Lost now. That number is going to go up. We have the highest incidence of coronavirus cases ever. This is a disease we didnt know about a year ago, and now a quarter of a million americans are going to be dead. Certainly, you know, were going to be most likely close to 300,000 by the time donald trump leaves office. He has by continuing to sit in his office and do nothing and not allow the transition of power to begin and not to keep the Biden Administration in to where they are on vaccines, on strategy, he is making sure that history holds him accountable for every last death that we have during this time frame. Wow. You know, and we have been patient on this show. I mean, i said time and again that Mitch Mcconnell when he tweeted out everybody had a right to count the votes and they have the right to do the legal challenges and then we move forward, well, were there. And, you know, willie, this is of course as you know when we get around the campfire, when we get into the ozarks by the way, more coastline than the state of california. True story. True story too. But when we get around that campfire we Start Talking about a lot of things and you always tell me, joe, tell me that thing about the riptide in pensacola. Tell me that story again and of course what i tell, willie, is we learn very young the northwest Florida Region that when youre on the beaches and the riptide takes you out and im looking at you, alabama, and louisiana tourists. When that riptide starts taking you out, you just go with it. And it just it will take you out a while. But you just stay calm, because its going to take you out until it stops and when it stops you then swim parallel to the beach and then you just swim on in. You all got that . Well, thats been, willie, as you said to me last night, when we were at the orphanage, socially distanced, Wearing Masks, thats what our strategy should be here. We know donald trump will act badly, let them do their thing and when we get to the end of the process, then its time to Start Talking. You look yesterday at the Washington Post article by bob costa, they know and theyre admitting now they cant win these legal lawsuits. Theyre admitting in front of courts there is no fraud as a matter of law. Theyre admitting theres no way forward in any of these legal challenges. So now, theyre moving on and theyre going to try to disrupt the electors, doing something thats grossly undemocratic, grossly unamerican. And something that will stay with this Republican Party for years to come. They know its over and yet they wont do anything about it. Willie, we have ridden the riptide long enough. Its time for america to move forward, get out of it, start swimming back toward the shore and get on firm ground. Start planning for a peaceful transfer of power, start planning for distributing vaccines. Start planning to win this war on the coronavirus. Start having our commander in chief talk to our allies and our adversaries. It is pastime. Obama gave trump that advantage. Every president has done that in the past. There is no excuse for republicans to not start moving forward now. Lives depend on it. And their continued foot dragging is not only wrong, its unamerican. And lets be honest, there was no excuse from the very beginning. I mean, they all knew where this was head, they all saw the vote, but they said lets let this play out. They never did that before. They didnt do it in races they won in the house, we have talked about that. Or in the senate, they didnt do it in 2016. They congratulated the winner immediately but well stipulate that and say you have a president right now and we should never take this as routine even with this president , a president who in the middle of a pandemic thats raging out of control where we just crossed 250,000 deaths as you said, who is holed up at the white house, rage tweeting in all caps that an election was stolen from him. How much longer do you let this go on, republicans in the congress . How much longer do you let him do that . How many more people die, how much more space do you give this man . Its time as joe said, and lets go through that reporting in the Washington Post from robert costa that the strategy has now apparently changed from the Trump Campaign to disqualify votes to disrupting the Electoral College. The Trump Campaign wants to delay the certification long enough to cast doubt on the legitimacy of joe bidens win and to change the process for selecting electors. Rudy giuliani wants to pressure officials around the country to stall vote certification, then to have republican lawmakers choose electors to disrupt the Electoral College meeting next month and that President Trump is in favor of this plan. But the post reports the outcome appears impossible. It is against the law in pennsylvania, for example. Wisconsin law gives no role to the legislature in choosing president ial electors and theres little public the other states to pursue such a path. According to several people familiar with conversations. Giuliani is regularly conferring with steve bannon, one of the architects wait, is he not wait, is bannon not in jail . Wait, is he not in jail . I dont know. Ironically, joe, hes currently awaiting trial for fraud, which is what hes trying to mastermind this operation. So thats, willie, thats who the white house is going to . Giuliani is going to a guy whos convicted whos being tried for fraud right now . Yes. Who