Then they gave their votes to democrats and then you probably did some crazy something with them, didnt you . I dont handle ballots and im a republicans. Then youre literally useless. Did you check every poll . Did you talk to all of the dead people . Were state senators. Excuse me, i have been threatened. My kids have been threatened. My kids have threatened me and i have threatened them right back. Im sorry, but this testimony is full of lies. Im not lying. I signed an after david. An after david . Thats correct. David signed and then i signed right after david. Wow. Cecily strong, not disappointing on snl with her portrayal of the Trump Campaign socalled witness in the michigan, again, so called hearing. A lot happened despite the ongoing results, joe biden has officially secured enough electors to become president. That guy has got to be tired of winning. He keeps winning. He keeps on winning. That came when california certified its Election Results on friday and appointed 55 electors pledged to vote for biden putting biden over the 270 threshold of states that have certified the Election Results. Despite that, one month after election day, just 27 Congressional Republicans acknowledged joe bidens clear victory over President Trump. Washington post survey of all 249 republicans in the house and senate began last week that found that two republicans considered trump the winner overall. Evidence showing otherwise and another 220 gop members of the house and senate and about 88 of all republicans serving in congress will simply not say who won the election. Also since late last week, President Trump and Republican Party allies lost five more election cases. In nevada, arizona, michigan, minnesota and wisconsin with the federal judge there calling the Trump Campaigns requests to nullify Election Results quote, bizarre. Meanwhile, President Trump headlined a rally in georgia on saturday. Intended to build support for the two republican candidates whose tight runoff elections will determine control of the senate but he spent much of the time listing his own grievances. There was little mask wearing at the event even though a day before georgia had recorded the highest number of new covid cases yet. And you may remember that toward the end of the election, those staged behind the president wore masks for the cameras. But saturday night, even that section most of the supporters went without masks. And speaking of the coronavirus, we learned yesterday that Rudy Giuliani is now the latest member of President Trumps circle to test positive for covid19. Last night, giuliani tweeted, thank you to all my friends and followers for all of the prayers and kind wishes. Im getting great care. Of course he is. And feeling good. Recovering quickly and keeping up with everything. Well, isnt that nice for him . With us we have White House Reporter and Associated Press reporter jonathan lemire. Host of Msnbcs Politicsnation and president of the National Action network, reverend al sharpton. Nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt. Good to have you with us this morning. Lets go through a couple of these top stories. Biden wins again. He keeps winning. Hes won. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, hes won, but he keeps getting declared the winner. Court cases dismissed as bizarre. Republican judges, democratic judges, trump appointed judges dismissing these cases as bizarre. And the Washington Post survey that only 27 republicans are now admitting that joe biden won the president ial race, that Everybody Knows joe biden won in washington, d. C. Mitch mcconnell had said from the start, kasie hunt, if we count all the votes and then the president has his Court Challenges and those are resolved then we can move on. Thats happened. Over 270 electoral votes have been certified and yesterday only 27 republicans are acknowledging that joe bidens the winner. This is a Republican Party that at least in washington, d. C. , has moved on to a post democracy phase where they we can look at state legislators in pennsylvania, republicans, who are actually signing letters saying they want to throw out tens of millions well, not tens of millions but millions and millions of votes in pennsylvania. They want to move beyond democracy. They want to dismiss Election Results that dont suit them just like, you know, dictators in russia or dictators in iran or dictators in venezuela would do. Well, behind the scenes, joe, republicans are acting, acknowledging, operating under the reality that we all know to be true, which is that joe biden is going to take office on january 20th. But they are refusing to say it in public as the Washington Post very carefully documented with all of their hard work. I mean, Mitch Mcconnell has already referred to the quote unquote new administration. He did not do that with any fanfare. It was something that was it was a brief moment in a regularly scheduled press conference. It came and went. A lot of people obviously read into that, but as we know mcconnell and joe biden have a relationship already and its clear that that relationship is already influencing negotiations on capitol hill over government funding and covid relief. But whats happening in public doesnt line up with that. And the reality is that Republican Voters, people who support President Trump are listening to President Trump, who is saying things in public, who is filling that void and you can see in focus groups, in polling, you know, people who are talking to these voters on the ground, i mean, open up the facebook feed of anyone who is inclined to be open to believing what the president is saying and its pretty clear that