The last few days have found President Trump engaged in a linguistic battle against the truth.

It's as if his mind knows the jig is up, but the rest of him just can't recognize it. Not yet.

Trump's still firmly claiming he's won a second term, still deploying Rudy Giuliani to go on TV, and defend all those lawsuits he's filed against election administrators all over the country.

But then, the president will have these little moments where reality seems to creep in, almost to the subliminal level.

It started on Friday with a coronavirus press conference where Trump almost nearly

acknowledged the incoming administration.

Ideally, we won't go to a lockdown. I will not go. This administration will not be going

to a lockdown. Hopefully the, whatever happens in the future,

who knows which administration will be, I guess time will tell. But I can tell you, this administration

will not go to a lockdown. There won't be necessary. Then, on Sunday, Trump tweeted that Joe Biden

won the election, which seemed like breaking news, until he went on to claim the

election was rigged. Right now, I feel like we're in this like in between, I can't tell.

Are we in a crisis? Are we not? I don't know yet. We'll see. This is Rosa Brooks, Professor

at Georgetown Law. I wanted to talk to her about all this,

because she spent the last few months thinking about all the ways the president could play out

his final weeks in office. And I thought she'd know better than anyone how this back and forth

could resolve itself. How does one become an expert in presidential transitions?

I don't know, because I'm not one.

But you're the one we're all calling.

I know.

I don't know why you're all calling me.

To be fair, Rosa did found something called the Transition Integrity Project.

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