Briefing on the virus, his first public remarks he was largely silent though on the record surge in cases and the death toll, ignoring the alltime high in hospitalizations approaching 70,000 people. As you watch the next bit please remember. Lockdowns are up to governors and mayors. They are not a federal matter. Here is trump vowing no lockdowns but seems to suggest that the presidency might be ending in keeping with the voters wishes. I will not go. This administration will not be go to a lockdown. Hopefully whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be. I guess time will tell. Lockdowns cost lives and a lot of problems. The cure cannot be you have to remember cannot be worse than the problem itself. Starting with an acknowledge of how serious the Current Situation is. In the final weeks of the campaign you will recall trump predicted the u. S. Was rounding the turn and that we would not be talking about the virus after election day. That ran into a harsh reality with his white house becoming the focus of yet another outbreak. Post says that the spread is believed to be partly linked to Campaign Rallies that President Trump held in the weeks before the november 3rd election. Dont forget that on top of the secret Service Needing to go out in advance to protect the locations and be around the people, they were forced to travel and they had no choice but to fly all over the country, including states where the virus is surging. Joe biden was the president elect when we woke up this morning and his win if anything was further cemented today after arizona was called for biden on the broadcast last night, georgia was called for biden today. North carolina went for trump. Now that fills in the last blanks on the board. Final tally, biden 306 electoral votes, trump 232. Tonight we further learn 16 federal prosecutors assigned by bill barr to monitor for election irregularities found none and that trumps efforts to challenge the election in court have been defeated in pennsylvania, arizona, michigan, making for a series of legal setbacks today. Have the no fear. Tonight the New York Times is reporting that trump put his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani in charge of his campaign lawsuits. We last saw rudy at the press conference at four seasons total landscaping, prior to that we saw him lying on a Hotel Room Bed in borat. Rudys return hasnt gone over too well. A half dozen other trump advisors have described mr. Giuliani efforts as counterproductive and said he was giving the president unwarranted optimism about what could happen. We are moving forward at the white house under the assumption that there will be a second trump term. Any speculation about what joe biden might do i think are you prepared to say President Trump will definitely attend the inauguration . I think the president will attend his own inauguration. He would have to be there. You really think you can turn it around . Absolutely. This is still all going on and this from Geraldo Rivera who described the president s mood and feelings about conceding. I feel he is resigned to the fact that the Playing Field is very uneven when it concerns the president himself. He is very frustrated, flustered, disillusioned but he is also realistic. You know, he used that characterization himself about his own chances. He said he will do the right thing when the time comes but he wants every legitimate vote counted. Final note about the electoral vote tally of 306232. Nobody on the biden team is calling it a landslide, Kellyanne Conway did. In fairness back in 2016 when it was trump winning by the same margin. And back then as we were reminded today Kellyanne Conway said, and we quote, 306, landslide. Blowout. Historic. On that note lets bring in our guests, susan page, usa today Washington Bureau chief, jonathan charles. You may ask why is it we get to steal him away from the mothership. It is in his capacity as an author. He has written front row at the trump show and dr. Patel. These days a nonresident fellow at brookings and among our medical contributors. Susan, i would like to begin with you. Do you see a parallel between trumps original sin denialism of the virus and ongoing of his rather convincing loss . I do think that those are the too most. One is only now taking small steps forwards acknowledging that. The other is that he continues to ignore the terrible pandemic that gets worse and worse. As we head to thanksgiving, the holidays, every possibility of becoming more of a catastrophe than it has been. Doctor, we have hospitals filling up. We lost 1,300 people since the last broadcast last night. Today i think that people greeted with hope the briefing they were doing in the rose garden. The secretary got up from his remarks. It is hard to watch a grown result the way that he did publicly. There are news anchors in north korea who use less flowery language about their dear leader than he used about President Trump today. This guy has got a job. He is the head of a sprawling and a hugely important cabinet department. Do we all now have to wait 68 days to get the mitigation plan that we deserve . I think we will but the country cant afford it. We had enough cases equivalent to the size of knoxville, tennessee. Enough desks to approach all of the casualties of world war ii. It feels like between the rosie language we heard from the president , touting vaccines and making the American Public think a shot in the arm will annihilate the virus is not true. No conversation about mitigation measures or a stern warning about Holiday Travel or just being safe or an acknowledgment of the lack of the administrations response to protect the Nations Health care workers. They have all just aboved hope. That causes me an incredible amount of fear before january 20th. John carl, our mutual friend and a big friend of the show. The master of the black and white historical photo in addition to be the master of history in our country. Today he tweeted this out. A classic photo. 