Children, in the United States. The most infections of any country in the world. We will go live to the white house in a few moments to talk about how much President Trump has addressed and responded to this horrific news amid spiraling infections and record numbers of american deaths from coindividual vid covid covid19. Not a word from the president about the pandemic. Much from him about alleged rigged elections. They were not riged. T first, lets assess what the administration is doing weeks away from taking charge of the white house, we are talking about the Incoming Administration, the president elect joe biden and his Transition Team making the coronavirus pandemic an extremely high priority. Not getting any help from Current Administration officials. Dr. Fauci would like to see the incoming and Outgoing Health officials start working together immediately. Of course, it would be better if we could work with them. In several weeks to months is really important in a smooth handing over of the information as well as its almost like passing a baton in a race. You dont want to stop and then give it to somebody. You want to keep going. Thats what transition is. It certainly would make things more smoothly if we could do that. Lets go to the white house. Jeremy diamond is on the scene. The president today signalled he is coming to terms with the outcome of the election. He signalled it for a few minutes. Then he walked away from that. He is refusing to concede. He continues to blame his loss on con spspiracy theories. What are you learning . Reporter it was a brief acknowledgement of reality that lasted two words contained in a tweet that had a multitude of conspiracy theories and lies and baseless allegations about the 2020 election. In those words, the president said he won, referring to joe biden. Before then saying joe biden only won because of a rigged election. A couple hours later, the president making clear that was nothing close to the concession that some republicans had begun to analyze this tweet as being. The president saying, i concede nothing and making very clear that he intends to continue to try to contest the results of the 2020 election. It was reflective of what we have seen from the president over the last week or more accurately what our sources have been telling us, which is that the president at times beginning to acknowledge the reality that this election is lost, that joe biden will be the next president , and then is urging his allies to make the case for him and to continue pressing forward with these lawsuits. It seems like thats where we are stuck. The president making clear that he wants to continue pressing forward with this case, continuing to make the baseless allegations on twitter. Even as Election Officials across the country, republicans and democrats as well as th d s clear its safe. The president is ignoring the coronavirus that we have seen over the last couple of weeks. More than a million cases in the last six days. The president , while he was happy friday to take credit for some of the progress that we are seeing on the vaccine front, we havent heard anything from him in terms of what americans should be doing and what the federal government is doing right now to try and mitigate this disaster thats happening right now in the u. S. Jeremy, its interesting. This morning he tweeted he won, referring to biden, he won because the election was rigged. Then very quickly, i guess he realized maybe from his perspective he made a mistake. Tweeted, he only won in the eyes of the fake news media. I concede nothing. We have a long way to go. This was a rigged election. What are officials saying about that initial statement when he wrote those two words, he won . Reporter some republicans in washington and across the country were happy to begin to interpret that as the beginning of a concession from the president. We saw governor hutch didntins it was the beginning. It was that chatter that made him put out that is not what he is doing. The president making clear that the former new york city mayer rudy giuliani, who is leading his legal team in terms of contesting the election, that they will file new lawsuits in the coming days despite the fact that we have seen the lawsuits filed by the president s campaign and his allies over the last several days, they have been all but laughed out of the courts. The lawyers for the campaign and for other republican outfits, they have been unwilling to provide concrete evidence. Judges have said some of the affidavits amount to nothing more than hearsay. The overwhelming consensus by officials, including by the Cybersecurity InfrastructureAgency Within the u. S. Government have said theres no evidence of widespread voter fraud. I know you are working your sources. We will get back to you. Joining us to discuss, this Adam Kinzinger of illinois. Thanks for joining us. Congratulations on your reelection. Thanks for coming in. Theres a lot i want to discuss with you. Let me get your reaction to the president of the United States all these days after the election still refusing to concede, even though he is down by 5. 5 million votes. He is way, way down in terms of the electioral college. How damaging is this, whats going on . I think it has some real potential in the longterm to be damaging. It takes away from Peoples Trust in an election system, in government. Right now we know our institutions of government are at a record low in terms of approval. When you have a democracy where your vote is basically every two years four years for president your only input in the future of the government, that can be really damaging. I think its the president we know he has every right to pursue every legal avenue. But to deny president elect biden the opportunity to begin the transition, to get briefings, which he should be getting, i think is longterm damage. For whatever reason, one of the lawsuits gets through and President Trump wins reelection, then theres no harm, no foul in the process. But this is far bigger than a party, than a man, than anything. This is about a union that has a great 200 years of being able to do this. We need another couple hundred years. Why doesnt he tell the General Services administration, go ahead, start the official transition process. Lives are at stake. Let the experts the coronavirus experts who are working with the Incoming Administration meet with dr. Fauci, dr. Birx, dr. Redfield and get the later information so when president elect Biden Takes Office they know whats going on and they can save lives . Yeah. I think he should. Again, if he has a chance to win one of the court cases, whats been the harm in having somebody else involved . Maybe they have ideas you havent thought of. This is just the right thing to do. I think the president spends a lot of time looking at twitter. I think he looks at some of the conspiracy theories that pop up. If he says anything that seems like it may be a concession, he sees the angry tweets, and he reverses course on that. This is about a democracy in a handover of power which has been very much cornerstone to the success that we have had in america. I have gotten to the point where i can look at this and say, again, every legal challenge you think you have, fine, pursue it. This is about something far bigger. Theres always an election around the corner. This is about something far bigger, which is the survival of the United States of america and the