As the current occupant of the white house is falsely accusing his successor of stealing the election. Trump stood silently in the rain with no umbrella at Arlington National cemetery today and did not speak to reporters as he left. With the exception of two trips to the golf course, it was his first appearance in six days. Trump has largely been disengaged from governing since he discredited the election last tuesday. They have no evidence to back up the president s claims. What evidence of any widespread fraud have you seen in the count in philadelphia . I have not. Reporter the Republican Philadelphia city commissioner told cnn today they looked into viral claims of fraud, including a list claiming dead people had voted. We looked it up. Each one of them to see what their vote history was. Not a single one of them voted in philadelphia after they died. Reporter al schmidt told cnn he was stunned by how people have embraced disinformation. I have seen the most fantastic things on social media making completely ridiculous allegations that have no basis, in fact, at all. One thing i cant comprehend is how hungry people are to consume lies. Reporter moments after saying he looked into fraud allegations, trump attacked the gop official on twitter, calling him a republican in name only who refused to look into fraud allegations. With or without trump, World Leaders are embracing the president elect while referring to trump as the, quote, previous president. I am delighted to find the many areas in which the Biden IncomingBiden Harris Administration is able to make common cause with us. Foreign leaders are rushing to greet the new administration, trump is praising his secretary of state for denying reality. There will be a smooth. Translator circumstanc tr a second Trump Administration. Mike pompeo was number one in his lass at west point that trump tweeted. The president is contesting the outcome of the election. The president has not taken any questions from reporters since his loss to joe biden and he has had few, if any, meetings on the pandemic. That comes as we are now learning today that another person inside the west wing has tested positive, the Political Affairs director brian jack who we should note attended that indoor party last tuesday, the Election Night party that the white house was having where hundreds of people attended and very few people were wearing a mask. That happens within the context of the pandemic surging nationwide right now. Kaitlin collins, thank you for the latest there. Sources today tell cnn the biden team has adopted a strategy for dealing with President Trump and that is projecting a sense 6 calm and inevitability that even trumps closest allies will eventually accept a biden victory. Cnns Arlette Saenz reports the biden Election Team is not ruling out legal action but believe now at least that any actions towards President Trump could backfire. Reporter in philadelphia, president elect joe biden and the future first lady laid a wreath paying respects to the nations veterans. As President Trump refuses to respect the results of the election. The president elect says his commitment to veterans is personal pointing to his late sons beaus service in iraq. Biden is promising to be a commander in chief who expects your sacrifice and understands your service and who will never betray the values you fought to bravely to defend. While President Trump remains defiant about his loss biden is defending his position as president elect even without a concession. I just think its an embarrassme embarrassment, quite honestlfra. How can i say this tactfully . I think it will not help the president s legacy. Reporter biden has turned to tones of calm and patience, while trump tries to create turmoil by blocking access to key Transition Resources and mounting legal challenges. Bidens top attorneys are dismissing those lawsuits and accusations of fraud as political theater. With 70 days until his inauguration, biden is pressing head with top staffing announcements for his left wing later this week. Cabinet picks are not expected until later in the month. Aides tell cnn. But the lobbying of positions has already started, including from Bernie Sanders who is re reaching out Union Leaders as he is eyeing labor secretary. On the world stage, leaders are eager to work on the president elect including on climate change. I have had a Good Relationship with the previous president but i am delighted to find the many areas the incoming biden and Harris Administration is able to make common cause with us. Reporter even though more foreign leaders have congratulated biden than senate republicans, some republicans are starting to acknowledge the transition should get under way. We are on a path and it looks likely that joe biden is the next president of the United States. Its not 100 certain but likely so i think a transition process ought to begin. Reporter after his brief veterans day stop in pennsylvania, joe biden came back to delaware where he met with transition advisers. Inside bidens Transition Team his advisers are embracing that same sense of calm as the president elect, despite these road blocks from the Trump Administration, they act floj that if this continues down