Trump remains out of public sight, refusing to concede; Biden talks COVID stimulus with Pelosi, Schumer in first post-election call with Dem leaders; Dr. Gupta: COVID surge “humanitarian disaster”; 14-day quarantine before Thanksgiving should start today;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Some Republicans begin to recognize Biden as President-elect; Record 144,000 new cases in one day in U.S.; Sources: Trump children split on post-election approach; Biden moves forward with transition without help from Trump admin; President-elect Biden names Ron Klain as his WH Chief of Staff; Pope Francis congratulates Biden in phone call; President-elect Biden blocked from getting intel briefings; Bernie Sanders says he would accept Labor Secretary if Biden asks; Biden transition aide clarifies: 4-6 week lockdowns is “not in line” with Biden’s view; McCarthy: Biden doesn’t need access to intel right now; Dr Fauci doubts COVID will ever be eradicated even with vaccine; Record 65K Americans hospitalized with COVID; Karl Rove: Trump lawsuits won’t change election outcome; Some Trump advisers say no chance legal challenges will succeed; Airlines adding more flights ahead of holiday rush; NJ Health Dept: At least five COVID-19 outbreaks linked to Halloween parties; 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	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with the 2020 lead
0:05.0	President-elect Joe Biden today heading to his Beach House in Rehoboth
0:09.2	Delaware with his family no public events scheduled while outgoing President Trump is
0:14.9	tweeting furiously not just falsehoods about the election but literally
0:18.6	deranged and debunked conspiracy theories. Trump still refusing to acknowledge the plain fact that
0:24.7	he has been defeated by President-elect Joe Biden and has for the most part Mr.
0:29.8	Trump withdrawn from public view. The coronavirus pandemic meanwhile is getting worse,
0:35.0	but President Trump is still refusing to develop any new plan to combat this crisis
0:40.0	with several more of his own advisors contracting coronavirus
0:43.4	after attending campaign events around election day.
0:46.2	So in essence President Trump appears to be desperately,
0:51.0	even pathetically fighting to keep a job that he has no apparent interest in
0:56.2	responsibly performing. And while most Republican lawmakers are completely
1:00.8	enabling this behavior, a small number are now doing the bare minimum by acknowledging the simple fact that
1:07.2	President-elect Joe Biden won. Let's reiterate this for viewers out there who might be worried because of this unprecedented,
1:15.8	unhinged behavior by the outgoing president.
1:18.8	Legal experts, Democrats and Republicans say there is no credible path for Donald Trump to challenge
1:24.4	the election results in all or even really any of the states that he needs to
1:30.2	reverse their results so he can win the election that he clearly, legally, and legitimately
1:37.2	has lost.
1:38.7	Now officials in the White House know this and acknowledge it privately.
1:41.9	Republicans in Congress know this and acknowledge it privately. Republicans in Congress know this and acknowledge it privately.
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