hello, i'm buy on na golodryga in for brianna keilar. in just hours president-elect joe biden and jill biden will be vaccinated against coronavirus and it's happening on the dye that the u.s. begins getting shots of the newly authorized moderna vaccine. as we become the first in the world to offer two vaccines, we could be the last western nation to respond to a new variant of coronavirus. so far the u.s. has not joined

more than 30 countries that are banning travel from the united kingdom. the country just revealing the variant is much more infectious but likely not any deadlier. the white house coronavirus task force is meeting today and will discuss the issue. one of its members, admiral brett girorar, says we are not seeing a reaction when it's been known for months. >> the variant was first identified in september. it's not something that just arose in the last week. it has become of concern because it is becoming the dominant variant in the u.k. the inference is because it is the dominant variant, it may be more transmissible. it may be true. it has not been proven, but it may be true. let me tell you what there is no evidence of noreen to believe, it is not any more lethal or any more dangerous than the normal coronavirus. no evidence to suggest that. no reason to believe it. there is also no evidence to suggest noreen to believe that

it would evade our vaccines that we have right now. >> there's also more troubling confirmation. how much vaccines are needed. the u.s. now averaging more than 215,000 new infections per day. we are expected to reach 18 million total infections today, which means that it took the nation just four days, just four, to see another million cases. let me turn now to cnn's miguel marquez who was in houston. he's at a hospital that will be giving the first shots of the moderna vaccine outside of the clinical trial. miguel, i saw you with a doctor there earlier saying that that vaccine for him was like holding a precious baby. set the scene for us. >> reporter: yeah. i want to give you a sense of where we are at united memorial medical center. behind those curtains over there, that's where the worst of the worst have been cared for for the last nine months. to go beyond those curtains you have to get into several layers of ppe, wrap your gear and take

several precautions to make sure you don't get coronavirus while covering it. down this hallway this is where the cafeteria is. this is where they're going to start injecting that new vaccine into the arms of staff here. we saw within the last hour they received the box, fed ex, from moderna. they opened it in front of us. it was a medium-sized box. most really boring thing on the planet you can think of, but it was highly emotional because they have seen so much death, so much dieing. and a lot of people surviving at this particular facility but it has been a very, very difficult time for the nurses and doctors that run this place. dr. joseph verone, his 277th day straight, the chief medical officer who runs this hospital, and for him to open this box. medium-sized box. smaller box inside of that and then two small boxes of the actual vaccine. he has about 300 doses.

it comes super cold, almost frozen if not frozen. they are putting it into a refrigerator to bring it up to 2 or 3 degrees celsius, that's 34, 35 degrees fahrenheit and then down this hallway in about an hour or so they're going to start injecting it into the first arms. he will get it, members of staff will get it and it will begin a long process. that light at the end of the tunnel, he said, of getting beyond this coronavirus pandemic. >> incredible. that box may look boring but it's anything but. it is a miracle. miguel marquez, thank you so much. >> thank you. the cdc board has added two new lists of recipients for the covid vaccine. after front line medical workers, next in line are what's called front line essential workers like grocery clerks, teachers, meat plant employees. anyone abled 75 or older is in this category. the next level involves those who are essential to transportation and logistics.

that includes people aged 65 to 74. let's talk about all of this with the medical expert, er dr. rob davidson. the committee to protect medicare. doctor, thank you so much for joining us. do you agree with the new designations? anyone you fear is being left out at this stage. >> i wish we had enough vaccine to get everyone vaccinated in a very short time, but i do agree that essential workers and folks over 70 -- 75 or over should be in the next wave. people 75 and over have a significantly increased risk of getting severely ill, getting hospitalized in the icu and dieing. we certainly need to prevent all of that. for front line essential workers i would have been trying if they were included in our wave or before me, in fact, because i think they're critical to keep all of our lives going. and i'm glad that they will get the vaccine they are in a high risk occupations, of course, because they're just facing the public so often and can't do

