Call them right now. That was way too early for a monday morning. Dont go anywhere. Morning joe starts right now. We have an announcement to make, joe biden is president elect of the United States. In the state of georgia, where theres currently a hand recount being done, joe biden is the apparent winner. Nbc news is projecting that when every last vote is counted in the state of arizona, joe biden will be awarded 11 electoral votes. Joe biden is again confirmed as the winner of the state of georgia. Trump Campaign Paid for a recount and that has ended for 3 million. They picked up 87 votes. Joe biden actually. Georgias secretary of state recertified the results after the second recount which once again found that joe biden is still the winner. Joe biden has officially received enough electoral votes to become president as california certifies the results. The United StatesSupreme Court has denied a challenge from a republican congressman to nullify the certification of pennsylvanias election votes over the mailin voting law. Breaking news. The Supreme Court has formally rejected the gop lawsuit that had tried on a long shot bid to argue that states should overturn over states results that should result in joe biden being president elect. I want to note, is he tired of being winning yet . Hes got to be exhausted. I heard that expression years ago, do you get tired of winning . Damn straight. It took five years for you to come through on that, mr. President. But yes, i think most of americans are just tired of winning. Watching joe biden, day after day after day and the lawsuits getting crushed by your own trump appointed federal judges who you were so sure would rig the election for you. Keeps letting you down. You really, really should have read the constitution and a little bit of history before you got into office. I heard you had mein kamp by your bedside, you should have had the constitution. The supreme justices they cant do what you want them to do. From the pricey recounts to the Supreme Court slapdowns this mornings meeting of the Electoral College when joe biden and Kamala Harris will once again win the white house. Going to win the day. Biden going to win the day. You know, he really could have he could have handled this in a way, actually, that would have been in his best interests. My gosh. Go ahead and say it was rigged and dada dada, mailin ballots and blah blah blah and locusts descending from the heavens, blah blah blah, give your statement and then say, im going to move on. Then finish strong over your last two months. And dont set yourself up for losing every single day which you still keep doing. It does not work. It makes you look week and pathetic for all the countries you want to go around to and grift off of. You think the saudis want somebody that loses like 50 or 60 times . I know you want to go there and make money. You think the chinese, the russians want like a 30 or 40 time loser . Youre playing this all wrong. The back drop oh, lets get the guy thats lost 50 times and make a speech for 10 million. Like youre hurting your own grifting schemes in the future by setting yourself up to lose every single time. So today, joe biden and Kamala Harris are expected to easily amass the 270 electoral votes needed for victory and the first states vote at 10 00 a. M. The next step is january 6th when a joint session of congress meets to count the votes. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is monday, december 14th. And with us we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press jonathan lemire. Nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early u kasie hunt. And host of Msnbcs Politicsnation and president of the National Action network, reverend al sharpton. Jonathan lemire, how do you expect today to go . I think a couple of people didnt vote for trump back in 16, we expecting any strays out there . Joe, were looking for that. Thats always a possibility. But what i can guarantee you will happen today is more rage and fury from the white house and baseless allegations of a rigged process, indeed. Electors are going to meet in all 50 states today and the District Of Columbia to cast their ballots. These are ones that are certified in the first week of january. That is yet another point where trump and his allies perhaps will play a stunt thats when congress meets to certify the result. None of this will change of course the ultimate result. More defeats for President Trump, but again, more dangerous efforts to undermine the faith in the electoral system and the credibility of joe bidens election. Yeah. A lot of crack pots who actually would have been crack pots regardless of what donald trump did. Like democrats have crack pots and they have had crack pots in the past. We thought george w. Bush was on the inside of the 9 11 attacks, dont get pissed at me. Ive got the polls, democrats. But yeah, but the difference there is it was crack pots, in the far reaches of the internet who were pushing that. Here, kasie, we have the president of the United States acting in a more dangerous way. He had over 100 members of congress who were calling for sedition. Calling for sedition against the United States of america. Who were calling to undermine an American Democratic process. Its not an overstatement, it really isnt. And these people are posing the greatest risk, the greatest threat to american democracy. The greatest challenge since the civil war. They suck at what theyre doing. They really suck at this. Theyre just horrible. Its all gestures. And the losers that signed on to this bill, they suck at this too. But again, its all gestures. That said, its a horrible precedent because there may be a totalitarian in waiting thats going