thank you. i barely felt it . >> awesome. >> thank you, patricia. thank you. i want to thank you united medical center for the work you do in southeast d.c. serving a community that is often overlooked. so it is good to be here. and i have now been vaccinated, as joe likes to say, there's a big difference between the vaccine and vaccinations. i want to encourage everyone to get the vaccine. it is relatively painless. it happens really quickly. it is safe. the moderna, the pfizer, today

hi the moderna vaccine, my husband is going to have it today as well. i look forward to getting the second vaccine. and literally this is about saving lives. it's literally about saving lives. i trust the scientists. and it is the scientists who created and approved this vaccine. so i urge everyone, when it is your turn, get vaccinated. it's about saving your life, the life of your family members and the life of your community. and so, thank you, and let's all do what we need to do to stay healthy and safe this holiday season. and every day of the year. thank you all. >> madame vice president-elect, taking this test -- excuse me, this vaccine, is this an effort to dispel fear and mistrust in the minority community with this

vaccine? >> i'm in anacostia today because first of all we have phenomenal health care providers like nurse patricia, who serve the community. and we have hospitals and medical centers and clinics like this all over the country who are staffed by people who understand the community, who often come from the community. and who administer all year round trusted health care. so i want to remind people that right in your community is where you can take the vaccine, where you will receive the vaccine, by folks you may know. folks who are working in the same hospital where your children were born. folks who are working in the same hospital where an elderly relative received the kind of care they needed. so i want to remind people that they have trusted sources of help and that's where they will be available to go to get the vaccine. so i encourage them to do that. >> and on the stimulus checks, the response to increase it to

$2,000, it may not pass, mitch mcconnell -- >> well, i actually have a bill for that. we are -- a while back i recommended that folks receive a $2,000 check. and so i would urge mitch mcconnell to put my bill on the floor for a vote. >> thank you, everyone. thank you. >> you are watching there the vice president-elect kamala harris leaving the public hospital here in washington d.c. as she just received her first dose of two doses of the coronavirus vaccine. she said she was receiving the moderna -- moderna's vaccine there. i want to bring in our cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen as well as kristen homes in washington. we've heard so many times elizabeth from epidemiologists, the doctors, the vaccine won't

save lives, vaccination will save lives. it's no coincidence that the top question there, the only question that kamala harris fielded as she left was one about suspicion among the black community. and it's no coincidence about where she went to receive this vaccine in washington d.c. in a -- in the black community in washington d.c. that is where this hospital is located. she's trying to send a message and as she said, i trust the science, it is the scientists who created and approved this. >> that's right. there's a reason, as you said, there's a reason why she went to the place she chose to go. polls have shown there's been a fair amount of hesitancy and suspicion about the vaccine in general across the country but especially in the black community, and there are legitimate reasons for that when you look at tuskegee and other experiments done on black people that went on for decades. when you look at the current

state of things there are still biases in medicine today. so i think we can acknowledge that and at the same time say look, this is a different situation. this vaccine was tested on tens of thousands of people, it has now been used in over 2 million people, including the vice president and we have not seen serious reactions. and hopefully what people -- all people not just people of color, but what all people feel is there's science, it's been transparent, it's out there, you can read it if you want to, you can ask your doctor to read it and there have been few side effects to this, maybe a fever, body aches, lasted a day or two, there have not been any serious side effects. there have been a small, six people that we know of, with allergic reactions that were handled quickly and easily. that's the important thing that people need to remember here, there is real science behind it and real scientists such as dr. anthony fauci who stand behind

those findings. >> as you mentioned, there are real reasons for suspicion when you're talking about the african-american community in the u.s. and then there's also the fact of just how hard hit african-americans in the u.s. have been affected. so this is hugely important to see vice president-elect kamala harris getting this vaccination. right now, kristen, there are a lot of obstacles that need to be overcome in order to make sure that americans are getting vaccinated. i mean, especially when you look at the supply at this point in time. the number of vaccines that are available. this is the part that is most troubling to people watching the rollout of this. you have 11 million vaccinations. doses of these vaccinations from pfizer and moderna that have been distributed and yet 2.1 have been administered. when you look at other countries, the u.s. isn't doing as well getting these out the

door and in the arms of people. >> that's right, brianna. i spoke to a senior administration official about this asking why we are so behind. we have to keep in mind the trump administration promised 20 million doses in arms by the end of the year. we are now two days from that deadline and we are at 2.1 million, according to the cdc. now a senior administration official said to me this was expected. this is because of a lack in reporting of data, and a top official at operation warp speed actually explained this further to me, saying that according to the cdc health care providers have to report the doses to state, territorial and local health agencies up to 72 hours after the administration of the vaccine and then they have to then give that to the cdc. so that's why those numbers are behind. but when you hear about this underestimation of those numbers i have to point to what dr. fauci said on our air today, which was essentially even if it is an underestimation, how much