their jobs from home like a lot of people can. >> we knew this was going to be a complicated issue. it's gate to see the lists are expanding at least. for people at home seeing these two different vaccines, from pfizer and moderna, does it matter which one you get? >> we don't think so. listen, in my house my wife's a physician as well as myself. my wife just got the pfizer vaccine, i'm getting the moderna vaccine next weekend. we'll have a little experiment in one household. looking at the technology, the mrna technology developed in parallel but really the same exact technology, i think we're going to see the same response. the studies have shown about 95% efficacy for both. so i don't feel like people should worry about which one they get, they should get the one they can. >> keep us informed on your experiment. the variant of covid-19 in the united kingdom, what is it and

does it worry you at this point? >> we should all be a bit concerned and pay close attention to studies they're doing. what we know is it's a variant that contains, i believe, a dozen individual mutations. a few mutations here and there is pretty common for any type of virus, particularly these rna viruses. they do this all the time. i think this may have occurred in someone who had it for a very long time with a chronic carrier, so to speak, and it gave the virus time to have many little events happen that changed it. the virus doesn't know it's having mutations, they just happen naturally. some mutations have zero impact on the virus's ability to transmit. there is some suggestion because so many cases contain this set of mutations that perhaps this is more transmissible. it's also possible it happened to be in the circulation at a number of super spreader events and it just happens to be the predominant strain. that remains to be seen.

in the interim we have to be vigilant in watching out for the effects of the virus. >> we see other countries reacting more aggressively than the united states is. admiral giroir and anthony fauci says they don't need to ban travel though governor cuomo says action does need to be taken. what is your view? >> boy, my view would be to be as cautious as possible. we're trying to tell everybody to do everybody they can to stop the spread. i certainly -- i trust the folks in charge, but i would love to have a little bit more explanation why they wouldn't slow things down a bit. i know governor cuomo had said people on british airways are going to have a test before they leave. they have to prove that. they're asking other carriers. among them would be a good way to go. we'll have to collect as much data as possible to get the final answers. >> it's happening in the busiest travel season of the year as well. dr. rob davidson, thank you so

much. we appreciate it. good to see you. >> thanks. attorney general william barr had plenty to say today as he prepares to leave the department of justice this week. in a press conference the outgoing attorney general contradicted his boss on a series of subjects, including allegations of voter fraud, the hunter biden investigation, and president trump's insistence that russia is not responsible for a massive cyber attack on u.s. government agencies. the attorney general disagrees. >> from the information i have, you know, i agree with secretary pompeo's assessment. it certainly appears to be the russians. >> the president has continued to make the case that there was fraud in the election. you've already made your statement on that in an interview. do you believe there is enough evidence to warrant appointing a special counsel to look into it. >> if i thought a special counsel at this stage was the right tool and was appropriate,

i would do -- i would name one, but i haven't and i'm not going to. >> do you believe there should be a special counsel appointed to investigate the allegations against hunter biden? >> to this point i have not seen a reason to appoint a special counsel and i have no plan to do so before i leave. >> cnn's senior justice correspondent evan perez was in the room and asked the question about election fraud claims. evan, this was extraordinary. we have not yet heard from the president, though we probably should anticipate a tweet of outrage, perhaps, given his history. >> right. >> what struck you about what you heard from the outgoing attorney general? >> well, you know, the attorney general has taken pains in the past to try to tow the line that the president was -- had been taking, whether it came to -- whether it comes from vote fraud to his accusations about the muller investigation, so to me the fact that here he is just a couple days before he leaves this building for the last time

as attorney general, he's leaving here on wednesday, he's willing to say plainly that the president is wrong on a number of fronts. he says that he hasn't seen any evidence to appoint a special counsel to look into these allegations of vote fraud that the president has been making claiming that it was enough vote fraud to cost him the election, the attorney general saying not so. on looking into hunter biden, the son of vice president biden, incoming president, same thing. i haven't seen anything. the president raised the idea over the weekend that maybe, just maybe it was the chinese. so just the idea that the attorney general is walking out the door is making this clear demarcation of separation from the president, which is by the way the reason why he's leaving a little bit early, because he realized that the president has been talking behind the scenes about firing him. so he decided to make an exit on his own terms.

