By stoking civil unrest, puts the safety of americans his refusal to concede the election entered a more dangerous phase as he Stock Exchange resistance and unrest among supporters and spreads false hoods aimed as undermining integrity of the american voting system. More than a week after the president elect joe biden was declared winner, trump continues to block his successors transition, withholding intelligence briefings, critical information about coronavirus, and access to the vast machinery of government that mr. Biden will soon oversee. Speaking of the president elect, he was asked about trump stonewalling last hour. Bidens answer was simple. More people may day if we dont coordinate. How do we get the vaccine, how do we get over 300 million americans vaccinated . Whats the game plan . It is a huge, huge, huge undertaking. If we have to wait until january 20th to start that planning, it puts us behind, a month, month and a half. So it is important that it be done, that there be coordination now. The president s obstruction of the transition comes at a moment local leaders, Public Health officials, front line medical workers are begging people to take drastic measures such as cancelling family gatherings over the holidays to stop the surge of new infections. This weekend, our country hit 11 million cases, a full million of those detected in the last week. We are likely to cause 250,000 deaths in the next several days if not hours. The latest projection is 360,000 deaths by inauguration day. Dr. Michael osterholm, a member of president elect bidens Advisory Board didnt sugar coat concerns. My worst fear is what we saw in other countries where people were dying on the streets, people literally were dying in Emergency Rooms after spending ten hours waiting to be seen. Thats going to start happen, the media will start reporting it, we will see the breadth and depth of this tragedy. Instead of focusing on protecting americans and saving lives, the president s chief medical advise or scott atlas is adding his voice to the president s call for uprisings against Public Health measures, tweeting to michigan residents to rise up and protest stay at home orders. He tweeted this. The only way this stops is if people rise up. You get what you accept. Freedom matters. Step up. Undeniable echo of Donald Trumps liberate michigan tweet during the first spike of the pandemic which contributed to animosity towards Gretchen Whitmer that culminated in a plot to harm her. He does as much damage to the country he leads as possible in remaining days, where we start with some of our favorite reporters and friends. White house reporter Ashley Parker is here, dr. Patel, former Obama White HouseHealth Policy director, and former Obama Campaign manager David Plouffe is back. Lucky for us, all msnbc contributors. Ashley, you have several remarkable pieces in the newspaper this weekend. Take us through the dereliction of duty in a piece with some of your colleagues. Talk about what you reported about trump being completely awal in terms of participating or Pay Attention to or seeming to care about work of the Coronavirus Task force. Absolutely. Even before the election, but became more pronounced and on steroids after the election, trump abdicated his duties for handling the pandemic. We reported, members of the task force later publicly confirmed on sunday shows that donald trump had not attended a Coronavirus Task force meeting in over five months. We spoke to people inside the administration that said the medical experts said they actively want to be helping the biden Transition Team, but when they try to do so, they are actively, specifically told not to, that they cannot talk to them. Even when the president s interest has only been focused on one aspect, operation warp speed and vaccines, the president very much wanted a miracle cure. Even when good news was announced first by phizer, then by moderna, when phizer came out six days after election day with news they had a vaccine, 90 effica efficacy rate, the president was so frustrated it came out after the election. He believed phizer and his own fda were sitting on data to harden him at the poll. That he didnt want to go out and take a victory lap as advisers urged him to do to get the message out. They said it was a good achievement for his presidency, and b, it was an Important Health message for the citizens of the country to know and he didnt want to do that. Finally begrudgingly friday gave the update on operation warp speed and progress on the vaccines. Ashley, do you have any reporting on the woman who was holding up certifying the transition funds and green lighting it, another News Organization has reported shes looking for employment. Shes still one of the obstacles to the transition funds and Transition Office space being turned over to the biden team. Well, more generally she is one of these people, again, i want to be clear, i am not specifically talking about her, it was a tough situation. The president hasnt conceded the election. He made clear he doesnt want the transition to begin. So you have varying degrees of People Holding things up because theyre true trump loyalists, believers, and think incorrectly with no evidence that he is going to be victorious. Then theres a group of people like i mentioned earlier that very much want to start the process, feel like theyre being h hamstrung by their supervisors and the president s wishes. We reported in the story on emails where some began with if there is a transition to biden, if trump