this is the message thats getting out. And i think the question is going to be does it last . What happens in 202122, you have talked about i know about President Trump and where he goes in here. Probably nowhere. Hes now lost in your words, but i think this damage thats being done is something that is unpredictable. We havent seen it before. We havent had a Political Party that has collectively at the National Level said this. You know, not been willing to do this. I mean, if you think back to anyone of the elections, everyone would have been outraged if obama wasnt declared the winner and everyone is still angry over how al gore was handled in the 2000 election. Tomorrow is the safe harbor deadline and they have to be certified so we can figure out who the president will be when they formally meet the following week. They can still step up or they can step up now if they choose to. I dont know if well see it. Yeah. It is remarkable what we saw this weekend. Just like its been remarkable what we have seen over the last four weeks. Its been staggering what we have seen over the last four years. I read and reread joan didion a lot of these days as she was coming to terms with the radicalism of the 1960s, feeling like she lived in a country that she no longer understood. And i just thought i thought how remarkable it was that when i was a small child, my family was scared and i think most of Middle America was scared by a lot of the radical changes they saw in a country they didnt recognize anymore and here we are 50 years later and a lot of americans are scared again. And let me if you dont mind, let me read this as i saw the scenes out of eldosta. Joan didion after seeing what happened in haightashbury. This is the first time i dealt with the proof that all things fall apart. I was paralyzed by the conviction that the world as i had understood it no longer existed. It was the trail of intention gone haywire. And she and slouching towards bethlehem she also talks about the hemorrhaging. She says it was not a country in open revolution, it was not a country under enemy siege. It was the United States of america and the market was steady. The gdp was high. And it might have been a spring of brave hopes and natural promise, but it was not. And more and more people had the uneasy apprehendtion that it was not. All that seemed clear was that at some point we had aborted ourselves and butchered the job. And so i went to San Francisco. San francisco was where the social hemorrhaging was showing up. It was where the missing children were gathering. It was where they were calling themselves hippies. Reverend al, here we are from haightashbury in 1967 and joan didion talking about a world going haywire and we fast forward to 2020 and its valdosta, georgia, and its People Living in another world. A people just like the hippies that joan didion was describing in 1967 that were trying to create an alternate reality. And how absolutely bizarre that this is where conservatism ended in response to the craziness of the 1960s and it is, by the way, i was there every step of the way. There i was in the Baptist Church every step of the way. I was there in the conservative movement. Every step of the way. I was there in the white suburban ya every step of the way. I represented it every step of the way. I have been living in northwest florida, every step of the way and living in suburban communities every step of the way, where people are pushing back against the radicalism of the 1960s and as joan didion said, it was an intention. It was a trail, it had gone haywire. And you look at what happened this weekend. As a representative of everything that we have seen over the past four years and this is the mirrored reflection of haightashbury in 1967, except the radicals who are trying to tear down the institutions, the radicals who are trying to undermine america, that are trying to create an alternate reality now, are donald trump and his socalled conservative followers. No doubt about it. I think what didion describes and i lived in that era as well on the other side as a young black activist clergyman, but the difference i think in this kind of move and kind of disregard and bringing down of institutions is it is being led by the president of the United States and those that are in charge of those institutions. There is a huge difference, same kind of move, but a huge difference when you have people that go to haightashbury or other places that drop out or try to redefine what society is and is not, and in those that are in charge of those institutions and societies, that decide that theyre going to in some way change how those institutions that they are in charge of and that under the rules became in charge of that. Were going to change the rules now. This is not being led by a hippie smoking some marijuana on a mountainside in california or dropping lsd with timothy leary. This is the president of the United StatesWalking Around with the football. But rev, i completely understand. Im talking though about the masses of people that my parents would look at absolutely. And they would look at the people and they would say, who are these people . What are they doing . Where did they come from . And now, we understand and know, you and i better than most, understand and know who donald trump is. But we look at all of those people in the crowd who are following an authoritarian, who are following a fascist leader, who want to overturn democratically elected results and im asking the same question of them. No moral equivocation between someone dropping acid in haightashbury and the president of the United States trying to turn this into