Deterioration. They must sustain the hes system for both covid and noncovid emergencies. Even has his own experts insist, President Trump is missing in action. He has no Public Events scheduled today, no meetings with doctors or Public Health officials. And according to nbcs reporting he has not attended a Task Force Meeting in months. When he mentions the virus it is usually about bragging about vaccin vaccines. The Trump Administration is m. I. A. On that issue as well by delaying the formal transition process and making it less likely that the incoming election will be able to manufacture and distribute the vaccine. A claim that dr. Rick wright outlined this morning. We have been eld at an arms pace. We have no current plans from the administration. We do not have direct access to the data. So the delay of the asser tapement of this election is causing significant delays at this critical time point. Joe biden is doing everything that he can to discuss frontline workers needs going forward. From wilmington, jeff bennet. Always robert gibbs and dr. Mario ramirez. Everybody welcome and thank you for being here. Mike memoli, the biden team is do what they can, what are they most concerned about in terms of logistics. Sorry, jeff bennet, not mike memoli. Were interchangeable. No, youre not at all, im just so used to saying mike memoli when talking about the Biden Administration. Really to emphasize and under core we herd dr. Rick write say the Biden Transition Team doesnt have any insight into the medical supply chain or the case load data, the death count, or the hospitalization data. And to put this in more practical terms, the head of the Trump Administration vaccine effort just the other day said once a vaccine comes online they hope to vaccinate 20 million to 30 Million People per month. To have that happen you have to have enough glass viles, enough s s syringes. Then you need nurses to give the vaccine and theyre full ppe. So you knee the system that needs to be created. And once the biden team comes into the white house, once joe biden is inaugurated, if there are flaws and inefficiencies in that system, the biden team wont know it until it is happening and they will have to course correct in realtime. There is a number of risks here that put at risk the ability to make sure that all americans are vaccinated as quickly as possible and at a scale that is equitable. You know it is hard to figure out what sort of question to ask you. All we have gotten out of this white house is that they dont know, or they refuse to accept the results of the election. So im going to try to put it this by way reading a statement from the american medical association. As the provider of care for all americans we see the her honoring in our communities due to covid19. We see families who lost parents, children suffering from longterm effects, and we see minority populations suffering from the devastation of the covid19 pandemic. It is from this front line human perspective that we urge you to share Critical Data and information as soon as possible. Monica, can you hear me . Did you hear what i just read . Is anything swaying the president right now . I know the public pressure is that he is not seeing it. What about medical providers . Just look at yesterday for example, katy. They meat in the situation rook chaired by mike pence, but the president was not part of that meeting. He has not been since april or may. Now he relies on the advice of dr. Scott atlas, who doesnt have a background in pandemics. The president has not acknowledged the death count. The fact that of the in your opinions that have lost their lives, he has not acknowledged it for weeks, he has not taken questions from reporters since election day. What is notable about that is that the task force used to brief on a near daily basis on the early months of the pandemic when you saw cases not as high as they are right now. That is because dr. Fauci and dr. Burke said about what to look for. The group met and they did not come out and take questions. So the white house is simply ignoring this in a public facing way. Theyre taking victory laps on the Vaccine Development as you mentioned, but beyond that the president is not at all talking about the crisis that is still happening under his watch. It is bad, getting bad, getting worse ever day. The Coronavirus Task force shows that that team at least is taking this very seriously and theyre sounding alarms inter l internally. What i was most struck by is that hospitals are saying theyre overwhelmed for Covid Patients and nonCovid Patients. It reminds me of something that happened in new york. Balan ambulances were sold dont break cardiac arrest victims to the hospital if you cant revive them on the scene. We cant take them here. It is an awful situation. There is already do patients that have been there 24 hours. There are no beds left to put people in. We dont have the nurses, the teches, to staff the beds. That is the message that i am really trying to express to the public. If you come to a hospital, things could get worse in the next six weeks and there may be a chance that we cant help you. Many doctors have said the same thing. I think that folks can really see what that means and this is going to be worse than what we saw in new york. This is everywhere now. New york can be any city in america and im almost certain that it will be. Thats terrifying. It was very bad here. Dr. Ramirez, the biden team is trying to get the information that they can. He was saying that the biden team should be okay because all of the information on this pandemic is public. The data is out there. Do you agree . No, i mean i think that is completely untrue, right . The devil is in the details for any process like that. You can get a good idea of what is going on. That is not public information. Thats what the public deserves. Robert as someone that has been in this position before, what can the biden team do right now to prepare without the transition process as it looks like that. I think he has to go through meetings like his National Security team and other advisors, continuing to meet with his Covid Response team being important this is an alarming set of facts. It is 11 days and there has been no transition activity. The transition will be a third over. If we wait until the Electoral College meets, the transition will be half over. The effective continuity of our government requires a robust transition for our government for that to be effective. So the real question that i think we have to ask ourselves is if not now, when . It will be time for people in all walks of life, in all parties in washington to step forward and put pressure on this administration to get on with the business of the continuity of our government. He has every right to bush back and they believe there is inconsistencies with the election when there are not. And there is nothing to point to any state turning blue to red, or the president winning this election, but you hear a lot of excuses and information for the president refusing to concede. You may think that 11 cays does not sound that long, but what normally happens . The entire process, starts, right . They start going in and doing exactly what dr. Ramirez talks about. Meeting with counter parts. The vaccine will back logistical exercise. You know, from just a sheer standpoint of how you run a government, once nominations happen and once biden picks his cabinet, the fbi process of background checks has to start. Before the Senate Considers