of a possible underestimation could it be, even if it's 2 million that still leaves us behind that 20 million doses. you mentioned this, several of the health officials i have spoken to have said supply is still a huge issue. the fact we're going to need to have 330 million people getting vaccinated and we are nowhere near that kind of number. and the other part here that wasn't taken into consideration, i'm hearing this from health care providers across the country is how hard it is to transport and store this vaccine and how many of these places weren't prepared. i want to note when we talk about human error, we have learned that 500 doses of the moderna vaccine were thrown out at a health care facility in wisconsin because they were taken out of a refrigerator and not put back. this is the kind of human error we're talking about here when we talk about the vaccine. >> that is just -- that is something to hear, elizabeth. it's difficult to think of that going wasted.

the elixir of life of so many americans in need of this vaccine. that explanation, an underestimation of how many vaccines have been administered, what do you make of that, considering we're hearing according to certain doctors like dr. jha, that manufacturers like pfizer say they have millions of doses sitting around waiting for these vaccine doses to be allocated? >> so a couple of points here. what kristen just said is on the nose. dr. fauci said even if it is an underestimate, essentially it's still too low. 11 million distributed about 2 million put into arms. even if that 2 million is double, even if it's 4 million, triple, 6 million, you can't say underreporting, sure it's underreported, but is it under reported by that match? it's hard to believe, even if it's double that number or triple, it's still to low. thinking back to the

conversations i had with operation warp speed officials last fall and they emphasized we're going to get the doses out there, 20 million doses out there, fed ex, ups, trucks we're going to make it happen and they did. but i would say once the doses get there, how do you get them into arms quickly? they said that's up to the hospital, the state, the nursing home. that's the problem. they did a great job of planning how to get the doses to the places, but having these clinics getting these shots into arms that is not always quick and easy. there are a number of hurdles that needs to be overcome and the bulk of the planning was about getting the doses there not how to make the clinics work quickly. we're seeing other countries do it more quickly and those are countries with single payer systems, national health services. it's easier and quicker to do it when you have one place in charge, which is not the situation in the u.s. >> interesting point. thank you so much for your great

reporting kristen. let's talk about this more with dr. leana wen, she's a contributing columnist for "the washington post." when you look at these numbers, how concerned should we be? >> i think we should be pretty concerned, especially if we do the math because right now if we're at 2 million doses that are vaccinated or given to people within two weeks, at that pace, it will take us more than 10 years to reach 80% of all americans vaccinated because this is a two-dose vaccine. obviously we need to scale this up, ramp this up rapidly. and what i would like to see from the trump administration is an acknowledgement that the pace is not where it should be. that we need to be doing a lot of things differently but we need to start by being honest and saying, this is -- we're really not on track at all, so where are the barrier, the problems how can we work together to address them, instead of deflecting

responsibility to state and local entities. >> do you have a sense where the barriers are? we're talking about look getting to the vaccine was a huge step. then it is manufacturing the vaccine which they were doing ahead of the emergency use authorization. then it's about getting it to the states. it's about getting it to different hospitals. some are publically owned, some are privately owned, lots owned by different places. and then there are considerations about refrigeration, keeping these frozen. who needs to have put in place a widespread plan that didn't just take a piece of this? >> i think you've just articulated the primary issue, which is that there are so many elements to this incredibly complex operation. and there needs to be a single national strategy for how we're going to do this. i'm not saying that the -- only the federal government is in charge here. we know that so much is going to be happening at the local level. it's going to depend on

employers and individual health clinics and pharmacies to do the implementation on the ground. but we need to have a lot more direction from the federal government and the estimates and the time line that's given, sure it can be optimistic but it should be realistic as well. and once we identify what the barriers are, we can all work together to overcome them because ultimately the challenge is in every way, production, distribution and the last mile of how we're going to translate the vaccine in a vial to vaccinations. >> i'm sure you're tracking closely what's happening in the uk as well, you have cases reportedly rising again despite lockdowns. scientists fear this is a new contagious strain that is driving the increase. what do we need to know about this more transmissible strain? >> what we know so far is that the strain is not more vir lunt so it doesn't cause more severe

disease if you get it you're not likely to be hospitalized or die. but it looks like it's 70% more transmissable which is a problem because the more this virus spreads the more infections you get. and by definition more infections translates to more hospitalizations to overwhelming our systems more, and more deaths as well. so in the u.s. we need a better surveillance system, better testing to figure out not only is this strain here but also are there other strains that are home grown that we're not picking up yet. >> as we know, this virus mutates i think every few weeks, is that right? >> it actually is constantly mutating. that's what viruses do but it's with surveillance we're able to pick up on the mutations. >> good point. thank you for your expertise on this. great to see you. coming up, two critical bills in the senate's hands now, both are