to go to school on everything that donald trump has done. Hey, republicans, guess what, it might be a democrat. It might be an independent. Might be a fascist, a marxist, you dont know. Youre being stupid as hell sniffing this guy, following him around until the very end. All that said, kasie, how is that a leadup for this question. What are you hearing on capitol hill . Well, i have a feeling ill be hearing more after that, but no, look, these members of congress are still afraid of donald trump. And they are more afraid of what he may do to them than they are of what they are doing to the country. Which i think tells you a lot. You know what about their own reputation . Doesnt wait. Do they not really care what their children think of them, what their spouses think of them . What their grandchildren think of them, what history is going to think of them . Are they really so afraid whats gonna happen over the next four weeks that theyre willing to shame themselves . Like this is they do know historians are going to write about this chapter in American History and theyre going on on the side of sedition. Theyre the modernday Benedict Arnolds trying to undermine democracy. Theyre more scared about a reality tv host than they are being that dramatically wrong about american democracy and history . I feel like i have been asking that a version of that question to so many people of these members of the Republican Party, both privately and publicly, in public interviews and privately and they all find a way to push back against it. I think privately, yeah, they realize that history is going to judge this period likely in a very harsh way. But that doesnt seem to change their public actions and theres a handful of exceptions as we know. But every time, right, every single time its a little worse than the time before. In the beginning it was nasty insults, things outside the norm but not necessarily full of, you know, policy heft or significant consequences that youre laying out now. Eventually it was the bible across Lafayette Square and then i ive said this to you as we were heading into the election that all of my reporting indicated that they werent going to go down this road. They werent going to take down the republican, trash the republican brand in the name of donald trump if it was clear that he lost the election. They just werent going to do it and here we are and thats whats happening. This status quo of deferring to donald trump just has not ended and to the point that theyre signing on to lawsuits like this. So i mean, at this point its really hard to believe for me to believe even when i hear people say, yeah, we understand how bad this is yeah, this is obviously a huge problem it doesnt reflect america or my values but were trying to figure out how to live with it. I cant its hard to believe them anymore. The republican leader of the state of texas, reverend al, called in effect for secession. That they secede from the union because the United StatesSupreme Court followed the law. They had no choice but to follow the law and as the new as the National Review pointed out last night, i believe it was, even when the Trump Lawyers go before the judges they have no facts to support their outrageous claims and in fact call no witnesses because they have no witnesses. Introduce no evidence because they have no they stipulate to the facts on the record at the beginning of the case which means we agree with the biden camp, we have nothing here. Weve got nothing here, judge, because they know of course if they put out a false claim they will be sanctioned by the court. And yet, texas is going to secede from the nation . Im wondering how does that do for Business Development . Like what Companies Want to move into the state where the most dominant party is now calling for the state of texas to secede from the union. When you walk through the halls of congress as you have as a member of congress, when you walk through the hallowed halls of the senate or the white house, the consistent thing is is the great pictures of the people throughout the nations history. Do they really think anyone will when they get to this period and look at their pictures think of them as anything but symbols of disgrace, of people that tried to rip this country apart because of their personal fears of a demagogue . I dont understand how you walk through history every day to your job and never think of how youre going to look in history. This will be one of the pivotal moments in American History and in the middle of a pandemic and election. This will be a real point where history stops and takes an observation. And they will be permanently recorded as cowards and people that bow to someone who was a shallow and in many ways selfserving and megalomania and they didnt have the courage to stand up to him because were not talking about evidence here. Were not debating which way america should go conservative or liberal. Were talking about people that is too cowardly to stand up for the constitution that they put their hand on the bible and swore to uphold. They carry around the cute Little Pocket institution and dont believe in anything there and perversely enough actually claim to be dedicated to the original intent of the framers. Well, the original intent of the framers is not for them to subvert democracy, to undermine american institutions. Theyre making fools of themselves every day and yes, mika, the president Everybody Knows the president is lying in congress. Yet, they sign on to these seditious letters and trying to undermine an election that they know is legitimate when they get off the record theyll tell you that. What is it doing . Well, its inspiring actually violence. White supremists