by the way, today that press conference was being held on the anniversary of the lockerby bombing in which he was an acting attorney general in 1991 when there was indictment of the two intelligence officers. he wanted to do that press conference today, bianna, before he did the exit. >> he split with the president on every issue he cares about. just bizarre. evan perez, thank you for being there for us. we appreciate it. >> sure. still ahead, i'll speak to congressman mike quiggly about the russian cyber attack. we'll break down what's in the $900 billion bill. we're live in london as a list of countries shutting their

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after months of negotiations and partisan fighting, congress is expected to vote on a $900 billion coronavirus relief bill today and finally send help to millions of struggling americans. the final text has yet to be released, but here is what we know so far. $600 in stimulus checks will be sent to those below a certain

income. eligible parents will get an additional $600 per child. the $300 jobless benefits set to expire will be extended for another 11 weeks. the paycheck protection program will get another $284 billion for small businesses. another $13 billion will be used for food stamp increases, food pan tris and nutrition programs. there is $25 billion set aside for rent assistance. manu, you have been working night and day. following the back and forth there is a lot in the bill. i know we haven't seen the text. some big items didn't make it. what were those? >> reporter: that led to this deal. democrats have been pushing for hundreds of billions of dollars for state and local governments to get aid. cities and states hit hard, republicans pushed back. they contended a lot of this in their view was a waste.

democrats had to drop that. republicans had to drop their own push, to include liability protections for businesses and other entities. that was dropped from the final overall $900 billion package. you mentioned it, we have not yet seen the text yet. what's pretty remarkable, we are learning one reason why the text has not been released is because of computer problems, printing and actually uploading this giant file is leading to a delay of getting this bill to be considered. that's what senator john thune the majority whip told ted barrett on the floor. so it's unclear how much of a setback that will be to getting the bill through today. first it has to get through the house rules committee, the floor, eventually the senate. we're expecting a late night as we rush up to a midnight deadline as we avert a shutdown. we have general outlines of the plan. there are a number of key provisions that will help

individuals, schools, colleges. namely $82 billion for schools and colleges. another $10 billion for child care facilities analso $20 billion for the purchase of vaccines and $8 billion for vaccine distribution among other issues, a $13 billion increase in food stamps and child nutrition benefits. this proposal, bianna, is so significant. it impacts so many sectors of the economy. it will be tied to $1.4 trillion bill to keep the government open past tonight through september you about lawmakers have not seen the details. there is plenty of frustration from senators who have not seen anything yet. the leadership is the one that cut the deal here. ultimately it will be dropped. there will be a push to get it through the house and senate. it will be a take it or leave it proposition. congress will ultimately take it, send it to the president's desk and sign it in the coming

days here, bianna. >> second largest stimulus in history and it's being held up in computer problems. thank you so much. you can't make this up, indeed. congressman mike quiggly joins me from washington. this has been a long road. are you happy with the final product? will it be enough? >> look, i'm going to vote for it. i'm not happy with t. it's obviously tardy and insufficient, but given the need out there that's so dramatic and pervasive, you simply have to support it and hope that under a new administration we can do better. >> hopefully you can work on fixing the printer problems as well. as you know, this bill is far from the $1.8 trillion offer that treasury secretary mnuchin made this fall. what happened? did democrats miss an opportunity there? >> you know, i heard that, but we passed a bill in may, we passed a bill in october. the heroes act, over 3 trillion.

then 2 trillion. respectfully, my response to mr. mnuchin is talk is cheap. the senate has not passed a measure towards this end since c.a.r.e.s., right? almost ten months ago. they can say that they ordffere this or that. nothing happened. civics. they meet in conference and they compromise. they simply never did that. >> this has taken a long time. i don't have to tell you how many millions of desperate americans are waiting for this aid. i do want to move onto the hack of u.s. federal agencies. he told reporters he agrees with mike pompeo that russia was behind the attack. russia, no surprise, denies it. no surprise that the president of the united states refuses to say it was russia. you sit on the house intel committee. by not acknowledging reality, at this point even with 30 days left, does the president pose a

