IT TO HAVE A POSSIBILITY OF ANY
RECOUNT THERE.
THEN THE CAMPAIGNS CAN’T EVEN
ASK FOR IT.
THIS IS A PRESIDENT WHO IS
COMPLETELY BLOCKED OUT OF
SWITCHING A STATE THAT, YOU
KNOW, THAT WOULD MAKE A
DIFFERENCE IN THE OUTCOME.
HE WOULD HAVE TO FLIP TWO OR
THREE STATES AT THIS POINT AND
IT’S TO THE GOING TO HAPPEN.
TALK TO ANY LEGAL EXPERT ON THE
REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRATIC SIDE,
TALK TO ANY ELECTION OFFICIAL AS
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" DID WENT
ACROSS THE CONSTRUCTIONUNTRY, TH
TO THE -- IT’S OVER.
IT’S OVER UNLESS HE CAN GET
DOC’S DEMORE YAN TIME MACHINE
AND GO BACK A COUPLE MONTHS AND
START THE CAMPAIGN AGAIN.
IT’S OVER FOR HIM.
>> GOOD "BACK TO THE FUTURE"
REFERENCE THERE.
SUCCESSFUL RECOUNTS TEND TO PICK
UP A FEW DOZEN VOTES, MAYBE 100
OR SO AT MOST IN TERMS OF
CHANGING SIDES AND THAT’S NOT
NECESSARILY TO MEAN THEY WOULD
BREAK FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP.
JOE BIDEN MAY PICK UP MORE VOTES
IN A RECOUNT.
THE MARGINS IN THESE STATES ARE
TOO BIG AND THESE LEGAL
CHALLENGES SEEM DES TIND TO
FAIL.
THE WHITE HOUSE HAS HAD NO
MEANINGFUL SUCCESS IN ANY LEGAL
CHALLENGE.
EVEN AS YOU SAY IF ONE STATE WAS
TO TURN ITS RESULT OVER, HE
WOULD STILL BE WELL SHORT.
HE IS EITHER GOING TO BE SEVERAL
STATES HE WOULD HAVE TO DO AND
THAT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
WHAT NEXT?
HOW LONG DO REPUBLICANS LET HIM
PLAY OUT THIS GAME?
I’VE TALKED TO SOME OF HIS
ADVISORS AND SAID, WHAT’S THE
HARM IN GIVING HIM A FEW DAYS TO
COME TO TERM WITHES THEY AND
EXPLORE THE LEGAL OPTIONS.
THAT’S WHAT WE’VE HEARD FROM
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER McCONNELL
AND OTHERS.
THIS IS SLOWING A TRANSITION AT
A TIME OF TRUE CRISIS.
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS
SURGING OUT OF CONTROL ACROSS
THE COUNTRY, THE WORST IT’S EVER
BEEN, STATE BY STATE SETTING
RECORD NUMBER OF CASES EACH DAY
AND WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO IN
THE MEANTIME HAS LARGELY
ABANDONED HIS DAY JOB.
HE HIMSELF HAS NOT ATTENDED A
CORONAVIRUS TASK FORCE BRIEFING
IN MONTHS.
HIS PUBLIC SCHEDULE DOES NOT
SHOW HE’S RECEIVED AN
INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING SINCE
OCTOBER 1st.
THE WHITE HOUSE HASN’T READ OUT
A FOREIGN LEADER CALL IN WEEKS.
HE IS SIMPLY NOT DOING GOVERNING
THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW AT A TIME
OF CRISIS AND WE’RE SEEING JOE
BIDEN TRY TO STEP INTO THAT
BREACH.
HIS CAMPAIGN OFFERED READOUTS OF
SEVERAL FOREIGN LEADER CALLS
YESTERDAY WHO OFFERED
CONGRATULATIONS THE
PRESIDENT-ELECT.
WE KNOW THAT HE HAS ALREADY
ORGANIZED HIS CORONAVIRUS TASK
FORCE BUT THERE’S A LIMIT TO
WHAT HE CAN DO RIGHT NOW.
HE IS NOT THE PRESIDENT.
HE IS NOT RECEIVING THESE
BRIEFINGS.
THERE COMES A MOMENT, AND WE MAY
ALREADY BE THERE, WHERE
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S REFUSAL TO
COOPERATE WITH THE TRANSITION,
WITH THE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
REFUSING TO AUTHORIZES THE WIN
AND ALLOWING THESE BIDEN LANDING
TEAMS TO ENTER THESE GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES, COULD BE PUTTING LIVES
AT RISK AND ENDANGERING THE
ENTIRE NATION.
>> WE WILL WITH TALK THROUGH
MORE OF THE "NEW YORK TIMES"
PIECE A MINUTE AGO WHERE THEY
SPOKE TO ELECTION OFFICIALS IN
ALL 50 STATES AND NOT A SINGLE
ONE OF THEM REPORTED ANY
WIDESPREAD ELECTION FRAUD,
INCLUDING REPUBLICAN HEAVY
STATES.
