and Financial Relief to families in my state and across the country, we have the wind at our backs and a great sense of promise and opportunity here. How will it impact the race for the next two months, that the control of the senate hangs in the balance . Is this more about National Implications or implications in georgia . Well, of course, its about both. And theyre inextricably linked. There are hundreds of thousands of american lives that depend upon a strong, coherent response to this pandemic informed by medical expertise, precisely what weve been lacking for the last eight months with catastrophic consequences. And there are millions of American Families and businesses and families and businesses here in georgia whose livelihoods and prosperity depend upon a strong and coherent economic policy. Which has also been lacking for the last eight months. So this is about whether we are going to meet this moment with the strength and discipline and focus required to unite the country and rise to a challenge such as an unprecedented Public Health crisis and an ongoing economic crisis. You brought up joe biden, who right now is leading in the state of georgia, by about 10,000 votes. This will likely be a runoff, because the Trump Campaign will request it. But it is likely or at least highly likely, highly possible that he will win that state. He received about 100,000 more votes than you did. Why do you think that is . Well, we saw some dropoff from the top of the ballot, we assume votes go to libertarian candidates, but the bottom line is that this is the strongest democratic turnout ever in the history of this state. My opponent, senator david perdue, who enters this runoff badly damaged by his own misconduct, by his failed response to the covid19 pandemic, failed