the authoritarian country. None whatsoever. But were talking about a sick society and a large part of that society who have lost their way and you look in those crowds in valdosta and thats what frightens me. Its not donald trump. It frightens me that those people hate democracy so much, those people have been so swayed by a fascist leader that they now are actively calling for the overturning of millions and millions of votes and will risk getting sick. At the risk of getting sick, yeah. And what is is a coup. The head of state has been able to lure them into this. They feel protected because hes the head of state, but the fact is what is motivating this antiinstitutional societal kind of structure that theyre now totally swept up in to wiping away. I think youre absolutely right and the point is that they have gotten to such a level to where they will rip the face mask off their face and risk their own health. I mean, what gets you out there . You are the ones fighting the people that did that in the 60s. You have become the opposite side of that, to what end . I really think that youre right. The disturbing part is who is in the crowd that is going for that even when you have a Senate Candidate standing up there that is in the u. S. Senate that cant flatly say, yes, the president lost and there was no fraud in my state. Where are we, how did we get here . There will be a lot of questions that we have to answer over the years to come. If we get the chance, because were not there yet, honestly. Lets get to some must read opinion pages. In his latest oped entitled Jonah Goldberg writes for the dispatch, quote, if six months ago i were to describe the last month to politicians still rewarding and encouraging trumps behavior, most would say i was succumbing to trump derangement syndrome. Oh, come on, he wouldnt do that theyd say. Even those who thought the affront might be possible theyd take great offense if i followed up with not only will he try to steal the election with deranged conspiracy theories, but you wont say boo about it. In fact, you will even say he should run again. Well, thats happened. They created this selfdestructive mess. They created it by refusing to take the right path not just because the right path was hard, but because the wrong path was so easy. The safest road to hell is the gradual one. The gentle slope, soft underfoot, without milestones, without sign posts. Now america isnt in hell, but the people who did nothing or far too little are daily beset by lesser, fresher hells of their own making while im making popcorn. The gloriously entertaining trump and his progeny having to deal with wood and powell and their minions is enough to turn their homebrewed dumpster juice into the delicious elixir sweeter than liberal tears. Thats one way of putting it. Angry. I love it. Peggy noonans latest for the wall street journal is entitled who will be 2020s Margaret Chase smith . History can sometimes help us through current moments by showing whats needed and providing inspiration. It is her declaration of conscious speech for which Margaret Chase smith is best remembered. It was 1950. And she was increasely disturbed by Joe Mccarthys anticommunist crusade. She accused the democrats of showing laxness and complacency toward the threat of communism here at home and the republicans of allowing innocent people to be smeared. When history hands you a mccarthy, reckless, heedlessly manipulating the followers be a chase smith. If the mccarthy is saying the whole National Election was rigged an entire system corrupted, youd recognize such baseless charges, damaged democracy itself. You wouldnt let Election Officials be smeared. You would likely pay some price but years later, youd still be admired for who you were when it counted so much. Ronald reagans speechwriter and wall street journal editorial opinion page writer, peggy noonan. I dont understand the why its hard right now. Its not. Its not. Its just not. Theyre cowards. Its not. You can hide behind a lot of things if you need to cower, republicans. You could hide behind science, its not hard. They have been the votes have been certified now. So the votes have been counted. You could also hide behind that. The votes have been counted as Mitch Mcconnell said. They have been challenged in court. Joe bidens won every one of those challenges. The wall street journal editorial page and National Review editorial page have said the charges are baseless that donald trump is bringing forward and now the elections have been certified. There is no excuse. You have no excuse anymore, republicans. None whatsoever. Other than you dont care about democracy enough to defend against a tyrant who is trying to undermine the votes of over 81 million americans. Jonathan lemire, so we have been talking too much the first 20 minutes of this show about never land, a president and his followers who are living in a parallel universe. One that disappears on january the 20th, at least as has to do with this election. You actually are in the real world of wilmington, delaware, where joe biden and his team, where theyre getting ready to assume power and for joe biden to raise his right hand and take the oath of office 12 00 noon. Whats happening in wilmington this week . Wilmington has become sort of the unlikely center of the political universe here in the United States right now. Joe, its a sharp contrast from what we are seeing from President Trump and his allies in washington and over the weekend in georgia. As you say, it was a disconnect from reality. The words from uttered from the stage from President Trump at that rally where sure, he hit he read some scripted lines abo