All 50 states and D.C. certify presidential election results

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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All 50 states and Washington, D.C. have certified their presidential election results despite Pres. Trump asking the Supreme Court to block millions of votes from four battleground states that voted for President-elect Biden. The Texas Attorney General filed the lawsuit looking to invalidate millions of votes cast in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Pres. Trump has asked Ted Cruz to argue Texas election lawsuit if it reaches Supreme Court. John Dean is a former Nixon White House Counsel and is also a CNN Contributor. He tells Anderson Cooper he doesn’t believe the lawsuit has any merit. Plus, the FDA is scheduled to meet Thursday to authorize Pfizer’s vaccine but there are many questions surrounding the plan to get the shots from the manufacturers into hospitals, assisted living facilities and pharmacies. Kathleen Sebelius is the former Department of Health and Human Services Secretary. She joins AC360 to discuss the latest with the vaccine and says “we have to balance some unknowns still with the vaccines with the notion that this will absolutely save lives.” Airdate: December 9, 2020 Guests: John Dean Kathleen Sebelius To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And good evening with the final scientific and regulatory hurdle for COVID vaccine just
0:04.7	hours away and the pandemic burning across the country, you would think a president, any
0:09.4	president, first priority right now would be preparing for the rollout.
0:13.7	You might also think that a president would be saying and doing all that he or she could
0:18.0	to help those at home in on the medical front lines, stay safe and strong just a little
0:22.8	longer until this vaccine and others become widely available.
0:26.3	You might think that that is what a president would do.
0:29.9	By now, you probably know that it's not something this president would consider doing and
0:35.3	is certainly not doing.
0:36.8	The president showed again today that he only cares about one thing and that one thing
0:40.3	has nothing to do with what he once called his solemn obligation.
0:45.8	My first duty as president is to protect the American people and today I'm taking action
0:51.8	to fulfill that sacred obligation.
0:56.5	Teleprompter reading.
0:58.2	People to that obligation is protecting people's right to choose who governs them, even if
1:02.5	they choose someone other than him, which they have.
1:04.9	As of tonight, all 50 states in the District of Columbia have now certified their election
1:08.4	results.
1:09.8	Challenges by the president and his allies have been shut down and in some cases nearly
1:13.6	laughed out of court after court after court actually.
1:17.3	We've seen witness after witness and makeshift hearings may claims that are outlandish.
1:21.3	In some cases, barely coherent, such as here in Michigan.
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