welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm robin curnow. coming up, the covid surge gets worse and the united states prepares to shift doses of advantage seep around the country. that's not what is on president donald trump's mind. he is said to be considering

firing his attorney general. meanwhile, violence in the u.s. capitol is far right trump supporters, the proud boys clash with-counter protesters. >> coronavirus cases and deaths are surging in the u.s. but even as the pandemic worsens, the country is dpeerg up for a massive vaccination effort. the first vaccines are said to be delivered to 145 sites across the country on monday. health care workers and elderly residents of long care facilities will be first in line to get them. the u.s. reported a new record of more than 108,000 covid hospitalizations on saturday and there are more than 60 million

cases in this country right now. we'll, cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has more on the vaccine and what this rollout will look like once the cdc signs off on it. >> just remarkable developments scientifically with this vaccine. it is now authorized and has now been recommended by the center for disease control as well, which means that lots of moving parts are starting to up fold. we know that the shipments are scheduled to begin this weekend. likely going to be arriving in many places by monday morning, and we could see people starting to get vaccinated outside a clip cal trial early this week, perhaps monday or tuesday. the process has been so far once the fda authorized it, the cdc recommended it and we get some better clarity on not only who the vaccine is recommended for but also who may not be recommended. for example, we know that this

is going to be recommended for people 16 and over. there was some back and forth on that among the advisory committee. some felt that maybe the 18 and over but the fda and now cdc think 16 and over. we know that pregnant women, for example, were not part of the original clinical trial. 23 women in the trial game pregnant while in the trial but there's not a lot of data to where it's dangerous or that it's not safe. there's not a lot of data to show its efficacy in pregnant women specifically. that's likely to end up to be conversations between pregnant women and her doctor. if a pregnant woman is in a high risk profession and exposed to covid over and over again, as an example, they may go ahead and ask for the vaccine. we know that people who have had a significant allergic reaction in the past, so significant that they carry an epipen,

correction, they may not be recommended to get the vaccine and people who have conditions who have compromised their immune system. i think a lot of this is going to be conversations between individuals and their health care providers to try and figure out what's going to be the best course of action for them. three million doses, roughly, are gowing to distributed around the country. and it's up to each state to sort of triage these doses. we know that specifically health care workers who take care of covid patients and people in long term care familiarities are going to be at the top of the list but each state may give all their doses to health care workers or all their doses to long term health care facility residents. it may be different one state compared to the state next door. that may feel a little disjoint but the hope is as more and more vaccine is created it's going to help smooth out some of the

demand surges that are likely to occur obviously in these various states. >> thanks to sanjay there. as people hold out for vaccines, the pandemic is surging in countries across the world. in south korea, for example, health officials are trying to cope with the highest number of daily cases since the pandemic began. 1,000 confirmed infections from saturday. in europe, the german chancellor plans to meet with local leaders over a possible nationwide lockdown there. all of this was discussed with dr. jorge rodriguez. he joins me now from los angeles. doctor, hi, lovely to see you. it's -- this is fascinating. it's a huge scientific -- historical scientific moment. we're seeing this vaccination roll out. has anything like this ever been done before in the u.s.? >> nothing at all. even while -- wasn't around but

mean the polio vaccinations, no effort has ever been put together with this degree of you know, sort of urgency, and with this degree of cooperation. just remember that a advantage seep has gone from the beginning of the pandemic to administering the vaccination in approximately nine months. that's unheard of. and this is a worldwide pandemic. so the solution is not just to give it to people in the united states. it's to give it to people world round, so nothing like this has ef been done. it is quite astoupding. >> it is quite astounding, particularly organizationally now. there's the need for ultra cold freezers, tracking equipment, milt backup plans, if kneeled be, tight security and basic distribution. what do you think is the most -- what needs to be done the most effectively, the most efficiently? >> the most efficient thing that

should be done, since the vaccine requires such cold temperatures is that it needs to be gotten and taken to the areas that are necessary under the correct environment. it needs to be distributed in the correct environment. so precision is the most important thing. i think the second-most important thing is telling the public when they can get the vaccine, how they can access it, because there are a lot of questions right now. so i think the communication to the public is going to be absolutely the most important thing. >> yeah. it certainly is. that's not just a u.s. thing as well. many people asking questions and they just need some trust, essentially, in their health care providers. that, of course, is also seen when other people take it. we have all these millions of people potentially being vaccinated in the coming months. how important is it for people who have already had covid to also get vaccinated? where does that fit in? >> well, the people who already