was arrested on a yacht youll remember this summer and is being tried for fraud and has wished violence on Anthony Fauci and others most recently. Thats where we are. This stuff is failing again and again and again in the courts. The courts are holding up in the face of these preposterous arguments made by Rudy Giuliani and others. So they can do what theyll do. Let them do that. But again, where are republicans on capitol hill . Where are they right now . How much longer do you let this go on . At this point, where is Mitch Mcconnell. Mitch mcconnell said you have a right to count the votes, i agree. You have a right to bring the legal challenges forward, free agree. But then its time. The legal challenges we now know and republicans in Congress KnowMitch Mcconnell knows the legal challenges have all failed. Theyre going to fail. There is no way forward for this president. And whats happening and i dont know if this is a country Mitch Mcconnell wants to live in, but the Republican Party is doing everything they can do to undermine the integrity of our voting process. Of a peaceful transfer of power. This has never happened before. There is no parallel here. This is a first time a party has tried to completely undermine the peaceful transfer of power from the person who we know won the election and they know won the election. I will say, mika, there are unfortunately some people who i would personally keep away from household blenders who actually believe, they live in their bubble, they go on facebook. And we have friends and relatives who like this, who go on facebook and they actually believe that theres a deep state conspiracy that intel officers worked with voting machine engineers to mastermind a stolen election for joe biden and, you know whats sad, Anne Applebaum, i think who well be quoting later today. Anne applebaum in twilight of democracy said theres a lazy stereotype about the trump supporters, theyre poor and eneducated, basically deplorables. As anne said you put that in quotes, deplorables. As she said, thats a lazy stereotype often generated by the Trump Campaign themselves because so many are actually very well educated. So many know exactly where they can get real news. So many have no excuse for rummaging around in the gutters of facebook to try to find news that just fits their world view, even though they know its a lie. I know you have friends who you found out last night who went to yale who believe this is a deep state conspiracy, who believe that spies were running around with sunglasses on. And they were whispering in dark shadows of basements to people who make Voting Machines and the new world order. Yeah. Concocted a deep space conspiracy. This is whats happening, no its not the quote, deplorables. Its not the working man from, you know, oshkosh. No, its the spoiled rich boy from new york who goes to maine in the summer. Its the spoiled rich boy from new york. Richie rich. Its all the richie riches out there that have made tons of money off of Donald Trumps tax cuts. Its all the people who see their order coming to an end. So these people who have been giving them everything by america are now turning on america because they dont like fact that a guy who cages children lost an election. Right. And President Trump tweeting pitifully that he won the election, maybe those who can speak to him, he doesnt care about our democracy. We have learned that. He doesnt care about that. But he cares about himself and these 251,678 deaths are on his watch. And the more he keeps information and transition information from the biden team, the more he owns this virus if its possible. Its not trumps presidency, its trumps virus that this hes holding on to. Hes holding on to it, and hes not allowing information to get in to actually the hands of responsible people who are going to be taking over the reins of power and are going to be dealing with this virus. Hes making sure more deaths happen on his watch, whether he knows it or not. He thinks hes screwing the biden team. He thinks hes being, you know, whatever. Instead, hes owning death after death after death on his watch, on his name in history, willie. Yeah, its true. We should say again because theres so much fog and theres so much garbage out there, the election is close in georgia where theyre just finishing their recount and the secretary of state says it wont change much, that joe biden will hang on and win. Its close in arizona. Its close in wisconsin, and in pennsylvania and michigan, the two places where the Trump Campaign continues to fight its not close. The election is simply not close. So if you think youre going to change a couple hundred votes here or there its not doing to make a difference. You wont change a couple hundred votes but its not going to make a difference. Joe biden is about to take a 6 million vote lead in the popular vote. His lead in the popular vote right now is about twice what Hillary Clintons lead was at the end of the day when she won the popular vote against donald trump. So yes, those few states where theyre going about their business of recounts are close. But this election broadly frankly just isnt that close. If you believe that somebody in the shadow of the night changed a couple of Voting Machines that didnt happen, but if you believe thats going to overturn the election youre dreaming. Yeah. Youre a fool if you believe that. Because by the way, you can run around all you want its deplorables you can say, 71, 72 million, 73 Million People voted for donald trump thats great. 