the road, they may need to take a more aggressive approach but, for now, they feel that could backfire. Arlette, thanks so much for the latest there. Joining me now, is democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand of new york. Thank you for coming on. My flepleasure. You heard the report there. Biden team is trying to turn down the temperature saying he can proceed even without trump conceding. You have called President Trumps refusal to concede outrageous. What approach is best here, do you think . President trump is just kicking and screaming like the child he often is. While he is entitled to file lawsuits, ask for recounts, the reality is joe biden won this election and the fact that they are unable to have an ascertainment of this election and not able to start the peaceful and critical transition has that has gone on efficiently in every other election is really going to harm the United States. Joe biden needs access to not security information. He needs access to information about what is happening in the agencies with regard to the covid epidemic. He is entitled to resources to begin his transition. And that lack of ascertainment is highly problematic. Something that has not been withheld while lawsuits or recounts have taken place in the past. What do you think about bidens approach here . He is clearly trying to take the approach of staying calm, cool, collected and turning down the temperature. Do you think that is the right approach right now . I do. I think joe biden is taking the right exact approach. The American People know this election was won by joe biden. They expect a seamless transition. They dont expect on sitting president to hold on to the oval office because he thinks its his right. That is not the america we know and he is not following the protocols or the normal in an election transition. There is, obviously, the difference between the president out wardly conceding and letting the transition take place. If the president never concedes and people im speaking to are saying that is the last thing he will ever do is actually concede but they think he will leave the white house in january. Is that acceptable . Does that give you any reassurance . I personally does not need to say any magic work and personally does not need to concede but he has to let the gsa do the ascertainment who won the election to resources can flow to bidens team so he can continue to do the analysis and background checks for the 4,000 political appointees is going to need to appoint in the next several months. What is the plan for democrats during this period right now . After the election, preinauguration, you have a president who is contesting the results of this election. What is the game plan for democrats . This was not a surprise the president would be doing this. He forecasted this. We have our lawyers. We are doing everything that is appropriate in these litigations that the president has filed. But politically, we are all hands on deck in georgia. We have two senate races that will go to runoffs in january. And if we win those two races, it shifts the balance of power and now we would have a governing majority in the u. S. Senate, which means we could then really govern and help joe biden put forward his agenda. Lets talk about what we heard from democratic senator chris coons. He is hearing from republican colleagues who are privately congratulating biden. Have you spoken to republican colleagues and what are you hearing from them . I havent really spent much time speaking to them. We have had a few votes but giving covid, we try to get on the floor and vote and get off as quickly as possible so i really havent taken their temperature. I have been deeply disappointed we only have a handful of republican colleagues who are actually publicly congratulated joe biden and members of President Trumps administration who are literally saying we are going to transition to a second Trump Administration. That is absurd. And that is so inappropriate and is creating instability and harm to the u. S. Youre right about covid, obviously, making things more difficult but should democrats be reaching out more to republicans and putting the pressure on them to at least acknowledge where things stand right now and not claim like what pompeo falsely said yesterday about transitioning to a Trump Administration . Why arent you and other democrats reaching out to republicans more on this . Well, i think we will. I think there has been a little bit of time that was given for whatever face saving they wanted to do, but now its become unhelpful and, frankly, harmful to the United States. Every day that passes without the resources and the ability to talk to agencies, to get top secret briefings to work on Covid Recovery and covid relief is a day that harms the American People in our future. So we are not in session today but we will be in session tomorrow and i intend to talk to all of my republican colleagues about what they can do to push this president to do the right thing and, at a minimum, advocate that the gsa has to have this ascertainment which allows for resources. Millions of dollars of resources, as well as access to flow to the incoming biden administration. So you intend