threat to national security? >> he does, and he has been four years by denying russia's involvement in anything, including a bounty on u.s. troops. this is dangerous, unprecedented, pervasive, threat to our national economy, safety, way of life. one of the more scary things about it is to an extent we are flying blind. it will be a few months, perhaps years to find out what we're facing here. so for the president to say all is well and to not attribute this to force russia to comply and not deal with these thungs. it's going to take a biden administration steeped in the ways of a kremlin playbook to force fwfully respond and get t not to do this again. >> you have people from both

sides of the aisle and security experts as well saying that there is cyber security funding in that bill that is necessary to retaliate and to respond to russia's aggressions. the president has yet to sign it. what do you say to that? >> it's part of a larger picture. the president is, frankly, more worried about himself than he is with our country's security. it's been borne out time and time begin, again, threatens that national security effort. when mr. mccarthy says he won't vote to override, it concerns me that we've become so polarized that the leader on the republican side of the house can't stand up to the president when something like this passes to defend our country and it passes in such an overwhelming manner, he can't stand up to the president even now. >> i want to get your reaction

to this crazy, bizarre heated battle in the oval office between the president and michael flynn and one of his attorneys who is a conspiracy theer or r theorist. they discuss retaliation, martial law. the president fired her and now she's back in his good graces. what is your response to this bizarre and scary language coming out of this reporting? >> you know, i heard a few of my republican colleagues step up and call it nuts. it is nuts. it's crazy. it's dangerous. it's the definition of talking about who so my reaction beyond that was i don't think the vice president should travel. he's planning on leaving after the house and senate announced the electoral college votes on january 6th. very time when his country is probably going to need him most. he needs to be in the united states. i know it sounds extreme, but

when the president of the united states is talking about marshall law and overturning millions of votes and the democratic process, it's an unprecedented time for the vice president to act and stand up against this president. >> senator romney said over the weekend, it's embarrassing for the nation as well. congressman, thank you for joining us. we really do appreciate it. >> have a good holiday. >> thank you. >> you too. more than a dozen countries have cut off flights to and from the united kingdom after a new variant of the coronavirus is found there. they're meeting to discuss the next move. does president trump's downplaying of the russian hack downplay putin? i'll speak to fiona hill next. this week on "the upper hands"...

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much of europe is closing its borders to travelers from brittain after a new and potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus has been detected and is rapidly spreading throughout the u.k. more than 30 countries have either blocked travel to and from the u.k. or imposed some kind of restriction. so far the u.s. is not among them and federal health officials say while there is concern that the variant could already be in america, it has not yet been detected.

the change has trapped british freight drivers in gridlock. boris johnson addressing the public just moments ago. >> to our sblinternational frie and partners, i want to say we understand your concerns. i hope that everybody can see as soon as we were briefed in u.k. government on the fast transmissibility of this new strain at 3:15 on friday afternoon we lodged all the necessary information with the world health organization and we took prompt and decisive action the very next day to curb the spread of the new variant. >> senior international correspondent is outside 10 downing street. the prime minister there trying to assure everyone that

everything is under control, but a lot of criticism. just a few days ago he said christmas wasn't going to be canceled. a completely different story how. >> reporter: over the weekend he said christmas wasn't going to be canceled and then on sunday there was an abrupt u-turn. if you are looking for reassurance from the prime minister's press conference, there wasn't anything to hold on to. they had this to say. >> evidence of this virus is it spreads easily. it's more transmissible. we absolutely need to make sure we've got the right level of restrictions in place. i think it is likely that this will grow in numbers of the variant across the country and i think it's likely, therefore, that measures need to be increased in some places in due course, not reduced. so i think it is a case that this will spread more. >> reporter: we've got to make sure that we have the right set of measures in place.

that's what sir patrick vallance was saying, bianna. this is the thing that the prime minister and his cabinet seem to have been avoiding for months now, the right set of measures. they actually lifted a lockdown at the beginning of december in the hope that people would still be able to carry on with christmas in spite of people saying they couldn't predict they would have this variant. they could predict human behavior and action would only make this worse. despite the fact there is higher transmissibility, it doesn't change the fact that if the lockdown had been expanded, if measures had been taken, we wouldn't have been in this place. >> a lot of criticism from the prime minister as well as from the mayor of london. thank you so much. bill barr contradicting the president when it comes to that massive russia cyber hack, so

what will putin do with all of the information recovered? fiona hill, the president's top russia advisor, joins me next. we are still waiting for the first votes on the coronavirus relief bill that will deliver relief to millions of americans. we'll bring that to you live when it happens.