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from the runoff battleground in georgia to the golf club in south florida that the president is visiting yet again this morning all eyes are on republicans in the senate. next hour we could learn how majority leader mitch mcconnell

will handle two critical issues now in his chamber following votes in the house. increasing pandemic relief checks from $600 to $2,000 and overriding the president's veto of the defense funding bill. we find lauren fox covering all of this on capitol hill in a busy time between christmas and new year's. let's start with the stimulus checks where are we on these? >> reporter: at noon, majority leader mitch mcconnell expected to open the senate when we'll get a glimpse of what his plans are. this passed in the house of representatives last night with a majority two thirds, many republicans voting with democrats to make sure they got this across the finish line in that chamber. so the question is whether or not mitch mcconnell will bring it to a vote in his chamber. there have been five republican senators who say they support a $2,000 stimulus check for individuals, whether or not they

support the exact language of the house bill might be a term of difference here to really realize moving forward, but it's important to note there are few key senators we've heard from today, including david perdue and kelly loeffler who are both running for re-election on january 5th in the state of georgia, they say they both now support the $2,000 stimulus checks. an important note on how and where this might go in the u.s. senate. i'm told there are a lot of republicans concerned about having to take this vote and potentially cross president trump. >> this is a tough one for them. and they're also facing this vote on the defense funding bill. of course, the president vetoed it, the house voted to override the veto now it's up to the senate here. tell us a little bit about the plan that bernie sanders has as he tries to make sure there's a vote on the relief checks first. >> reporter: everything really goes back to those $2,000 stimulus checks, especially what bernie sanders, an independent

from vermont, is arguing is that unless he sees majority leader mitch mcconnell move forward with the $2,000 stimulus checks he's going to delay a vote on the ndaa override. mcconnell hoped to bring that to the floor tomorrow but if bernie sanders objects, that happens if mcconnell doesn't bring the $2,000 stimulus check bill to the floor, it essentially pushes that vote into friday, that's new year's day, a holiday when a lot of lawmakers would like to be back in their states. >> nothing like threatening them with some work on a holiday to get them to stick around and do the job. lauren fox, thank you so much. live for us on capitol hill. the president is lashing out after getting mixed results from the house of representatives last night. more than 100 republicans joined with democrats to override the president's veto of this big defense bill. in tweets this morning, he slammed republican leadership as, quote, weak and tired and he's also keeping the pressure

up on this $2,000 value for these relief checks going out to americans. i want to bring in former republican congresswoman mia love of utah to discuss this. i wonder what you think about this? does the president have a firm grip on the republican party? is it slipping? are we about to find out? >> i think it's actually slipping. look, the president is not going to be there in january and kevin mccarthy and all of the other republicans have got to decide what they're going to do next. they have got to decide whether they're going to get back to the fiscally disciplined republican party, whether they're going to continue to follow the president, i do not see any win-win for them to continue to follow the president at all costs. they still have a lot of work to do, and as you remember, everything that they do in the house of representatives and in the senate is going to affect what happens in these runoff races. so they have to be very careful

about how they defined themselves and how that effects other races around the country. >> you have both of georgia's republican senators, perdue and loeffler who say they support this call to increase these relief checks to $2,000. do you have a sense of how this might play out in the senate? do you think this is something that is going to succeed? >> look, i think that mitch mcconnell has got his hands full. i also think that if there's anybody that can get something to happen, it's mitch mcconnell. and i do not believe that he's actually even taking the president into consideration. except for that he knows that the president still has a large following. so what he's going to do is, he's going to have to try to play off what the president is doing and how he can maintain the majority in the house -- in the senate. that is going to be his number one priority. so if you have some of these people that are still going through election, that are saying, hey, we want to support

this. he is going to take that into consideration because he wants to maintain the majority in the senate, which is his number one priority. >> how difficult to spot are republicans in, senate republicans, where they potentially would have to vote against more money for americans and against a veto by the president? how do they manage this difficult spot and how do republican leaders manage this? >> so everyone is going to have their own ways of managing it and what their constituents are telling them. but it is an incredibly tough spot. it's one that i am actually happy that i'm not in right now. the fact that you have to still decide who you're going to be, remember, fiscally disciplined we're at $27 trillion in debt right now. that is something that they still have to take ownership for. because that was run up, large part, by the president. republicans have gotten away from that, and americans are still saying, who's going to handle the debt?

