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Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, november 24th. Along with joe, willie and me, we have white house report for the Associated Press, jonathan lemire. Nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt back with us. And joe, its book day for you. Happy book day. Well get to that in a moment but first, a lot happened yesterday to clear the way for the Trump Administration to actually recognize joe biden as the president elect. Lets go through how things played out. It started with the state of michigans top election board voting yesterday to certify p...

Here, its over. The president has failed in his attempt to overturn an election result. Joe biden will as planned take over as the 46th president at noon, january 20th in keeping with the results of the election. Another way of putting it is trumps defeat became official when the woman who runs the General Services administration faced with a boss who will not concede just tonight grudgingly agreed to officially begin the transition to the biden administration. In a letter to biden that avoids calling him president elect, emily murphy, signed off on his transition and noted she was under no po...

Her decision came just hours after Election Officials in michigan certified joe bidens victory. Trump posted his reaction to the news about the transition with a message that did not sound like a concession. Quote, i want to thank emily murphy at gsa for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our country. Our case strongly continues, and we will keep up the good fight, and i believe we will prevail. Nevertheless, in the best interest of our country i am recommending that emily and her team do what needs to be done and have told my team to do the same. Tonight the New York Times reports it thi...

Risk and cost of on going or further delays from trump who has now folded and biden doing his first interview as president elect now talking with Nbcs Lester Holt about this very breakthrough. Immediately, we got out reach from the National Security shop, just across the board. So i think were going to not be so far behind the curve, as we thought we might be in the past, and theres a lot of immediate discussion and i must say the out reach has been sincere. Its not been begrudging so far and i dont expect it to be. So yes, its already begun. News there in that new interview. Biden pressing fo...

To tackle the climate crisis. Also breaking, officials in michigan have just voted to formally certify their Election Results dealing a very serious blow to President Trumps desperate, desperate efforts to try to pressure states into overturning his defeat. Were following the escalating coronavirus pandemic as well which has now killed more than 257,000 people here in the United States. The surge in new cases has pushed the total number of confirmed u. S. Infections past 12. 3 million with about one quarter of those coming in just the last month alone. Lets begin our coverage this hour with ou...