had covid need to be stratified as if they never had it. we don't know if they can harbor the virus later on, if they can get it a second time. therefore, people that are -- that have be already infected with covid should not have a accepts of security that they're never going to get it again. they need to be vaccinated. probably the most long lasting immunity will be obtained through vaccination. >> that's interesting. also the interesting thing, doctors like you still don't know if this vaccine stops the infection or just stops you from getting sick. this is about mask wearing way into next year, isn't it? >> absolutely. i think one of the disservices we've done to the public is we have almost propagated the myth that when things are better we can go out and be normal. let's realize that normalcy is going to take a while. we don't have long-term data on

this vaccine. so until we know, six months out, a year out, that boichk it is safe to come out of our homes, we are going to have to still just take precautions. we don't know if we can spread it. until we know differently, we still have to take precautions to protect those who not be vaccinated. and actually, ourselves, because we don't know how long it will be effective in those who have gotten it. >> what do you think about the need to test people at home? does regulation need to change? do you see did biden administration being pressured to change regulation so we can self-test at home? >> i don't know if they're going to be pressured. but i think being self-tested at home is one more bullet in our armor to fight this. the sort of bottleneck and the

cog in the works, if you will, is the ability of people at home to be able to test themselves creditly. the test has not only to be effective, it has to be easy to be performed at home. i think it's going to be a huge help in what we do. even if people just test themselves, you know, often, it is better than not being tested at all. >> dr. rodriguez, always good to speak you. thank you for joining us. coming up on cnn, more on that logistical nightmare of getting that vaccine to hundreds of millions of people. we look at the plan to ship it throughout the u.s. plus the u.s. attorney general is on the bad end of trump.

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washington's mayor says at least 23 have been arrested during a day and night of post election protests. police say at least four people were stand or taken to the hospital in critical condition. it's stop the steal protesters

and-counter protesters gathered in the capital. demonstrations were mostly peaceful during the day but scuffles broke out support addcally. the electoral college will meet on monday. president trump is hashing out at the supreme court and his own attorney general. here's more in washington. boris. >> reporter: president trump spent saturday mostly focused on the 2020 election and myth making, repeating false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him and now the president is focussing his ire on those in his administration and elsewhere that are refusing to go along with this fantasy. on saturday, president trump tweeting that the supreme court acted displacefully in dismissing that lawsuit from the state of texas trying to over turn lawsuits in pennsylvania

and other states. he focused on his attorney general william barr. cnn reported that president trump was furious with barr after the attorney general revealed in the associated press that he did not believe that there was any widespread election fraud, there was no evidence of widespread election fraud. cnn has learned that president trump at that point contemplated firing the toerm but was talked out of it by aids, ultimately suggesting that he was so close to a new administration that it wouldn't be worth it. now, the president is again revisiting the idea after news that attorney general william barr worked to keep news that the department of justice was investigating president-elect joe biden's son hunter under wraps. barr, following precedent and policy to not reveal any sort of information about a candidate or their family members being under investigation around election time. the president tweeting this,

quote, why didn't bill bar reveal the truth to the public before the election about hunter biden? joe was lying on the deept stage that nothing was wrong or going on. press confirmed. big disadvantage for republicans at the polls. that truth there that the president is alluding to, a bit nebulous at best. nevertheless, this is history recenting itself. president trump frequently berated his former attorney general, jeff session, on twitter because session did not do his bidding and ultimately recused himself from the russia investigation. that went on for the better part of a year before president trump ultimately fired sessions, replacing him with barr. now we're in a similar situation. sources close to the two men say that the communication between them is virtually nonexist ends, that there has been a breakdown between the two of them. they likened it to a cold war

between the two men. he's mused about firing barr. it's unclear whether he will, so close to a new administration on january 20th. >> joining me is jessica levinson, professor of law at loyola. jessica, lovely to see you. the president tweeted we have just begun the fight. we're seeing americans fighting on the streets, d.c. najs we showed a little before. is the legal fight now totally over? >> almost, almost, almost. i wish i could say totally over. now, any legitimate legal fight is way, way over, and frankly never even began, so people have asked me when it comes to the post election litigation, are you going to talk about this in your election law class? the answer is no. i would talk about this in an ethical lawyering class or

professional responsibility class on what not to do. there haven't been any real legal questions. is it over, over, over? i mean, any potential small path to victory is over. but will the suits potentially continue in order to help fund raise? maybe. >> that's a good point. how has the legal fight to overturn the election created political opportunities for the president and his supporters? in many ways someone suggested that the legal losses have sent a clear post election message. >> i think so. if you look at how much president trump has been able to fund raise as a result of continuing to fight in the courts, i think at this point, it's probably upwards of $200 million. so continuing the legal fights has really allowed him to continue his political fights and his political fund raising. this money particularly for a

