Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Thursday, December 3rd. In today's news, President Trump is

livid with Bill Barr and just might fire him.

President-elect Biden's immigration policies could leave him in a quandary amid a looming surge of migrants.

And a third grade teacher in Minnesota donates a kidney to her

school's custodian. But first, the big idea. Our country hit a pair of alarming coronavirus benchmarks on Wednesday,

surpassing 200,000 new infections and topping 100,000 patients hospitalized for the first time.

Yesterday alone, 2, 798 of our fellow Americans died from the coronavirus.

2, 798. On September 11th, 2001, 2,606 people died in the World Trade Center when the Twin

Towers went down.

CDC Director Bob Redfield said last night that the next three months could be, quote,

the most difficult time in the public health history of the nation.

He said the coronavirus death toll in America could reach 450,000 by February.

But President Trump didn't talk about the coronavirus yesterday.

Instead, he escalated his baseless efforts to subvert democracy

with a 46-minute video rant.

Standing behind the presidential lectern in the diplomatic reception room

and flanked by the flags of his office and of the country whose constitution he

swore an oath to uphold,

Trump tried to leverage the power of the presidency

to overturn the results of an election he lost.

Our White House Bureau Chief Phil Rocker writes

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