It's an embarrasment

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Evan Osnos, staff writer for The New Yorker, and Yahoo News Health Contributor and former Obama Administration official Dr. Kavita Patel join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Osnos takes a deep dive into his new book Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now. Then, Patel joins to give us insight on the current coronavirus surge, how much worse it's going to get, and what potential the vaccine announcement from Pfizer holds.

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0:00.0	Do you say to the Americans that are anxious over the fact that President Trump has yet to
0:06.1	concede and what that might mean for the country?
0:08.8	Well, I just think it's an embarrassment, quite frankly.
0:15.4	The only thing that, how can I say this tactfully?
0:21.3	I think it will not help the President's legacy.
0:29.2	But I think at the end of the day, you know, it's all going to come to fruition on January
0:34.6	20th.
0:36.0	And between now and then, I hope an expectation is that the American people do not do understand
0:42.5	that there has been a transition, even among Republicans who are people who voted for
0:49.1	the President.
0:50.1	I understand the sense of loss.
0:52.1	I get that.
0:53.8	But I think the majority of the people who voted for the President, a lot voted for him,
0:59.4	a significant, a smaller number, but a lot voted for him.
1:02.7	I think they understand that we have to come together.
1:06.4	That was President-elect Joe Biden Tuesday, reacting to President Trump's continued refusal
1:11.7	to acknowledge what has been clear since last weekend.
1:15.1	He lost the election and will no longer be in office come next January 20th.
1:19.6	Yet, it's not just Trump who stands to be embarrassed.
1:23.3	His loyalists in Congress and his appointees and government continue to sustain the idea
1:28.9	that the election is not over.
1:30.9	The Chief of the General Services Administration, Emily Murphy, is even refusing to release
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