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MSNBCW MSNBC Live With Katy Tur November 25, 2020

New cases two weeks in a row. Hospitals are teetering on the brink of disaster and administrators are warning in just one month, in time for christmas, their beds will be full if there are not serious moves to flatten the curve right now. There is a vaccine just around the corner. Robert redfield says the first doses could go to Nursing Homes as soon as next month. And President Joe Biden says he will work with the white house to make sure the Distribution Process is teamless. Yes, help is on the way, but help is not here yet. Right now the best help you can get and give is by staying home and staying safe. Let us start in delaware with nbc news political reporter. Were expecting joe biden pretty soon. Walk us through what is going on here. The focus on the reality that is happening r if so Many Americans right now. Especially if theyre listening to the guidance that you just mentioned that those small gatherings at homes, seeing family that are normal for thanksgiving are not the best thing to be doing this year. Booid listen speak to that moment and assure americans that despite the fatigue, we will get through this. They expect them to reference that the death toll is rising, cases are rising in this country, and we have seen biden make the case that we need to tackle this coronavirus pan determine uk by getting a vaccine out to americans and mostly by doing what is in our own control right now. Staying home and also Wearing Masks and social distancing. All key pieces of this as they try to show and tell americans how they should be acting. I think it was very clear yesterday, we saw all of the people there being careful. It is the kind of leading by example that we have not seen from the Current White House and that the white house in waiting is trying to espouse before taking power. How can he working with the white house to make sure the vaccine Distribution Process will be seemless . Now the fact that they can Start Talking about the people in the agencies, that has been the biggest move shift here. Also we heard from biden himself overnight he is no longer talking about the lives that could be lost because of the wait time and the lag time baked into that transition. Now that they have a letter of ascerta ascertainment, this is a team that is just forging ahead. Trying to prioritize handling the pandemic, and that is something theyre able to do now as we heard just in 24 hours later, they connected and contacted more than 50 agencies and they have been scheduling virtual meetings, having the virtual rounds of briefings, and getting in on the nuts and bolts trying to get the government up to speed. That also includes talking to the white house chief of staff, as well as mark meadows, the current chief of staff of the white house. But trump and biden themselves have not yet connected. It is something that biden said yesterday to lester holt. I asked transition officials babt this today. Do they think that biden needs to talk to trump. They said that is not something they deem mission krmission cr. But theyre open to receiving that contact but they dont think it is essential to moving forward and planning their government. Ali, thank you very much. That is looking ahead to january. Lets talk about what is happening right now. States across the country continue to break records for new covid19 cases and deaths. As assistant secretary for health brett gerard says the fall surge is here and it is getting worse. The send in sight, but right now were at a critical very dangerous part of this pandemic with cases rising, hospitalizations rising, we had over 1900 americans die yesterday. I urge america just for a few more weeks, a couple more months, follow the guidance. Joining me now from ft. Worth, texas is morgan chesky. Also joining me is dr. Amis amish adalja. What are you seeing in texas . What are they most concerned for . Yeah, the answer to that is theyre absolutely concerned right now, theyre afraid if these numbers continue to tick up the way they are right now they would be reaching that imaginary wall. The place that puts patients at a higher risk of danger because theyre so short staffed and they running out of room. Here at texas health in ft. Worth they looked back in the past month. Hospitalizations have gone up 75 . They fear that intensive care units could be at max capacity in a week. They looked at space in dallas and ft. Worth and theyre afraid if the numbers contribute theyre looking at a 30 paso is. They have more than dallas. Theyre bringing in more of those mobile morgues. This is the emergency that everyone thought they were experiencing in the summer time when they were breaking records then. Now that were surpassing those there is a real fear here. The concern is not necessarily physical space, it is the fact that they need bodies. They need nurses to be able to be fresh, to treat some of these patients in here. Staffing and incredibly serious concern right now because youre looking at men and women that have been covering this pandemic now for months on end. They dont know where the end is either. So administrators are trying to make sure that staffing is full right now. Do whatever you can to dry to drive down some of the numbers. As it stands right now, when you look at what theyre saying, its not sustainable to go forward the way they are. I want to sum