roamed through the streets of washington, d. C. And beat up and knifed people in washington, d. C. And thats the sort of violence that donald trump has been encouraging thats the sort of violence that the republicans are responsible for because again theyre spreading this lie. And preachers are responsible for it. Theyre spreading this lie. Death beth moore yesterday condemned Christian Nationalism where, you know, basically Christian Nationalism being code words for being instead of being a fellowship of christ, being part of a trump personality cult. Very dangerous. And beth moore said it. Other people have said it. But you have religious leaders across america who were lying to their people. Lying to their flock, buying into the trump derangement cult that theyre a part of and they know its a lie. The blood of people getting beaten up by white nationalists as well and they know it. Well, look at the number on the screen as we get so close to 300,000 dead from the coronavirus. Thats your back drop with ers that are overflowing with patients. Some that are maxed out. And this happening across america. As long as trump is enough, as long as hes there, this damage will continue and you get the feeling every day that he doesnt plan on leaving. Hes going to leave, as we said, hes going to leave, hes got no choice. Right now, the very first doses of coronaviruss vaccine are making their way to hundreds of hospitals across the country. Health care workers and nursing home residents are expected to get the very first shots today. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez captured not only the rollout of the first vials in michigan, but also low the vaccines are being transport. Reporter this a rare look at the painstaking process, sub arctic freezers holding the potentially life saving vaccines and then vials packed into the boxes and shipping containers filled with dry ice. A reminder of how tough this mission is. Gingerly rushing a medical marvel to all 50 states and 80 degrees below zero. This is a historic moment. The first trucks carrying the vaccine, pulling out of the pfizer plant escorted by u. S. Marshals. Its the moment so Many Americans have been waiting for after such a devastating year thats taken the lives of nearly 300,000 people across this country. That is delight ahead of us you hear the cheers behind gabe as the trucks are rolling out. Yeah. With good reason, joe. For good reason, and jonathan lemire, we heard that the white house may be getting the first vaccines which of course doesnt make a lot of people happy. But i must say, if you want to make sure you prioritize things, yes, probably be good to have the white house and the joint chiefs and the leaders of Congress Getting vaccines early. Well, joe, what happened yesterday was more of the mixed messaging weve heard from this white house throughout this pandemic. Lets remember of course, from the beginning they poured a lot of money into the vaccine and the president would say this is the end game, the vaccine is what theyre working towards even as they were blatantly disregarding health and Safety Measures throughout the pandemic. Then but by doing so, by downplaying the threat of course, he planted a lot of doubt in the supporters minds about whether or not how real this virus is, how seriously they should be taking it and theres real concern on the Coronavirus Task force, among dr. Fauci and others that the antiscience view that the white house has taken throughout the pandemic may in fact discourage people from taking the vaccine. That they dont want to trust it. They dont think they need it, arguments along those lines. So yesterday, of course as the first shipments start to roll out, word gets out the National Security council said among the first doses as well as the Front Line Health Care workers and Senior Citizens that the top officials across the federal government to keep this country going, would indeed be among some of the first to get those doses. That includes white house staff. There was some blow back to that. And in many cases they didnt take this seriously, but this is safeguarding the continuity of government, the people who work around the president and then last night President Trump counters that, saying thats not the case. He does not believe the white house officials should be getting the vaccine at the beginning which appeared to be according to our reporting a blowback to some of the Media Coverage. Suggesting no, we dont need it right away. He didnt want that sort of black eye in terms of pr and this further muddles the conversation and further confuses the messaging to his supporters about whether or not this vaccine is needed. If the white house doesnt need it, why should we . That is of course of great concern and this complicates things for the Biden Administration coming in. Very of course trying to push the use of the vaccine including among their own staff, worried about the president elects health and others. This comes as the white house is launching a more than 200 million very tardy ad campaign to boost awareness of the vaccine, to suggest that americans need to use it, because they have been hearing on the show though its a modern miracle that the vaccine is ready so quickly, it doesnt do anybody any good if people dont take it and further confusing messaging from the white house only hurts that cause. Of course, when it first came out, i thought thats going to put President Trump in a difficult position because a lot of the antivaxxers, people spreading conspiracy theories like Anthony Fauci has three heads and killed a lot of people during the aids epidemic, he has the vaccine that he and bill gates and the Trilateral Commission are going to make t