After meeting with union and business leaders, President-elect Joe Biden says they all agreed "the sooner we have access to the administration's [vaccine] distribution plan, the sooner this transition would smoothly move forward."
Trump and his team continue to deny he lost.
President-elect Biden says "more people may die" as a result of the Trump administration's refusal to initiate a transfer of power. He notes that getting 300 million vaccinated is a "huge undertaking" and it is necessary to start planning before January 20th.
Asked if he would take the COVID vaccine if it is approved, Biden responds, "I wouldn't hesitate to take the vaccine" and he would "want to set an example." Biden further notes, "The only reason people question the vaccine now is because of Donald Trump."
Biden responds to Trump advisor Scott Atlas, who called on people to "resist" Michigan Gov. Whitmer's call COVID restrictions: "What the hell's the matter with these guys? What is the matter with them?"
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President-elect Biden on Trump's refusal to acknowledge his win: "We are already beginning the transition. We're well underway. ... The fact that they're not willing to acknowledge we won, at this point, is not of much consequence in our planning and what we're able to do."
President-elect Biden on what he's telling world leaders that he has spoken to: "I'm letting them know that America is back. We're gonna be back in the game, it's not America alone."
President-elect Biden on Trump's false claims about the election: "So far, there is no evidence to any of the assertions made by the president or Secretary of State Pompeo."
Trump says of the vaccine, which does not yet exist and hasn't been subjected to an approval process: "We'll have manufactured at least 100 million vaccine doses before the end of the year"
There have been multiple reports of pressure for a vaccine to coincide with the election.
After botching the response to Hurricane Maria and repeatedly neglecting and insulting the Americans there, Trump now claims, "I'm the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico."
Praising his own virus response as deaths near 200,000, Trump says, "if you take the blue states out, we're at a level I don't think anybody in the world would be at."
On the same day Joe Biden and others raise concerns about Trump using political pressure for a vaccine, Trump says the CDC head was "confused" in his congressional testimony about when a vaccine would be available and said he called him to set him straight.
Trump says it is "amazing" that apparently it is not legal for the government to collect a bounty by forcing the sale of TikTok to an American company.
Trump announces he's going to be a regular contributor to Fox & Friends, appearing once a week. The announcement surprised the hosts, who probably thought he has better things to do.
Trump used to contribute to Fox before he ran for office, pushing birther conspiracies.
Trump says reporters give Joe Biden the answers to questions and put them on a teleprompter for him. This is completely made up and false.
Trump says America is "rounding the turn" on the virus and that things are improving.
There were 447 deaths reported yesterday, and a total of 194,397 deaths and rising.
In a hearing discussing AG William Barr's attempts to politically interfere in cases on behalf of Trump, GOP Rep @Jim_Jordan recites a series of conspiracies about the Obama administration then proclaims, "Bill Barr is doing the Lord's work."
Trump first describes reports that he went down to the White House bunker as a "false report," then he admits that he did go but "it was much more for an inspection," rather than out of fear of protesters. "I've gone down two or three times all for inspection."
Trump goes on to say he went down to the bunker "for a very short period of time" as "an inspecting factor."
Trump dismisses clergy who criticized his Bible photo-op: "Most religious leaders loved it ... It's only the other side that didn't like it, you know the opposing -- the opposition party as the expression goes."