Some historymaking choices. All of these nominees think they can get confirmed in the senate. You are seeing a team develop that i have great confidence in. Reporter clear signs americans are not heeding the cdcs warning to stay home. You will see a surge, superimposed upon a surge. I would just urge everyone, please, cancel your nonessential travel. Were going to see much higher rates of hospitalizations and deaths in the weeks to come. This is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Good morning, everyone. This is new day. It is tuesday, november 24th. 6 00, here, in new york. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. Welcome to the first, official morning of the biden transition. Welcome to the first morning, where President Trump is waking up functionally acknowledging that he lost the election, which he did, by a lot. Voting in that election ended three weeks ago, today. Joe biden was declared the winner more than two weeks ago. But it took until a few hours ago, for the head of the General Services administration to come to that conclusion. Ascertaining that joe biden is president elect which finally and officially frees up millions of dollars in resources and opens the doors for agencies to start cooperating. Including, and especially, on the pandemic. Its a big moment for the nation. A tweet in the president s name, declared that it is in the best interest of the country to begin the initial protocols of transitioning power. Now, the clean syntax and multisi multisi multisill labbic language, but a senior republican to the white house tells cnn this is as close to a concession as you may get from trump. Indeed, he seemed to backtrack, overnight. But, you know what . Its effectively irrelevant. Whats done is done. We have more reporting on what a truly eventful day it was among the president and his advisers. Okay. So meanwhile, president elect joe biden will formally introduce his historic cabinet this afternoon. It includes the first woman as treasury secretary and as intelligence chief. The first latino and an immigrant as Homeland Security sa secretary. And they join a list of Career Foreign Service and National Security officials from bidens inner circle. Meanwhile, as millions of americans make their thanksgiving plans, dr. Anthony fauci is warning that Holiday Travel and gatherings could trigger a, quote, surge upon a surge. Well get into what that means. On monday, the United States, again, set a record for hospitalizations for the 14thconsecutive day. So, lets begin our coverage with cnns arlette saenz. She is live in wilmington, delaware. It truly is a new day there, arlette. It is, allison and john, good morning. And 16 days after president elect joe biden was declared the winner of the 2020 race, the biden transition has finally gotten that green light they have been waiting for. And that is for the formal transition process to begin. But, even as this transition process is getting officially started, it doesnt mean that President Trump or the white house have accepted his defeat. After a 16day standoff by the trump administration, the transition to president elect joe biden can formally begin. President trump is still refusing to concede. The General Services administration is now acknowledging biden as the apparent winner of the election. The agencys trumpappointed administrator, emily murphy, initially stonewalled giving biden access to resources that should have been available to him as president elect. Including, coronavirus data, intelligence briefings, and over 6 million in funding. This delay, while the president tries to overturn his loss by fighting the Election Results with the help of his legal team. It has been clear, since november 3rd, that the president s legal team has absolutely zero evidence of any wrongdoing. The bottom line is they lost. Reporter but hours after michigan certified bidens victory by over 150,000 votes, monday, murphy sent the president elect a letter. Writing, she made her decision independently and adding she was never directly or indirectly pressured by any executivebranch official. Including, those who work at the white house. I hope michigan serves as an example. We were obviously under tremendous pressure. Our republican colleagues were called to the white house, and they resisted. I think we all need to remember that transition isnt just a political thing. Its about National Security and protecting our homeland. Reporter trump indicating he was involved in the decision. Sending a series of tweets saying he is recommending that emily and her team do what needs to be done with initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same. Meantime, bidens team calls the move a needed step to begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track. Certainly, important moment and it should have happened three weeks ago. But we are here now and were going to be forward looking. Reporter biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris are expected to formally introduce nominees for key Foreign Policy and National Security posts, later today. Bringing new and old faces like alejandro mayorkas, bidens pick for Homeland Security secretary. John kerry for special president ial envoy for climate. And avril haines for director of national intelligence. Two sources tell cnn hes also chosen former Federal Reserve chairman, janet yellen, for treasury secretary. And biden is expected to name some members of his Economic Team next week. But in the meantime, these names that were seeing from biden, also, signal some historic picks. You will have the first latino, potentially, leading the department of Homeland Security. And also, the first woman leading the intelligence community. And a little later today, biden and his Vice President elect Kamala Harris will be introducing their nominees to the American Public. It will be very interesting to see that. Arlette saenz in wilmington. Thank you so much for being there for us. To be clear, it should not be forgotten that the president worked hard to overturn the results of the election. To throw out democratic votes. And by that, i mean small d. People who voted. Millions, across the country. He wanted them tossed. But, thats basically over, now. Even if the president refuses to use the word concede. Cnns jeremy diamond, live, at the white house with how we got to this really big point. Jeremy. Yeah, john, listen. Its been three weeks since election day and three weeks of the president hunkering down inside the white house. Bitterly, refusing to accept his loss here and watching as one Court Challenge after the next was either dismissed in the courts or withdrawn by his legal team or the legal team of his allies. More than two dozen cases, at that. And ultimately, it seems that the final straw for the gsa administrator was the certification in michigan and the president s loss in a key case in federal court over the weekend. But the president suggesting that he had something to do with this, in reality, emily murphy said that she arrived at this decision, by herself. The question is how did the president arrive at this decision to allow this transition to proceed . To not stand in the way . Sources close to the white house telling us this is perhaps the closest that we will get to a trump concession. Him allowing this transition to move forward. One source close to the white house calling this a blaring wakeup call. Another saying that it is now time to move on. We know that the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, has even