leadership pac could really allowed him to continue to hold sway over the republican party, not just by using the media, but also by using this frankly huge slush fund, so i think that's what we're talking about here. there really is no realistic path. even in 2020, even in our crazy topsy-turvy world, there is no legal path to overturning a democratically elected president-elect, in this case, joe biden. >> so are what you calling a slush fund and the majority of house republicans support this texas case. how and to what extent mr. president trump p trump has co opted the republican party and how long will that endure after the 20th of january. i mean, how much does the political landscape change in the years ahead? >> i wish i knew the answer to that. i suspect that anybody who says they know for sure, i'm a little

suspicious of that. but what we do know is that the republican party really has become the party of trump. we saw this in the republican convention where the platform was one thing. re-elect president trump. and up think for some republicans, some voters, not elected officials, it's become kind of unrecognizable, because none of these things have anything to do with your view of tax policy or the environment or criminal justice or voting rights. it's all really just about trying to elect president trump. now, how much noise is he going to make going forward? in part, it's how much the elected republicans allow him to make. i mean, the fact that a majority of them signed on to a lawsuit that was so absurd that it is -- you should have a real conversation about whether the lawyers should be sanctioned. doesn't say a lot about the institutional strength of the republican party.

that's not good for our country. it's better for our country when we have two legitimate parties, not one party with certain views and then another party that supports at least publicly undermining our democracy. >> how does potentially firing the attorney general weeks before the handover impact things? is this likely? and what -- more importantly, if it happens, what does that change, if anything? what opportunity does it give the president in the last few weeks? >> well, you know, what does it change? i mean, for bill barr, i don't think -- frankly this has been the curious case of bill barr for so long, because he did serve as the attorney general before. many people, including myself, incheckly thought that he would be the adult in the room, and you know, at this point he did kind of two things that showed respect for the rule of law and reality. and as a result we're talking

about him being fired. now, what could happen is bill bar's no longer there. it's not like he served as a guardrail or a protector of democracy and our department of justice. we don't know who would be installed. i think we're at about 38 days before the inauguration, so certainly president trump is still in power. there's still a lot of levers that he can pull. and he can still try and, for instance, undermine protection for career mex of the federal government, but i would say we don't know the answer to that yet. we don't know if bill barr is going to be ostracized or if he'll be shown door. >> always important to get your perspective. thank so much. have a lovely weekend. >> thank you. >> heating up in georgia ahead of the two elections in january. many republicans in the state are repeating president trump's false claim of election fraud as

well. but they are still urging people to vote next month. here's more from atlanta. >> reporter: the immediate political impact is on the two senate runoff seats here in georgia. now, democrats and republicans are criss-crossing the state, talking about voter enthusiasm, trying to get people to focus on the early vote which starts on monday. as far as those bus tours, what we were listening for and what with we are continuing to listen for is whether the supreme court's decision to not hear the case is going to be immediately talked about on the campaign trail. how redid see the club for growth save america bus tour, one of the speakers, representative of louis gohmert who comes from texas drelt address it. i want up to see if you can follow his twists and turns as

he attempts to spin this. >> they may wimp out. we have got to show the supreme court, whimps or not, there are wheel in this country that still stand up for right. >> reporter: republican notable sarah palin, the former vice presidential candidate joined gohmert on the trail and what she was saying along with other speakers is you still got to vote. don't with skurmd. don't be disillusioned but following up with that by basically disparaging the entire democratic system. cnn, atlanta. >> coming up here on cnn, how to get a coronavirus vaccine to hundreds of millions of americans. we look at the massive logistics that could start in just a few hours time. plus, reaching rule americans with the vaccine. we look at how some of the challenges will impact rural americans. that is after the break. ypical vacuum has bristles that can leave cleaning gaps and wrap hair.

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shipment from factory to final destination where it could altar the course of the pandemic in the u.s. and around the world. not a moment too soon. with cases and deaths surging. here's more on how the vaccine will get from cold storage into the arms of millions of americans. >> reporter: as a race to distribute the pfizer vaccine in the united states is set to begin, there are different parts of the logistics, the process of actually getting that vaccine to hospitals and nursing homes and government agencies that have taken months to plan. different carriers like fedex andups are going to take that vaccine and ship it all of the country to try and get it to people who need it. quickly. now, there are three different aspects to this. of course, technical, much has been made about the fact that this vaccine must be kept in extremely cold companies, we're

