Good evening today.

The president did what all presidents before him have done.

He followed tradition and later read that Arlington cemetery to honor all those who fought

and died for this country.

The Arlington visit was the president's first public appearance since losing the election.

He spent most of his time since watching cable news coverage and rage tweeting about that

election, leveling charges of fraud without having any evidence that so far at least has

held up in any court.

There's also new reporting tonight that says the president has no intention of changing

course.

There's no sign that he has actually been attending to the business of being president.

Nor is he permitted the government, the people's government, not his government, to allow

President-elect Biden and his transition team to begin their work.

And behind the scenes as well, frightened to say publicly what they really think were

public and senators and others around the president have been throwing around phrases

familiar to any parent of a toddler asking us all to just give the president who, after

all, is a grown man a little space to come to grips with his defeat.

One senior Republican official telling the Washington Post quote, what is the downside for

humoring him for this little bit of time?

That's an actual quote as if George H. W. Bush just needed to cry it all out after his

electoral defeat.

He didn't.

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