acknowledged in an email to staff that this transition, is, indeed, moving forward. To be clear, the president insisting he is going to continue pursuing what little legal avenues he still has left. While his allies may be considering this to be the closest thing to a concession, he says he is not conceding. A tweet last night, he says what does gsa allowing to work with the dems have to do with pursuing cases in what will go down in the most corrupt election in American History . Dominion is a reference to this baseless Conspiracy Theory the president s been peddling, suggesting votes have been deleted for him. Not true. Has been defuncted bunked by st federal officials. The president is going to continue spreading these conspiracy theories. But in practice, at least allowing this transition to move forward. Thats a big distinction. And its a big morning because something has changed, this morning. So, jeremy, thank you very much for all of that reporting. So, coronavirus is spreading across the u. S. And yet, millions of americans are ignoring the publichealth warnings to stay home. For the thanksgiving holiday. Cnns ryan young is live at Hartsfield JacksonInternational Airport with more. Whats the scene there . Yeah. Good morning, allison. When we used to do these Holiday Travel stories, we would focus on all the people who are traveling. Of course, expecting more than a Million People to travel here. Thats down a third. But im wearing a mask. The people walking in are mostly wearing a mask. And the airport has prepared for people who are not wearing masks. If you look behind us, there are even people who have masks in their hands. They hand out to passengers as they arrive here. They are telling people to come early. To be ready for all the people who are showing up. I can tell you as somebody whos been in airports as the pandemic started, we are seeing a heavier flow of people, already, so far this morning. This is already happening with the rise in cases all across the country. In fact, 14 states are breaking records when it comes to hospitalizations. And there have been record numbers of people getting tested. So you think about these numbers as well. There is a big concern about what the impact of this holiday could be on the overall hospitalization in this country, especially when it comes to covid19. Dr. Fauci talked about this travel and the increased risk, just recently. When you leave a location, have to go to an airport or wherever it is, a train station, et cetera. The possibility of exposing yourself. And then, going home to your Home Community for, you know, a wonderful, traditional thanksgiving holiday might actually, unfortunately, be a source of an even amplification of the surge. Look, obviously, allison, were in a state where you see people. Some not wearing to wear a mask. But here, at the airport, you are seeing people wear the mask. They also have more handsanitation zones set up. More than 500 of them available. And when you go through tsa checkin, there is someone actually standing there who will squeeze it into your hand for you. Of course, airlines believe the airplanes are clean but there is a whole lot of contact points between here and the airplane that people are concerned about. Allison. We have heard that from our Health Experts as well. Ryan, thank you very much for explaining to us whats happening in crowded airports. So this morning, the transition to the Biden Administration is finally underway. Just in time for some major cabinet announcements which we will bring to you. We have a preview of what we can expect today from the president elect. And how the outgoing president got around to this. Next. 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So this morning, the closest President Trump, likely, will ever come to a concession, finally, acknowledges that joe biden is president elect. And today, the president unveils much of his National Security team. Cnn political commentator, joe lockhart, he was White House Press secretary, under president clinton. Margaret, i want to start with you. Axios reporting that President Trump isnt going to use the word concession but the world basically told President Trump you have conceded. And by that, i mean republican senators started coming out. The Business Community started coming out. Axios had great reporting on steven schwartzman. And then, michigan, pennsylvania, other states getting in line. What does axios think went on behind the scenes to get the president to at least write that tweet or sign off on that tweet . John, good morning. I mean, ultimately, it was these three trends, all, kind of coalescing. Avenues in court and with the states being blocked off. The Business Community. This was huge to have a figure like steve schwartzman, as well as like more than a hundred other business leaders, saying it is time to move on. And then, finally, it was the republican senators who have been such an important firewall for the i mean, i guess firewall is the right word. They have given him the space to play this out in front of the whole public. Starting to dial it back and say, okay, this is over now. So the New York Times has some great reporting on this. You saw, then, behind the scenes, president s chief of staff, the president s attorneys, saying it is time to bring this to an end. Use whatever words you want but its time to get out of the way and let the gsa begin this process. I think one of the really interesting postmortems on all of this, the three weeks of tortured exercise that weve all just gone through is that it did reveal to the American Public the loopholes, actually. The loopholes in the system that seem to put us in a precarious position. When it comes down to localcanvassing boards being able to go rogue or state electors or gsa administrator. One woman who can hold up the, you know, stop the wheels from turning. And i dont know, i guess im just wondering if you think that joe biden will take any of that and change any of that or congress will, moving forward . Because i dont think we ever knew that we could be in this position. Well, the systems always been based on trust. And trust is the one thing thats gone away since donald trump has been here. I mean, Hillary Clinton lost by much less, you know, if you look at the states and won the popular vote. But there was no holding up of gsa. I think they probably will take a look at that. I dont know that democrats and republicans can agree on anything when it comes to elections because everyones looking for an advantage. But it does its one of the legacies of trumpism that that the norms dont matter. The the the trusted figures dont matter. And he will do whatever he can to take advantage of the system and weve seen that the system, ultimately, held. But it was pretty ugly to watch. Yeah. It ultimately held but it wasnt for lack of trying to overturn an election. The president tried. And failed. But he did try and as you said, the institutions were based on good faith. Built on the idea that people would have good faith. We now know what happens when they dont. Joe, president elect joe bidens going to unveil his National Security team, much of it, today. Weve learned the identity of some of the other cabinet picks. Youve worked with a lot of these people when you were in the Clinton White house, which is to say, theyve been in the business of government for a long time. A vast body of experience. We can put up on the screen so people can see the people who will be announced and nominated today. It includes people who have