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u.s. government agencies and companies. the kremlin spokesman telling cnn, quote, russia had nothing to do with such attacks and this attack in particular. any accusations against russia in this regard are baseless and are probably the continuation of this blind phobia which is being engaged in any incident. this comes on the heels of donald trump downplaying the hack saying it isn't as bad as it's being reported. he suggested china could be behind it. joining me now is fiona hill. she was on the national security council. she's a senior fellow on foreign policy at the brookings institution. thank you so much for joining us. so timely to have you on. i've been wanting to talk to you about this, because no serious person doubts russia is behind this attack. mike pompeo said as much as did attorney general william barr this morning.

does the fact that this president is out of step, does that embolden putin to carry out operations like this hacking attack? >> of course it does. to really be able to push back on an attack of this nature or future attacks, we have to have a unified front. as you've seen, we've had anything but over the last several years. >> you've described this attack as classic espionage. russia, before that the soviet union have engaged in for many years. others say it is much more sinister than that. now that the russians have this incredible trove of data, what do you think putin will do with it? is there a chance he could weaponize it? >> i think that's part of the dilemma in trying to figure out what exactly information and data he has so we can determine what he can do with this. we have to bear in mind that it was, in fact, the chinese that did something similar a few years ago in terms of exfiltrating enormous amounts of

data from various databases, u.s. government databases, including a lot of personal information from anyone who had gone through a security clearance and people who are full-time employees of the government. and, you know, in every single one of those cases obviously our adversaries have an opportunity to do something with it. there are a lot of criminal groups. just before the election we were very worried about ransom wear attacks in hospitals. so there's all kinds of unfortunate possibilities of ways in which this data can be used. it should give us great cause for concern. >> do you have any doubt that it was the russians behind the latest attack? >> i have no doubt whatsoever at all. i think it's very beneficial for them to be able to cast this cloud of doubt over things as well. i mean, many of our colleagues call this implausible deniability. very quick to deny everything.

this sends people scrambling around often looking for culprits elsewhere, but also we have to bear in mind this is a win-win for russia. it's getting into the systems and exfiltrating information. then being accused. all of us spending weeks trying to pass what they've done and talking about it at the highest levels of government and here on the media as well. this gives them an awful lot of publicity emphasizing the prowess of the russian intelligence services. >> they've been doing this for nine months undetected until recently. i want to turn to the new details on the poisoning of russian opposition leader alexey navalny. clarissa ward linked to russia's fsb. today we are learning that a member of that team confessed in an incredible 49 minute phone call that a solid form of the toxin was placed in navalny's

underwear. you cannot make this up. russia is denying this, but given your expertise on russia and president putin, how do you square such a sloppy operation with the extreme sophistication of the cyber attack? >> well, these are carried out by different units. you know, there's a lot of experts that have been talking about this for some time, that you obviously have the a team and the b team. people have been wondering where are the a team? usually the foreign i will tenially againsts the sbr and the gau, the military targeting navalny. people have been worried about where the a team, the guys that we haven't seen, what are they up to? now we've discovered they're out there in cyber space, that their very best resources have been thrown in the new arena, not just of espionage, but of warfare, hybrid warfare which has been in the cyber realm. we're seeing the gou, the

military intelligence who are carrying out these other operations. it is really remarkable that navalny was able to get the person who was responsible for his poisoning on the phone. >> he didn't alter his voice. i listened to the entire conditions. you called the gru the b team. the fsb may be the z team. last week president putin denied the poisoning. he said if they ordered it, he would have finished the job gloating about that in his sinister chuckle. they're denying the hack but what is an effective way for the biden administration, the incoming biden administration, to respond to and deter putin while trying to maintain some workable relationship? >> the first thing we have to do is get our own act together. we need to have a system set up where the president, all the members of the cabinet, all of the key agencies and departments are all on the same page. clearly that's going to be the

