YOU INTERVIEWED FAUCI YESTERDAY.

>> I DID.

>> Stephen: WHAT DID HE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE DELAYED

TRANSITION?

IS THAT GOING TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO DO THE

DISTRIBUTION?

ARE WE ALL LESS SAFE BECAUSE OF THAT?

>>.

>> I MEAN YEAH, OF COURSE.

HE SAID AS A PUBLIC HEALTH'S PERSPECTIVE OF COURSE IT WOULD

BE BETTER TO BE WORKING WITH THE BIDEN-HARRIS TEAM TO BE ABLE TO

PREPARE FOR THE TRANSITION AND PRESIDENT-ELECT BIEDEN SAID AS

MUCH TODAY.

I MEAN, THEY ARE GOING TO BE TAKING OVER.

THEY NEED TO BE READY TO GO.

AND YOU KNOW, THEY SAY THEY NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE PLANS ARE.

THE WHITE HOUSE, SOME PRESS SECRETARY AT THE WHITE HOUSE

SAID HERE'S THE PLAN AND HE JUST, THERE WAS SOME LINK TO THE

PUBLIC PLAN AS IF THAT IS ALL THAT IS NEEDED.

YEAH, I MEAN.

IT'S JUST-- IT IS HARD TO COME UP WITH A SENSE OF DISMAY THAT I

FEEL COVERING THIS JUST BECAUSE IT'S JUST THE TRANSFER OF POWER.

WE GO THROUGH THIS EVERY FOUR TO EIGHT YEARS.

AND THIS KABOOKI, THIS PRETENSE THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD BE

CODDLING DONALD TRUMP'S FEELINGS LIKE HE IS A FIVE YEAR OLD WHOSE

PET TURTLE JUST DIED.

LIKE WE SHOULD ALL JUST WORRY ABOUT HIM AND NOT LIKE HAVE

PEOPLE DOING WHAT IN THE MILL TARYL THEY CALL RIGHT SEAT LEFT

SEAT WHICH IS PREPARING TO TAKE OVER.

I JUST DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY EXCEPT, YOU KNOW, THIS WILL

BE OVER BY JANUARY 209, PRESUMABLY.

>> Stephen: IN 2018 YOU TOLL ME YOU JUST WANT FACTS TO BE

RESPECTED AGAIN IN THIS COUNTRY.

DO YOU SEE THAT HAPPENING, JAKE TAPPER.

>> NO, IT'S EVEN WORSE TODAY THAN IT WAS IN 2018.

THAT IS ONE OF THE LESSONS OF THIS ENTIRE ERA IS NO MATTER HOW

BAD ST ON IF I GIVEN DAY, TOMORROW WILL BE WORSE.

>> Stephen: BUT DO YOU THINK THAT MAYBE LIKE THAT COMES FROM

THE TOP AND THAT SOMEBODY AT THE TOP NOW IS GOING LIKE YEAH, I

ACCEPT THOSE FACTS.

MIGHT ACTUALLY TRICKLE DOWN.

>> THEY RECEIPTICALLY THAT IS THE HOPE FOR THOSE OF US WHO

WILL IN THE FACT-LOVING BUSINESS.

BUT YES, I MEAN LOOK, THE PRESIDENT IS LYING ABOUT TWO

THINGS RIGHT NOW.

ONE IS HOW BAD THE PANDEMIC IS.

AND IT IS HORRIBLE.

AND IT IS GETTING WORSE.

AND TWO IS THE ELECTION RESULTS.

SO THESE ARE SERIOUS THINGS OF MAJOR CONSEQUENCE.

AND TENSE OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS BELIEVE HIS LIE.

AND THAT IS JUST DISTRESSING.

>> Stephen: LET'S MOVE ON TO SOMETHING MORE HAPPY, OKAY.

>> YEAH.

>> Stephen: HAPPIER, I THINK THEY CALL THAT.

YOUR BOOK FROM-- YOUR NOVEL, IT WAS THE 2018 HELL FIRE CLUB, IS

BEING A DAMENTED INTO A TV, IS IT A SERIES, IS IT.

>> A TV SERIES, YEAH.

>> Stephen: IT IS ALL ABOUT LIKE INTRIGUE IN WASHINGTON D.C.

IN THE 1950S, RIGHT.

>> 1950S, JOE McCARTHY.

>> Stephen: SURE.

>> ANY CHANCE FOR A TAPPER CAMIO?

BECAUSE ONE OF THE CHARACTERS HAS AN ACUTE SENSE OF SMELL

WHICH WE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE.

>> THAT'S TRUE.

BUT THAT CHARACTER IS THE HERO AND I AM NOT YOUNG, HANDSOME OR

TALENTED ENOUGH TO BE THAT PERSON.

I MIGHT, I MIGHT DO A CAMIO BUT I WILL TELL YOU SOMETHING, YOU,

YOU ACTUALLY SHOULD BE IN IT.

BECAUSE I KNOW YOU ACTUALLY HAVE ACTING CHOPS.

AND THERE ARE SOME ROLES IN IT THAT, I MEAN WHAT ABOUT SENATOR

ESTES KEYFAFFER FROM TENNESSEE.

>> Stephen: ARE YOU KIDDING, HE WAS A VICE PRESIDENTIAL

CANDIDATE, AT ONE POINT.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

>> Stephen: WITH ICE, IN THE WITH.

>> >> Stephen: ADELAIDE

STEVENSON.

>> YOU WOULD BE GOOD AT THAT.

YOU WOULD BE GOOD IN THAT ROLE.

>> Stephen: PEOPLE HAVE OFTEN CALLED ME KEYFAWFERRESQUE.

JAKE, WE HAVE TO GO, THANKS STO MUCH FOR STOPPING BY.

I UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO TELL

PEOPLE.

>> EVERY YEAR I HAVE AN AUCTION TO RAISE MONEY FOR WOUNDED

VETERANS TO BUILD HOMES FORCE THEM.

YOU ALWAYS, YOU ALWAYS KICK IN WITH A VISIT TO THE SET AND A

MEET AND GREET, IT VERY GENEROUS.

THIS YEAR OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC ARE YOU NOT DOING

THAT.

YOU DONATED A ZANEIOUS SUIT, PEOPLE CAN GO TO eBAY.COM/HFOT

HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS AND ALL OF YOUR STANDS, ALL OF THE COLBERT

STANDS CAN BID ON YOUR SUIT AND GET THAT MONEY GOING FOR THE

WOUNDED VETERAN.

>> Stephen: I SUIT I ACTUALLY WORE ON THE SHOW AND JUST MOILD

MILDLY SOILED.

WELL.

>> WELL, I HOPE NOT TOO MUCH BECAUSE I'M ONE MUCH THE

BIDDERS.

>> Stephen: NO, IT IS DRY CLEANED, OBVIOUSLY, DRY CLEANED,

JAKE, ALL BEEN STERILIZED.

>> WITH THE BLOOD OF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE GUEST.

>> Stephen: THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER AIRS WEEKDAYS ON CNN.

HIS NAME IS JAKE TAPPER, EVERYBODY.

WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH A PERFORMANCE BY BENEE.

THANK YOU, JAKE.

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