does not get a second term, so when you have that mentality, whether it is a loyalist or someone that feels they cant do their job because theyll be penalized if it turns out, theyre operating in the reality based community, it very much freezes everything on every level regardless of a sole persons intentions or beliefs in their heart, so to speak. Dr. Patel, my colleague usually makes the transition by saying over here on planet earth. I like ashleys description of reality based community. Reality based community on planet earth, joe biden is the next president. Donald trump it would appear is willfully endangering lives of American People by not allowing a transition. I saw that reporting in the Washington Post that trump was enraged that phizer came up with a vaccine. It is a hallelujah moment that they made such, seems like important and Good Progress on a vaccine. It answers any remaining dead enders as to whether or not this was about anything other than Donald Trumps political destiny, what ashley reports is the case, that he was fuming it came out six days after the election. I know. Nicole, isnt it amazing, the depth of his selfishness, all the while breaking record numbers of cases, deaths, hospitalizations. Youve got hospital doctors in red and blue states, doesnt matter, who are crying for help. We reported on it, talked about it here, i think even more critical in light of what i consider Ground Breaking news, Novel Technology in a vaccine thats never been done before, absolutely amazing numbers which still, we need to see the data, it is all by press release, lets caveat all of that, but my goodness, if anything, use this as an instance to say look at this, this is what Research Dollars and American Innovation can do. Instead, youre just hearing blockades and obstacles. And something that hasnt gotten enough attention, nicole, theres no funding because of lack of action on Mitch Mcconnells desk, theres no funding to help the states get the vaccine distributed, so we will have incredible promise. We prepurchased doses, but if it doesnt get into americans arms, then thats not going to see an end to the nightmare, which we are all eagerly awaiting. Dr. Patel, it was theoretical for a few months how the president s refusal to model Good Behavior like mask wearing or social distancing, refusal to acknowledge after his own hospitalization the dire situation. Youre now seeing the product of that information pumped into millions of supporters and followers, and hearing it from doctors and nurses who have no political bone, not from a political Vantage Point but at the bedside of sick people that dont believe covid is real. How do you fix that . How does a President Biden fix that . One thing that i think needs to happen is we need to actually understand a bit about the detrimental effect on human psychology that the president and candidly, his qanon, the social Media Support he has received, all that damage needs to be acknowledged, nicole. It is the same thing we have to do when trying to get people to get motivated to lose weight, to take hard medication they may need to. We cant just tell people Wearing Masks and doing things we have been saying. Clearly theyre not doing it. We need to acknowledge what has been this disinformation pandemic and try to counter it. Honestly, one way to counter it is what president elect biden is doing, he is sticking to the same language, trying to tell people it is not about you or me, it is about protecting our mothers, our children, sisters, brothers. And we also need to keep doing what we have been doing, showing the reality of it, showing young people getting infected. I have seen patients in my clinic months out, nicole, who have been infected from march and april, coming in with headaches, nonspecific complaints, and it is terrifying us. We need to put more sunlight onto what were actually seeing and need to acknowledge that americans are just not listening to the standard wear a mask, keep a distance, all the while supporting the governors and local mayors that are giving the right messages. What lori lightfoot, Governor Whitmer, governor dewine in ohio, a republican governor, red state, theyre the ones picking up the pieces of the chaotic mess. We need to do more of that and less of just the blindness. David, i want to show you something that tony fauci said. We should remind people that tony fauci worked for four or five president s, he has been part of the transition, albeit not during the pandemic, but between multiple administrations. Heres what tony fauci had to say about the impact of no transition being permitted by a president who refuses we dont have the sound. I will read you the quote. Tony fauci said the virus is not going to stop and call a time out while things change, the virus will just keep going. The process will just keep going. This is something that is now going in a strong direction. Vaccines are effective, very strong right direction. Vaccines are effective, want it approved as quickly as we can. Get doses to people in december and get the ball rolling as we get to january, february, march. Want a smooth process for that. The way you do that is having the two groups speak to each other, exchange information. Meyer old boss, george w. Bush, insisted upon a smooth and very productive transition to your old boss which i think became the foundation eventually for friendship between the two families. Your old boss insisted on, demanded a smooth transition of power to whatever trump did in the transition. It is hard to