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hi, david, in johannesburg. what do we know? >> this is a group according to witnesses we spoke to in that part of the state in northwest nigeria that at around 9:00 p.m. in the evening on friday as these young students were preparing for exams, a group of gunmen on motorbikes, as you suggest, came into that large school of maybe about 700 people. an 18-year-old, musa, that we spoke to said he was terrified by the increasing hi loud sounds of gunfire. he and a few of his classmates jumped out of the windows, rap

into a nearby forest. they were bare foot. they have had to sleep the night there and return to the school. what is unclear at this stage, is just how many people were taken by those gunmen. this is not an area known for, i know, radical extremists. this is -- through there is a lot of insecurity and criminal itself in this region and a history of kidnapping. now, the president says that they're going to do everything to find out what happens. he happened to, in fact, be in the state, his home state, mohammed, a couple hundred kilometers away. it's deeply embarrassing, this incident. yet how serious it is in terms of how many children were taken and how many have been free at this point. >> keep us posted on any new information you get on that. broadly, nigerians concerned about disturbing vice president incidents over the last few

weeks and months with relation to lawlessness. what can the president do about it? >> he came into power, as you know, as former general, someone who would come in and secure the country in his words, his primary objective, when he came into power initially was the northeast of nigeria where they're still fighting a long-running insurgency from boeko hare ra oe ha o boeko har. over a hundred farmers murdered by boko haram. you also have in the northwest like this current incident a feeling of lawlessness by citizens. and the protests against the czar's security group and the fallout from that. so the president will be under a great deal of pressure right now

to do something about keeping nigerians safe. there is a large amount of discontent about different issues of security with different actors, but in a way with the same result. people just feel unsafe. >> but this time again, real concerns of children were targeted. have you spoken to many families in the area and when will we know how many children are still missing? >> well, as i was speaking to our colleague in nigeria just a few moments ago, the iron any of this is that it can take several days to figure out how many children were at the school, how many potentially were taken. there is some good news. it seems like a lot of kids were able to escape. it is up clear whether the primary objective of these gunmen were to take people to try and get ransom or to rob the children. one person said they ransacked

their dorm rooms. there are some indications that the attackers were when the up to associated with the school before this. it might have been an issue of just a target of opportunity. it could take several days to figure out how many of these kids were taken if there have been released but the bottom line remains is that these incidents continue to happen in several parts. >> david mckenzie, thanks so much for that update there, thank you. >> so coming up, legendary country singer charley pride passed away. looking back at his decades-long career. home instead has helped seniors stay home. now, staying home isn't just staying in the place they love. it's staying safe. it's essential. if your loved one needs in-home care, we're here to help. home instead. to us, it's personal.

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what happens in vegas didn't stay in vegas for this man. he was taken into police custody on saturday after climbing onto the wing of an alaska airlines plane at las vegas airport and then falling to the tarmac which you can see in this video shot by a passenger who was waiting to board that jet. the airport tells cnn the man was taken to a medical facility. no word yet, though, on why he was actually scaling the plane in the first place. now some sad news from the world of country music. the legendary singer charley pride has passed away at the age

of 86 as a result of complications from covid. pride was the first black member of country music hall of fame. stephanie elam has more on his trailblazing career. >> reporter: charley pride was country music's first black superstar. the son of mississippi sharecroppers, he fell in love with country music after listening to grand ole opry radio shows in his youth. >> i've always loved entertainment. i've always loved to listen to not only just singing but the radio shows. >> reporter: yet he first found success in a different field. >> that was where i wanted to make my mark. baseball, i saw jackie robinson and i was down there picking that cotton in mississippi, and i said hey, here's my way out. >> reporter: pride entered the negro leagues at the age of 16. he sang at local music clubs in his failed time and after a

failed try out with the new york mets made music his focus. legendary country guitarest and record executive chet atkins took a chance on him and launched his career. pride's first sing ltz were released without any mention of his race or even a picture of him. but in due course country music fans discovered who he was and liked what they saw. his 1967 break through single "just between you and me" was a top ten country hit and earned him his first grammy nomination. in the decades that followed pride would score more than 50 top ten country hits and sell tens of millions of records. his 1971 grammy winning number one cross over hit "kiss an angel good morning" was his most successful song selling more than a million copies.

>> i'm through talking. i guess i'm just going to thank everybody again. >> reporter: in his later years pride picked up lifetime cma and grammy achievement awards and was inducted into the grand ole opry and the country music hall of fame. he also continued performing, introducing new generations to the honky-tonk music of his youth. charley pride, a pioneering performer who broke barriers singing the music he loved so well.

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hi, welcome to all of our viewers joining us from around the world. you're watching cnn. thanks for joining me. i'm robyn curnow. in the hours ahead we expect to see the first covid vaccinations delivered around the u.s., but that's just the beginning. we'll look at the challenge of getting it out to millions of americans. but president trump still seems to have his attention focused on the election he lost, and why his own attorney general is it latest focus of his wrath. and some of the president's forces are even angrier. we'll have the details of the rally that dissolved into chaos. >> announcer: live from cnn center this is "cnn newsroom" with robyn curnow. here in the u.s. the first doses of the first covid