1944. He refused to leave his office on federal charges and they sent in the national guard. They brought him out seated. We know you have your choice in air travel. Michael had his choice to tweet out today with. That as the background what are the days like to cover at the white house . So strange. Top republicans on capitol hill. To a person just about they say look, of course it is over. We know it is over. The president knows it is over. He has to go through the process and run through the lawsuits. We will give him time to do that. Look at today, the setbacks in arizona and michigan. Triking language talking about the affidavits about not just being baseless but sloppy. In pennsylvania, five separate lawsuits. We have the type of frivolous lawsuits i have heard republicans, including Rudy Giuliani who i used to cover as a mayor in new york. Not so frivolous in their impact. They are going at the heart of our democratic process. Today in georgia there were lawsuits filed by a protrump lawyer that actually ask ed to throw out all absentee ballots, the military that voted absentee. Or to nullify georgias entire election. Just today, two separate law firms working for the trump team said they were opting out. Said they had enough leading to the move today to have Rudy Giuliani take over. My book starts interviewing and meeting donald trump for the first time when i was at city hall. Rudy giuliani had been made mayor. Now you have the guy that was americas mayor. You know, the real estate titan that pulled off the greatest upset in the history of american politics. One of them going down in history as perhaps the sorest loser in american politics and the other the purveyor of frivolous lawsuits aimed at the heart of american democracy. Very strange. At least we will have borat and four seasons total landscapes. Susan, none of us can wait the 45 minutes until this is no longer friday the 13th. I asked at least one of our guests if joe biden was doing enough with the material he had it is now clear the answer is yes and clear that democrats had a terrible night down ballot. That is subject for another time. What about the tools joe biden may possess to go to work on a deeply divided country. 306 electoral votes, more than 5 million votes more than his opponent got. Huge turn out. A turn out that we have not seen in a century. That gives him real standing to do things. The first thing gives him the mandate for what he needs and wants to do. But the situation at the ril will make that tough for him. Talk about what you call the medical malpractice that resulted in 130 members of the u. S. Secret service who have the ultimate bottom line on their job descriptions to take a bullet for the president of the United States in this case for the glory and the honor for working with the president. They are quarantining. I call it medical malpractice because if any of us had allowed such reckless behavior that we knew would engage and potentially put others at risk. Such as not wearing a mask or asking people to get into a closed container like a suburban vehicle and drive around with someone who is actively infected. We would be fired. Hospital doors would be closed. We would have our state licensure taken away because of a risk that was not meant to protect the president from a National Threat but simply to have his moment to say that he has been cured. To say this is not that bad. These are men and women i worked with in the past who do it without thinking. As if masks, when the president talks about the cure being worse than the disease. It is so simple as wearing a two ply fabric mask. Some of the best friendships that i made were members of the secret service, to this day. Before we lose you to the clutches of abc news, talk us through the point of decapitating your own Intelligence Community on the way out of the door. You know, it is really something to see the moves that need to be made. The 9 11 Commission Said transitions are points of vulnerability for national security. That is why it is important. We have a decapitation of the civilian leadership. Great thanks to the big three on the friday night. After the week we have had, susan page, jonathan carl, dr. Patel. Greatly appreciate you coming on. Coming up for us, the poetic justice democrats are finding in the election result. Later, the man who wrote the book on tyranny gives us his take on trumps futile attempt to rewrite the election, even though his powers of president expire at 12 00 known on tnoon h of january. Noon on the 12th of january our election board got all filled in. The final tally, joe biden with 306 electoral votes, donald trump with 232. Make no mistake, 306 to 232 is a convincing score, a convincing victory as we have been reminded over the past four years. We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College. We won by a landslide. Actually got their ass kicked. 