sort of articulate how important this period is of time unless you lived through it. You and i lived through it. Youre exhausted from the campaign but you have a more important task, youre in charge of the federal government. Can you just speak to how detrimental in the middle of a crisis, listen to the time line from fauci, the transition is when the logistics, and it is almost like wartime operation, figuring how to move vaccines into every community, most vulnerable ones first into peoples arms as dr. Patel said, is it going to happen because trump wont acknowledge the election. You know, nicole, it is remarkable to say this given the last four years, but i think we now reached where trump is handling lack of concession, lack of transition cooperation, dealing with a once in a century pandemic. It is the most reckless and irresponsible thing hes ever done. We have an election early november, new president takes over third week of january. It is no time at all, over in the blink of an eye. So the damage here is severe. Its all to satisfy his childlike ego. This election is not even that close. He tweeted at the governor of ohio today, he is much more enraged about the governor of ohio saying joe biden won an election than about the pandemic raging all around us, and listen, at the end of the day, we pay a price all the time for this, but i think it is coming to crescendo. You put one of the worst human being on the planet in the most powerful office, bad things are going to happen. I wish i could say thursday of this week, tuesday next week, he is going to come to higs senses. In 1981, iranians released hostage after Ronald Reagan took office. We have to wait until then to be fully released from irresponsibility of this administration. Joe biden is right, people are going to die, a lot of them are going to die, because the president refuses to acknowledge the outcome of the election. Someone whose life was threatened and we know that because the fbi foiled a plot against her, David Plouffe, the michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. Donald trumps top medical adviser, unclear why he is the president s medical adviser, tweeted more sort of flame fanning rhetoric against her. Do you sense theres anyone in the room that is doing anything other than dealing with the president s hurt feelings as you said or spreading disinformation . Yeah. It is remarkable. He is paid by the taxpayers, supposedly paid to help manage covid, and a disaster at that. Picking up Donald Trumps comments about the proud boys from the debate, stand by. He is calling people to arm vigilante. No matter how he tries to clean it up, thats what happened. Listen, at the end of the day the only people that can get him to potentially acknowledge election results, it would be his kids. And they seem to be the ones, particularly the boys, who are rallying the cages loudest. He is living in a fantasy world. He wants to be able to leave with himself convinced and viewers of news max convinced that he won the election. And again, this is not a close election. He is going to lose by the same electoral vote margin he won in 2016. The michigan margins triple what he won those states by, pennsylvania over 70,000 votes. We are all paying a price for childish ego. Again, we are going to have tens of thousands die unnecessarily. The logistical challenges of getting the vaccine out, it is not just logistical, we have behavioral, we have financial, we have public education. It is a massive, massive challenge. And i think at the end of the day, the weeks were going to lose here are going to be devastating for the country. Ashley, i want to show you Governor Whitmer standing up to the president , something that i guess there are seven republican senators have been able to acknowledge the truth. Makes me laugh that thats breaking news, when a republican senator acknowledges election results. Heres a democratic governor telling the truth about the impact of the tweets, that she wont be bullied. We know that the white house likes to single us out here in michigan, me out in particular. Im not going to be bullied into not following reputable scientists and medical professionals. Shes right that she is following the science. She is accepting the results of the election. But you do see the president s tweets and the president s words and the president s actions have consequences. Sometimes dangerously so. There was a plot against her. You know, the fbi foiled the plot that was good work on their part, but it is not as if his tweets and again, his comments go off into a vacuum. David was mentioning all of the challenges of mobilizing the vaccine. One word that caught my mind was behavioral. In addition to biden, and the challenge where he doesnt have time for robust transition, he is inheriting a challenge where because of just the president s mere words and his own poor example, you have something as basic and simple and frankly as lifesaving as wearing a mask thats been so deeply politicized that it is maddening, i have to imagine, for Public Health experts and medical doctors to realize one of bidens first challenges will be to convince a significant portion of the public to wear a mask to protect themselves, protect their neighbors, their families. It is an unbelievable state of affairs. Ashley parker, dr. Patel, David Plouffe, thank you for starting us off today. With trump abdicating his day job for frivolous lawsuits, following coronavirus falls to local leaders. 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