up quick what one doctor told me. People are going to try to have a normal happy thanksgiving with their friends and family and theyre only setting themselves up. What are you sees on the streets there . Are they Wearing Masks and taking the guidelines seriously . I think the proof is in the numbers, if you go back to the summer time. Texas was hitting those in july and august. Governor greg abbot attributing to the success. And the numbers started to fall. There was a concern of the second surge coming in the Holiday Season. People admitting that yeah, there is a little pandemic fatigue here, and you see the numbers and you realize that if people dont act and do their part well be right back where we started. And frankly the numbers are worse and that can continue to be the case here in texas. As far as what i have personally witnessed i think that people are taking a greater responsibility but the Holiday Season is the Holiday Season and covid does not take a break when it comes to that. You have to ask yourself if it is worth it. If it is all worth it. If youre going to lose a seat at the table if someone gets really cool. There are new guidelines from the cdc that were expecting. Let me just read it. There is a new quarantine period likely between seven and ten days and include a test to make sure that a person is negative for covid19 said the agencies Incident Manager for covid19 response. So a shorter quarantine what is your assessment of that . I want to see the data. I think there is likelihood for more symptoms for the first seven days more than the last seven days. And it is something that we know team will comply with better. If it can be even or ten using new technology, newnology technology or testing. If it doesnt come back today 15, day 11, or day 12, can it doesnt shorten it that much. There is a covid 19. There is a number of vaccines you have to get in order to go to Public Schools in this country. This according to the tennessee governor will not be one of them. Where do you fall on that. You have to remember that the Clinical Trials do not include pediatrics. When we get an emergency use authorization its not for pediatrics. It is not something that is part of the requirements like the measles measles. We have to understand if this is safe and effective. If it gets an fda indication, it seems like theyre indicated. Think about it as a required school entry and i think that will come down the line. And that age cohort. If you were advising joe bidens team about the transition, the period where he takes over from the Trump Administration. As this vaccine potentially is already being distributed around the country, what would your one big red flag be for them to watch out for to make sure this continues if it starts by then, continues without a hitch . Operation warp speed has been one bright spot in this pandemic response. So we want to continue and we want to make sure that not only can we make the vaccine, can we manufacture it in high enough doses, but making sure we do that last mile. Making sure that states have the ability to pay for the Vaccine Development program, which is a grease guess, great success. So having the support to be able to put this vaccine into peoples arms and get this pandemic behind us. Some people out there are watching us hearing us say listen, dont have a big thanksgiving gathering, dont travel, limit your exposure, theyre saying are you doing that to the people on television wondering if were not practicing what we preach. Let me ask you what are you doing for the thanksgiving holiday . I have never been a major thanksgiving person. I tend to avoid my family for other reasons even when there is not a pandemic. So i usually spend it with friends that are part of my pod, but very small type of thing, nothing major. And probably wont go to the bar afterwards to people watch like i usually do as well. No family holidays for a lot of us, they can sometimes end in screaming matches. I dont know if thats your family, im not passing judgment, but i understand. Thank you for being on with us and being honest. Ahead, president elect joe biden is filling his cabinet, what are the chances one of his top posts could go to a republican . And Donald Trumps last ditch effort to change the election outcome. Will it change a thing . Election outcome will it change a thing [ engines revving ] its amazing to see them in the wild like th shhh. [ engine revs ] for those who were born to ride, theres progressive. And im still going for my best. Even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. So if theres a better treatment than warfarin, im on top of that. Eliquis. Eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. Plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. Eliquis is fdaapproved and has both. Whats next . Getting out there. 