306223. We won the Electoral College by a lot. That is a tremendous victory. Really a landslide from the electoral standpoint. 306223. That is a slaughter. That is a slaughter. I won decisively. 306223. That is a lot. Two friends of the broadcast join us once again. Steve schmidt who led the mccain 08 campaign and has left the Republican Party after a life in politics and among the founder of the Lincoln Project. Author, activist, comedian and former producer for the daily show with trevor noah. Feels the say way about trump and trumpism as mr. Schmidt. How to citizen, welcome to you both. Mr. Schmidt, before you say a word i want to roll for the audience the latest work from the Lincoln Project. Most Republican Leaders are refusing to accept the outcome of the democratic process. It is shameful. Cowardly. Unamerican. Across the globe republicans are acting like russia, iran, north korea, china. Are these republicans not americans . Steve schmidt, a dual question for you. What is your Battle Damage assessment on the effect that the Lincoln Project had on the president ial election and are you on the ground in georgia . What can you do there that Stacey Abrams is not doing or hasnt already done . I think we were part of a coalition that helped joe biden amass the most votes in american history. I think we took the fight to donald trump. I think we played a key role in the counties that we targeted. We made a stand against trump and trumpism. We fought for what we believed was the right. That is what you are called to do as an american citizen when you see a wrong in front of you. We believe trump is a profound wrong for the country. In georgia the senate will hang in the balance. We are going to make the race about mitch mcconnell. He has his vote. He is going to use his vote in a way to harm the vote of joe biden. It is easier. It is easier ins it fidelity to donald trump. We have never seen what we are seeing in the history of the country. We see all of the qualifications around this. You can see the news anchors on fox saying to republican elected officials if he wins or the republicans say when all of the votes are done being counted. Votes are done being counted. Joe biden is the president elect. He will be the president of the United States. It is what they are doing. He is poisoning american democracy. American democracy requires and relies on faith and belief in the system by the people that are governored under it, right. Faith and belief ins it legitimacy from the people is official to work. You can see that being poisoned. The worst thing out of a lot of terrible things that trump has done over the course of his presidency. This is the worst thing that he can do. Donald trump has been defeated and it is time to get on with the next chapter of american history. Indeed. This is true. If you submitted a script that had trump on the southern end of a 306232 electoral vote, the script would get kicked back it. Does not seem like something that would happen. How are you enjoying the transition thus far . Thank you for phrasing the question that way. I am enjoying it great. Nice to be here. A new blue blazer, just for you. I am enjoying it nicely. Celebrating with the american people. Our democracy. Our record. The electoral officials that did their jobs despite a lot of madness and confusion. Not only did joe biden beat donald trump as badly as donald trump beat hillary clinton, it was worse. In 2016 trump won those states by 77,000 votes. Biden won the same states by 230,000. That is a 300,000 vote swing in favor of joe biden and added georgia and arizona. I feel great and that it is a resounding and a clear result. We are ready to turn the page to the next chapter of american history. I am go to follow up on the same point that you just made. Both of these gentlemen are going to stay with us over the break as we established. He has got the new blue blazer and i half expect hugh hefner to walk through the background in Steve Schmidts living room. D in Steve Schmidts living room. brad apartmentsdotcom makes getting into a new home easier than ever. brokenhearted guy i thought you loved me. 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Do you think things will be worked out . I think when certain democrats blame their losses on the slogan defund the police, they confirm the loss of life and the lack of imagination about what Public Safety should be about. We spent 100 billion a year on police. In most cities in the country, policing is the number one expenditure. Most of us live in a police state. That is not liberal propaganda. We need to find better solutions. Police know it as well. I had a guest on my show how to citizen talking about repolicing. The police recognize that we need more solution to Public Safety problems besides unaccountable people with guns. I would like to see the Democratic Party focus on the actual challenge and not the Republican Partys talking points. I think that in the Democratic Party, and i cant speak for them. I think some of those in tight or losing races, it really felt resentment that the phrase was hung on them. That it was smeared across the entire Democratic Party. I acknowledge that. The first thing that i say is policing is not dictated from the top down. They are running in districts. Policing is a locally determined thing. There is an opportunity to focus what Public Safety should be. We do need to reduce funding for policing and reinvest it into communities. That is a beautiful opportunity for someone to show they ha