government as we know it in the longterm. Congressman, if you had your way, what would you like the president of the United States to say . Lets say he goes into oval office and delivers an address to the American People tomorrow night. What should he say . I think the president can make it very clear, republicans had a great night. The president outperformed his polling expectations. We gained seats in the house. Were probably going to hold the senate, statehouses. Theres a lot to be proud of. It appears the president came up short in running for reelection. It was record turnout for him and for president elect biden. Its an opportunity i wish he would come out and say, we have legal challenges. But were going to work as if president elect biden is actually president elect so if my legal challenges dont succeed, we can have a smooth transition. A lot i had two friends today that told me they have covid. Seems like its spreading far faster than it did even in the spring. This is really important. These are real peoples lives. Theres no harm whatsoever in saying the next Administration Needs a running start, if they can. I want you to listen to what the former president barack obama said. He gave an interview. I want you to listen to this. The president doesnt like to lose. Never admits loss. Im more troubled by the fact that other republican officials who clearly know better are going along with this, are humoring him in this fashion. It is one more step in dela m z delegitimizing democracy. Thats a dangerous pass. We would never accept that out of our kids behaving that way if they lost. If my daughters in any kind of competition pouted and then accused the other side of cheating when they lost when there was no evidence of it, we would scold them. I think that there has been this sense over the last several years that literally anything goes and is justified in order to get power. Thats not unique to the United States. There are strong men and deck tate dictators who think i can do anything to stay in power. I can kill people. I can throw them in jail. I can run phony elections. I can suppress journalists. Thats not who we are supposed to be. One of the signals, i think, that joe biden needs to send to the world is that, no, those values that we preached and we believed in and subscribed in, we still believe them. Congressman kinzinger, whats your reaction when you hear those words . Its a long sound bite. I cant say i agree or disagree with all, some or none. I will say, he is right in a point which is, this is a cornerstone of who we are. As you know, wolf, i pay a lot of attention to Foreign Policy and international policy. We often travel to other countries that are struggling with democracy. We use our example of how we can take two very bitter factions and hand over power. We take the house or if we have a president from a different party. The threat now is if we go and do that they will say, what about x, y, z, this election . I would say this to my republican friends especially. This is not about this moment. Right . This is about in ten years in 20 years, what happens if a democrat does the same thing . Do you have the moral authority to be outraged or did you give that up . The fact is, we can point fingers at each side. I can point say democrats did something. The reality is were in this moment now and this is essential that we as a nation get beyond what this the issue du jour is and move ahead. Man, i hope to have kids some day. I want them to be raised in a country better than the one i was raised in. Excellent point. I applaud you for doing something simple, referring to joe biden as president elect. Why though are so many of your republican colleagues refusing to do so . Are they afraid of the president . Why cant they simply acknowledge the fact that joe bide season now the president elect of the United States . Somehow after this election, some of the Republican Base not all, but the ones that are loud on twitter, believed that or were convinced that so so much misinformation on election day. Thats another segment we could do. They were con vipsed thvinced id any legal challenge or would be accepting defeat. Its ludicrous. Honestly, i think Republican Leaders its one thing to take time to say lets see where the legal challenges go. I say that as well. I want all that to be exhausted. But we have a responsibility far beyond what the twitter mobs say or the hordes of angry people say on internet. We have a responsibility to the constitution of the United States that declares it in january theres going to be a transition of power. Thats our responsibility now. Not to look at the angry retweets but to just do whats right for the country. I run every two years. Theres an election around the corner. It probably started about a week ago. You, sir, served in the u. S. Air force, in iraq, afghanistan. You risked your life. We are grateful to you. Congratulations on your reelection. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for speaking out. This is such a critical time, the transition. It needs to the cooperation of the Outgoing Administration with the Incoming Administration on National Security as well as health issues, the coronavirus, we see how many people there could be 70,000 americans dead between now and january 20th, unless this country gets its act together. All hands on deck. I think that is whats needed. Congressman kinzinger, thanks for joining us. You bet. Good luck. A surge of cases across the United States in the past six days. More than 1 million new cases have been reported. Now hospitals all around the country are warning they are running out of intensive care unit beds. Well be right back. Goodbye cleaning, hello clean. 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First of all, wolf, relative to so many other families, we are fortunate. We are lucky. Nobody is in the hospital. We are getting healthier by the day. Count our blessings every day. I wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy. Its a wicked disease. Nausea, headaches, fever, body aches. Just sheer exhaustion. Not something anybody should go through or needs to go through. I tried to tweet just to maybe revealing personally. Maybe wont like this. But i think people need to stay home for thanksgiving this year. I hate to say that. I never want to be scrooge. We socially distance. We wore masks. Nobody in the house tried to be we tried to be cautious. Unfortunately, it wasnt enough. Tell us how you are feeling. Is there a sense you and the family are improving right now . Obviously, i have known you for a long time. I have worried about you and the entire family. I appreciate that. We are absolutely improving. First couple days, we realized, they were terrible. They were really hard. The past couple two, three days going in the right direction. It takes time. You cant rush it. I still dont have near the energy i want to have. Still feeling far less my best. Relative to so many others who are dealing with severe illness and death, our family is very, very fortunate. What were the symptoms that you initially had that convinced you it was time to go get tested . Its the strangest thing. Ive been working out and feeling strong and feeling good and trying to build up my strength in case this happened. You go from one day feeling fine to the next day i can only say it feels like you are hit by a truck. You feel absolutely flattened or feel like you ran a marathon. N