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Would that make republicans in congress feel better . Or more likely to work with joe biden on legislative issues . Katie, a few thoughts here. Number one, barack obama had ray lahood as his transportation secretary. He didnt get a ton of support for his infrastructure policies or anything of that nature. I dont think this would get republicans to support him. Further more you have to just look at the dialogue right now on the left over some of the appointments that biden is making or not making. Bruce reed, a long time biden world insider under consider for office of management and budget. But some of the justice democrats and left parts of the party are rising up in anger over this. So you have to look at what people are saying would he nominate democrats. People believe, democrats believe, nancy pelosi says it, that democrats have a mandate to do big things. I dont know that the left would see it as spending that mandate to put a republican in the cabinet. I think you would see a lot of anger in the halls of capitol hill hill. I wonder if you would sigh danger on the streets of america. After all of this divisive rhetoric and the anger that we have seen in the last, especially in the last four years, phil rutger, lets talk about what has been going on with the president. He is finally allowed the gsa to initiate the transition. They are still trying to overturn it. If it matters any longer where the president s head is at. This is a lost cause. At this point of two figures, rude i didnt do julianny, and the two attorneys keeping the lead on this continued challenge. In pennsylvania, today, they tried to structure up claims of voter fraud hes just not going to say sew. Hes not going to publicly concede. And others in the white house think the efforts by Rudy Giuliani and again in a ellis is a side show and not something to be taken terribly seriously. Phil knows this so well, the white house is basically empty and metaphorically in the sense that people are just tuning him out and have moved on to looking for new jobs and understanding even at the senior most levels people are talking about what they might be in and outside of the white house and it seems like the president elect is putting government together and is meeting with the Trump Administration officials, and trump is not even invited according to everythiaccor inviting biden to the white house. That is what we were told. When we wrote the play book this afternoon that trump is treating Rudy Giuliani on oaan. They are saying what is this guy doing. Without any evidence, no evidence of just any voter fraud of any serious attitude. The goofball show that is just bizarre. Let me ask you a more relevant question. The question that matters more, phil what are you are you hearing anything about what the president is planning on doing in the next month and a half while he is, whatever it is, a little less than two months while he is still in office. Any major policy moves, is he doing anything on the coronavirus. Is he working on it right now . He is not been working since the election. He has been playing golf and trying to strategize with his lawyers and friends about how to overturn the results. There is a couple things we can expect to see in the last two months between when joe biden sn is sworn in including further developments in the vaccine rollout. There is one piece of the Coronavirus Response that has the president s full attention. And i think as further steps happen including the unwork in e next two months to try to fortify some of the policy administrations. They are trying to overturn those actions. You might see other changes in the government, all trying to protect what trump sees as his president ial legacy. Phil ruth ber good to see you. At the very least youre eating a lot of turkey. Going ahead, the president is wonting his legal fight. The president continues his legal fight to challenge the outcome and how one of the Biggest School district Social Security rushing to make sure they have today on the table for the holidays. A son once returned home from afar and gave to his father a gift. It wasnt a thing of great meaning but a thing of quality and purpose. This gift was used well. Over 40 years this thing of quality of purpose. Became a thing of the heart. A thing of a son. Lelt me be clear about that. I have on my own time in pouring through hundreds and hundreds of affidavits across the united states, and looking at a lot of statistical analysis, and it aint over until its over. The voting is over, but the outcome has still not been determin determined. I believe there is evidence to suggest that guideline. The white house trade advisor living on earth two there. And while there are still no Public Events on President Trumps schedule his legal team is keeping busy looking into what he was talking about. They joined the republican state senators. The president s elite Strike Force Legal team, that is their name, is trying to claim pennsylvanias election wasnt fair. Joining me now nbc correspondent carol lee. So there is theyre saying all of these aftfidavits, they have not presented any of it in court. The point you just made is the most important one when you look at what you were just showing on the screen, there is nothing formal about that. That is in a ballroom. Thats not under oath, thats in a courtroom, that is people sitting in front of microphones saying things they can say because theyre not in any obligation to tell the truth. Youre seeing the president s personal attorney giuliani continuing to fight this battle. He is just not. And you talk to some of the president s advisors. They say he is the last guy that is going to do this. And the president wants to continue even though he allowed th this. People are coming out, making allegations without evidence to back this up. They get tossed out kind of repeatedly. They are having this basically a show with remember lawmakers in the state and it doesnt

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