the nominees they will want to know their backgrounds are clean and that there are not any problems with their nominations. Bidens team will want to know that before that do that with anybody. You can get a lot of things in life and you cannot get more time. That is true in this transition. It may not sound like 11 days but it is only 74 days. What worries me is if this thing gets to the Electoral College were talking about half of that transition gone. Do you think the president is trying to sabotage the beginning of the Biden Administration . I hope he is not. I dont know that i want to go that far quite yet, but i think that people have to step up and look, lets go back in time to a far closer election. Bill clintons own Vice President al gore, and in that time period bill clinton allowed george w. Bush to get intelligence breechings and security briefings. In the event that he was elected president , he would be ready. There is certainly nothing in a would prevent the current Coronavirus Task force from interferin interfering. This continuity of government can only happen effectively if there is a robust transition. Even still, even with that access, the transition was rocky because of how unknown the election was and the 9 11 commission pointed out that buzz of that, because of that rockiness at that time, not even as rocky as it is now, that could have lead to the opening that Osama Bin Laden needed to take down the towers on 9 11 among other things. Thank you to my guests for joining us. We appreciate it. That aggressive spread that the White House Task force is warning about is hitting everywhere. Now there is real worry that americans that refuse to believe the virus is a problem will also refuse to take a vaccine. Next, the coup that wasnt. How two members of a ski electikey election win tried to up end black voters. He told the truth, and then he was fired for it. 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Be prepared for efforts to call into question the legitimacy of the election. Im confident that voter wills decide the 2020 election and you should be, too. In an act of retaliation with far reaching implications, President Trump fired the top Cyber Security official in this country. Christopher received rare bipartisan praise for his leadership of the Cyber Security agency, and bipartisan anger for his firing. Was that appropriate for the foth do . It is his prerogative, but i understand the confusion and the chaos, and im sure im not the only one that would like to return to a little more of a i dont even know what is normal anymore. The next normal, not the new normal. He fired our chief Election Security officer, an honorable public servant, because he confirmed that our elections were secure reinforcing the number one rule of working for donald trump, you can never tell the truth. It was lis blog designed to combat false claims about fraud and hacking that got under the president s skin. It ended up debunking the president as he and his allies were the ones who were repeating disinformation, lying about the election. He found out he was fired by reading it on twitter. He said im proud of the work we did at cisa, im proud of the teammates we had, we did it right. A former fbi special agent clint watts is joining me now. The nbc news team has been trying to report what happened to chris crabs. The agency has been working on it for some time now. There is institutions across the country, but ransom wear atakes on hospitals which are currently feeling the crunch. Chris krebs came into the cross hairs because of the election. But everything they have done is very critical an enjoyed bipartisan support, katy. Things like protecting hospitals from ransomware attacks. Especially as things like medical information and research that could be of value to foreign actors or cyber hackers gets so valuable in a time like this. So not only will the Incoming Administration lose out on some of the transition time, now we have someone like chris krebs with his knowledge being fired. So it doesnt just hurt the battle for the truth here, but hurts major institutional pieces that go into securing our countrys cyber fruinfrastructu. I know this is your universe, tell us about what kind of a hole it leaves to not have chris krebs at the top. But still, he was the head, he was head of the bipartisan action. What does it mean when Something Like this happens . He was put here to fill a hole. He secured confidence in all of the states where it not changed. His job was created to fill that hole. It begs the question, allowing conspiracies to unwind. Why cant we get measures around this. It erodes confidence. Russia doesnt have to do anything this time around. Making americans have confidence in it. That is why he went out to control these accounts. Without that there is no ammunition. In terms of voting machines, thats what we need, that is what the government is there for. Thats why the agency exists. So removing someone with bipartisan support, it is very hard to execute over time. And also the very least, what ewe n youre not going to see, is the same sort of push back that he was doing against disinformation. He was getting pressure about going on twitter and debunking a lot of this stuff. I guess going forward, as his allies continue to do this, and they refuse to bereave the election, youre not going to get that push back, i imagine any more, forcing away from the other folks still at cisa. If i could just add to this, he had bipartisan support because he was pushing back in a trusted way, he was confidence, he had experience in the field, and oh, by the way, he was performing and going out and going to bat for his employees. If you look at others in the organization, attorney general barr, for example, the way he talks about his justice department, the reason he got bipartisan support is he was representative of the agencies of the great people in these agencies that are working tirelessly to protect the election. He was fired, deputies have been resigning left and right what is the concern about the ability of this government to function properly in this precarious time . There seemed to be an escape plan. He put a career official in the number three and that is brandon whales who is now acting head of cisa who is really protected from those political mass firings and he has 15 years of experience in this area and he can continue to do some of that work. I dont know if he will be as out spoke b, but even before the election he was saying things very similar. It is career official thats will be dealing with this. Nowly say that some of the people getting fired actually then become resources for the Biden Administration. I dont know yet if they have been able to reach out to chris krebs, but i imagine he is the top of the list today as someone to talk to. Theyre essentially journalists now. They dont have any kind of clearance to talk to these people, but we try to figure out who left a place, who is trying to talk us now. I asked the biden team if they plan on reaching out to chris krebs. I know from a source familiar with krebs that he has not heard from anyone at the biden team. Might just be a matter of time. Thank you both so much. Breaking news out of new york city, starting tomorrow the schools will close because of covid19 if major bill deblasio says new york reached the 3 testing positivity 7day average threshold that was an agreement made between the mayor, parents, and teachers. 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