DONALD TRUMP REFUSING TO
CONCEDE.
MOST REPUBLICANS ON CAPITOL HILL
WON’T PUBLICLY ADMIT JOE BIDEN
IS PRESIDENT-ELECT, BUT
PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN HIMSELF IS
SAYING THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION’S STONEWALLING
WILL NOT STOP HIS TRANSITION.
>> THE ABILITY FOR THE
ADMINISTRATION IN ANY WAY BY
FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE OUR WIN
DOES NOT CHANGE THE DYNAMIC AT
ALL AND WHAT WE’RE ABLE TO DO.
WE CAN GET THROUGH WITHOUT THE
FUNDING.
>> WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THE
AMERICANS THAT ARE ANXIOUS OVER
THE FACT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP
HAS YET TO CONCEDE AND WHAT THAT
MIGHT MEAN FOR THE COUNTRY?
>> WELL, I JUST THINK IT’S AN EMBARRASSMENT, QUITE FRANKLY.
EMBARRASSMENT, QUITE FRANKLY.
THE ONLY THING THAT -- HOW CAN I
SAY THIS TACTFULLY?
I THINK IT WILL NOT HELP THE
PRESIDENT’S LEGACY.
>> TO WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, MIKE
MEMOLI COVERING THE BIDEN FROM
THE BEGINNING.
IT APPEARS OUTWARDLY AND TALKING
PRIVATELY TO SOME PEOPLE THE
BIDEN CAMPAIGN AND
PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN HIMSELF
JUST NOT THAT CONCERNED ABOUT
THIS.
THEY KNOW ABOUT THEIR LEADS IN
THESE STATES, THEY KNOW ABOUT
THE FAILURES OF THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN’S LEGAL CHALLENGES TIME
AND TIME AGAIN AND IT JUST SEEMS
THEY THINK IT’S A MATTER OF
TIME, NOT IF, BUT HOW PRESIDENT
TRUMP WILL LEAVE OFFICE.
>> YEAH.
WILLIE, THE PRESIDENT-ELECT AT
THIS POINT IS TRYING TO SHOW
HE’S GOING TO GOINCHVERN THE WAY
CAMPAIGNED, PROMISING TO TRY TO
LOWER THE TEMPERATURE AND
DEESCALATE IN THIS COUNTRY.
WHEN DEMOCRATS ON CAPITOL HILL
ARE SOUNDING THE ALARM ABOUT THE
FACT THAT HE HAS NOT GOTTEN THE
OPPORTUNITY TO BEGIN THE
TRANSITION EXECUTION HE HAS BEEN
PLANNING FOR MONTHS, BIDEN
HIMSELF REALLY DOWNPLAYING THAT
YESTERDAY SAYING IT WAS NOT
CONSEQUENTIAL THESE DELAYS, EVEN
THE FACT THAT HE’S NOT GETTING
THE PRESIDENTIAL DAILY BRIEF,
BUT I THINK IT’S WORTH STEPPING
BACK AND I’VE SPENT TIME TALKING
TO FORMER WHITE HOUSE CHIEFS OF
STAFF AND OTHER SENIOR OFFICIALS
INVOLVED IN MULTIPLE
TRANSITIONS, SOME OF WHICH
DIDN’T END UP HAPPENING, AND
THEY SAY EVEN IN IDEAL
CIRCUMSTANCES, THE PRESIDENTIAL
TRANSITION, THE HANDOFF OF POWER
FROM ONE ADMINISTRATION TO
ANOTHER, IS A PERILOUS MOMENT
FOR THIS COUNTRY AND NO ONE
KNOWS THAT BETTER THAN GEORGE W.
BUSH, WHO OBVIOUSLY HAD A
SHORTENED TRANSITION BECAUSE OF
THE CONTESTED FLORIDA RECOUNT
AND THEN SAW IN THE FIRST EIGHT
MONTHS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION ONE
OF THE GREATEST TERROR ATTACKS
IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
SO AS HE WENT TOWARD THE END OF
HIS PRESIDENCY HE GAVE DIRECTION
TO HIS CHIEF OF STAFF JOSH
BOLTON, I WANT YOU TO BEGIN
PLANNING THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND
SEAMLESS TRANSITION IN
PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY.
PRESIDENT OBAMA, OBAMA’S TEAM,
TO THIS DAY, CREDIT GEORGE W.
BUSH FOR THAT, FOR JUST HOW
PROFESSIONAL AND NONPARTISAN
THAT TRANSITION WAS.
IN MANY WAYS, IT CREATED BEST
PRACTICES, THE GOLD STANDARD OF
TRANSITION AND THOSE WERE
ACTUALLY WRITTEN INTO LAW AFTER
BUSH’S ADMINISTRATION BY THE