first step. a full investigation behind the scenes of what's happened here, what kind of information has been exfiltrated. then we need to get the systems that we have in place fully working together. they've been undermined by the president being at odds with his own administration. we already have the cyber and infrastructure 1k50ursecurity a. chris krebs was fired from it. give them the opportunity and resources to do this. we need congress on the act. we need to be working with our allies. there's a nato component because of the critical infrastructure attacks and there's a component of working not just with european allies but also the japanese, indians, south koreans, other countries will be very concerned about this because we can be sure that the russians have also learned similar attacks through the vulnerable software programs. we need to be working on this in

a concerted effort and a united front. >> it is amazing and kind of sad we're talking about what a biden administration can do because we're not counting on this president doing much in his final few weeks in office. if we can touch on that and go back to trump's refusal to speak out about putin. in the past it was explained as a sensitivity that he had that russia could help him in his 2016 win. this attack is different. it had nothing to do with trump personally and yet he still cannot speak out. does that possibly suggest to you that this is more than trump's ego? putin may in fact have something on him? >> look, putin's got now, with all of these hacks, probably something on everybody. i think what it is is more that the president has admired putin for some considerable period of time, not just putin, but other similar larger than life celebrity leaders who seem to have unchecked power. i think he's finding it very hard to figure out that putin would actually do something that's attacking the united

states on his watch. i think he was fairly convinced that his own personal chemistry with putin would be able to push off these kinds of attacks. i think very sadly where you see a situation where people don't put the country first and there's been unfortunately a very long pattern of people putting their own interests first during this administration, that then we open up the vulnerability to this kind of thing. what we have to do is, again, pull ourselves together here, get the systems back in place and think again that this is an attack on our country. it isn't about one person's relationship with another person. >> this is a point you were making almost one year ago at the impeachment hearings as well. fiona hill, thank you so much for your expertise. we really appreciate it. thank you for coming on. >> thank you, bianna. >> happy holidays. >> you too. billions of dollars of food assistance can't come fast enough for the americans waiting in long lines at food banks across the country. we'll take you live to one of them after the break. footlong,!

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the stimulus relief bill could note come at a more dire time. americans struggling to pay bills amid the pandemic are also struggling to keep food on the table. food insecurities are especially troubling as we head into the holidays. rosa flores is at a food

warehouse in south florida. the need for food there as hauled since the beginning of the pandemic. it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: so many people are suffering in silence, because they don't have money to put food on the table. that's why everything you see around me here at feeding south florida, it's not just food. this is hope for mothers and fathers who are hoping to feed their children. one in five people here in south florida don't know where their next food will come from. that includes about 300,000 children. that's why we're seeing moms and dads waiting in line for hours for a box of food. that's where you met debra hightower. shoos an accountant, 57 years old, a mother of three teenagers, who was shaking with emotion in her car, because she says she felt guilty for being there. she was afraid the person behind

her might have more needs than her. she just got out of the hospital recently and she has lost her job twice during the pandemic. here's what she had to say. >> i've always been hesitant about -- i -- sorry. i would hate for me to get the last of something and the person behind me abe in a worse position. i'm very independent, and don't ask for help, but sometimes god humbles you. >> bianna, there are so many debras from across the country. people from this food bank only expect the need to grow as the pandemic continues to surge. >> debra has nothing to be ashamed of, nor the millions of people who are food insecure. hopefully congress can help.

rosa flores, thank you. president-elect joe biden and his wife jill are expected to get the vaccine this afternoon. this is as video comes in with the moderna vaccine being delivered. we'll return after the break.

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. hi there, you are watching cnn on this monday. i'm brooke baldwin. great to be with you. we begin with news about the second vaccine that's available for use. we are seeing the first moderna vaccining being administered across the hospitals in the u.s. the goal is to inject 20 million doses by the first week of january, and health and human services secretary alex azar said he'