to do that tomorrow. I want to end on the note that it is veterans day and you have introduced legislation to allow easier access to care for veterans exposed to pits where toxic waste was burned. Explain for our viewers why that is important and do you expect progress on this soon . I do. Its important because we have millions of veterans who have served since the war on terror began in countries all across the world, including afghanistan and pakistan who have been exposed to some of the worst toxins ever because they had burn pits in these locations where they would burn electronics, they would use jet fuel to light it on fire and all of these toxins, not only were seething into the air and the water and the ground, but they were inhaling it. Unfortunately, these toxins cause horrible disease and cancers. We owe it to them. This is the cost of war. We should be making a presumption that if you served where a burn pit was open and steaming, that, in fact, you should have presumptive cover for all of these diseases known to be linked to exposure to those chemicals and toxins. As a wife of a veterans, i appreciate that. Our gratitude goes to all of our veterans. Absolutely. Thanks so much. Do not go to grandmothers house. 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As more people are currently hospitalized in the United States with covid19 than ever before. Yesterday, the nation saw the highest single day of new cases since the pandemic began. More than 136,000. Now athena jones reports, the cdc is offering new guidance how to stay safe. Im just terrified. We are entering a very dark phase in this pandemic. Reporter america setting records no country wants to set. Reporting 136 thousand n,000 ne coronavirus cases on tuesday. 45 states up 45 and 15 states up 50 more than 1400 deaths reported tuesday. 1400 americans dying of covid a day is like three or four plane loads full of americans crashing and dying. This is unsustainable. Reporter nearly 62,000 people are hospitalized with covid19 in the u. S. More than ever. Oklahoma reporting only 6 capacity in its intensive care units. Just 9 of icu beds are available in tennessee. Massachusetts and illinois governors also concerned. Our biggest concern, of course, is the hospitals, risk getting overwhelmed. Across the state, the majority of our regions are seeing far higher rates of hospitalizations for covid19 than they ever did last spring. Reporter while every part of the country is seeing explosive growth in cases, the outspacing the record. In illinois set a new cases yesterday and they are are trying to slow the spread and wisconsins governor has new stayathome orders and social gatherings are set to take effect on friday in minnesota. The cold winds of november are blowing again and, unfortunately, the analogy i gave you back in march was that this was going to be a long dark winter of covid and unfortunately that has proven true. Reporter the new restrictions coming as the cdc issues new guidance on masks saying wearing one protects both the wearer and those around them. Producing the risk of transmitting or catching the virus by more than 70 . The agency saying 15 increase in universal mask wearing could prevent the need for more lockdowns and save the economy up to a trillion dollars. Wearing a mask, if all of us do it, could save tens of thousands of lives in the u. S. Reporter covid cases surging in every corner of the country, state leaders and Health Officials are urging americans to plan for a different Holiday Celebration this year, suggesting people forego thanksgiving gatherings particularly indoors with people outside of your household. We know gettogethers with friends and family is a source of significant spread and indoor gatherings at private residences will be limited to ten people. Lets bring in chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. To reset this is a fivealarm fire with the pandemic and where we are in it right now. Thanksgiving is around the corner. This is the time people are desperate for comfort to be with their loved ones but the cdc says the safest option is to celebrate only with the people in your household. Explain what the risk is for Americans Still considering small family gatherings. We have known for sometime that as we looked at the data that gatherings inside private residences were a big driver of this pandemic. People sort of took their gatherings inside, you know, because of concerns about larger outdoor gatherings an we saw numbers spike. As the weather has gotten cooler more people are indoors and the concern. People will travel. They will get together indoors and its hard to ventilate and hard to wear a mask when youre eating and those are prescription for increase in numbers. As was mentioned a low versus medium to highist. Low risk is small by reason with only members of your household. Moderate risks small outdoor with family and friends. Highest risk what people do is a large indoor gatherings with lots of people outside the household. Look. Id love to do that. My parents would love to come here from florida to visit me and their grandkids but we are not doing it this year as we weight the particular concerns. We are trying to project what could happen but w