79 to 80 million voted for joe biden. Put this in your conspiracy pipe and smoke it. Joe biden has received more votes than any american ever in the history of this constitutional republic. Not even a close call. Yeah. By a lot, he won by a lot. He crushed donald trump in the popular vote by 5 million, 5. 5 million, 6 million, its huge. Then you go state by state, mika. Pennsylvania, republican and mitch, listen to this, if you will. Pennsylvania, republican senator pat toomey said, theres nothing there. All right . Our officials did a good job. Theres nothing there. This is going nowhere. These results are going to be certified. In wisconsin, where of course donald trump decided he only wanted to review black counties, what a shock that is. You know, Scott Walker Scott walker saying weeks ago this isnt going to change anything. The spread is too wide, this is not gonna change anything. Youve got the governor of arizona, the secretary of state out in arizona saying the same thing. This isnt going to change anything. Like there is no fraud, no widespread fraud. This election is over. In georgia, youve got the republic republicans all except for the secretary of state in arizona, republican secretary of state in georgia saying this is this is not going to change anything. Ive got republican senators asking me to throw out legal votes. Ive got losers calling up whining, its not going to change anything. You have republican officials in all of these states saying that this is a road to nowhere. And again, we know this morning because the Washington Post reported, mika, all it is is an effort to delay. Rudy giuliani is wasting federal judges time and the federal courts time and hes just stalling. Hes holding the ball long enough that hes hoping that they get to a point where they can just throw out the electoral votes. Thats never going to happen. Mitch, it will never happen. It is time to put america first. How about american lives . I mean, we are surpassing now the quarter of a million lives. More than 250,000 people have died from the coronavirus. There is a massive set of facts that backs up that even that number didnt have to happen. Okay . This presidency has so botched this. But now keeping information from the president elect and his team so that they can get a jump on trying to curb the numbers, to mitigate until vaccines are available, its unspeakable. And that is the side of history that republicans are choosing to be on. Well take a quick break and then well give you a full update on where the coronavirus stands right now. Well be right back. E coronavir stands right now well be right back. Who is usaa made for . Its made for this guy a veteran who honorably served and its made for her shes serving now we made it for all branches and all ranks whether they served one tour or made a career of it. We also made usaa for military spouses and their kids usaa is easy to work with and can save you money on auto, home and renters insurance. Become a member today. 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This is a time we need to double down because were at the most serious and dangerous part of the pandemic that we have been. A stark warning from u. S. Health secretary Admiral Brett Giroir as the United States has now reported more than 250,000 deaths from covid19. A quarter of a million deaths. Thats 19 of the total covid deaths worldwide. This comes nine months after the first u. S. Fatality and covid deaths have increased by 42 over the last four years, a pace not seen since mid august. The number of new infections continues to climb at an alarming rate. The sevenday average for new cases is now more than 171,000. However, the Washington Post reports on a model at Columbia University that predicts more than 3 Million People in the u. S. Are estimated to have active Coronavirus Infections right now, much higher than the official number since it accounts for those undiagnosed and the post reported that its equal to the number of Public Schoolteachers in the United States and the number of truck drivers. Willie . As Coronavirus Infections surge across the country, conditions inside the countrys hospitals are now deteriorating. They are facing growing that fatigue and frustration as you can imagine. The overwhelmed hospitals are beginning to convert chapels, waiting rooms into treatment areas and allison johnson, the director at Johnson City Medical Center in tennessee told the associated press, we are depressed, disheartened, tired to the bone, adding she drives to and from work some times in tears. El paso is so overwhelmed that inmates are being paid 2 to help transport the bodies of victims. Last week in reno, nevada, they had to turn a parking lot into a hospital. Metro hospitals are beginning to turn away patients needing care from rural areas and hospitals in idaho warned this month theres a closing window of opportunity to avoid rationing care. In just the past two weeks more than 900 mayo clinic Staff Members have been diagnosed with covid19. The Staffing Shortage has forced the Medical Center to shuffle Health Practitioners across state lines and even to call retired staff back in to service. Mika, this sounds like what we were going through here in new york city back in march. But now its spread out across the country, running rampant across