you also have to understand that there are a lot of people that have been out of work and right now their number one priority is i need to feed my family. there's nothing to hold me over. it's going to be a very difficult situation and unfortunately republicans are in a less advantage place right now in terms of making these decisions. >> yeah, they are. look they are, congresswoman, facing some real challenges here posed by the situation on the ground. we spoke yesterday with a single mom of two from nebraska who had to take a leave of absence from her job because she was at risk if she were to get covid of dying and she's a single mom and she's feeding her kids on $50 a week when it comes to groceries. i want to ask you about a loyalty test for republicans that's coming january 6th. congress will certify the electoral college vote. adam kinzinger said he's

concerned there may be violence. i wonder if that's a concern you share? >> i certainly hope not. anything is possible. this has been a really interesting, odd year, presidency, anything is possible. but i certainly hope not. and i certainly hope that republicans remember who they are actually loyal to. and that is the american people that have elected them to be in the position to represent them. remember that the house of representatives and members of congress is the branch of government closest to people. >> very good reminder. thank you so much. appreciate it, congresswoman mia love. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. up next, president-elect joe biden is accusing trump appointees of obstructing the transition of power. wake up on the right side of the bed this year shop the new year sale with 15% off today at casper.com

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joe biden is slamming trump political appointees for obstructing the transition of power as the president-elect prepares to begin his administration in just over three weeks. >> we have encountered roadblocks from the political leadership at the department of defense and the offenice of management and budget. right now we just aren't getting all the information we need from the outgoing administration in key national security areas. it's nothing short, in my view

of irresponsibility. >> now biden went on to say that one of his concerns is the need for a clear picture of the u.s. defense posture around the world as he is preparing to become commander in chief. joining me is ryan brown. we also have national security analyst samantha vingrad with us. this seems as the vice president-elect is describing this as a reasonable posture he would like to enter the white house as having. what is the dod saying about this right now? >> the pentagon is pushing back strongly on president-elect biden's criticism saying they have presented a lot of briefing material to the incoming transition team, saying they've conducted 164 interviews, provided 5,000 pages of documents. but the pentagon does acknowledge it has taken a break from the interviews, a holiday pause, initially saying the biden team saying they agreed to

a pause. pentagon saying additional interviews are scheduled to begin january 4th and other transition work and communication between the two sides continue but clearly the biden camp not happy with how the transition is playing out with regard to the department of defense so far. >> sam, help us understand this because i do not personally understand a break this long for the holidays when you're talking about a transition into -- look, there just really aren't holidays as they normally would exist when you're transitioning to a new administration. this seems reasonable these things would continue. what are your concerns here? >> christmas break is not on the transition calendar. look, it is clear that trump has an ax to grind with joe biden because biden won the election. we're seeing that play out during the transition process. and while trump and his political appointees may think they're hurting joe biden, they're actually hurting all of us. the transition process is governed by body of legislation

dating back to 1963 that's ground that any disruption in the transition of power could lead to the detriment and safety of the united states and its people. that's why there's a process required by law. part of the transition process is ensuring that transition team personn personnel, agency review teams, are able to go into agencies and departments to understand the operations of that agency and learn about policy operations and budget. we know the biden transition got to a late start because of the delayed ascertainment of the general services administration. now we're hearing even with ascertainment, the federal government is not fully participating in the process, that creates a risk because we're in the middle of a pandemic and a cyber attack so trump may think he's hurting joe biden but he's hurting us. >> to that point, the cyber attack.

right now russia, we learned actually this happened a while ago, but it's ongoing, that russia believed to have launched this massive cyber attack. and this is something that is going to be continuing. and a response will be necessary by the biden -- the incoming biden administration. this is sort of a big project to be handed off from one administration to another. >> that's absolutely correct. i think one of the few meetings that is taking place during this kind of break we're told will focus on cyber security, one of the few meetings occurring between the biden side and the pentagon team. the pentagon saying the cyber issue is a big issue, a broader issue, cross government. there's a little bit of finger pointing on who's responsible for briefing the biden team on issues. but it's one of many issues that the biden team has to inherit coming in and they feel at this

point in time they have not been adequately prepared with information. the pentagon pushing back saying they've given the information they can. still don't understand the pause, the break, why the biden team seemed not to be aware the break was happening. it's unclear why they're having a difficult issue. the biden team saying they're not encountering similar issues with other trump administration government agencies. it's really the pentagon that seems to be at the center of this. >> is there anything more important, i wonder to you, i have covered a number of transitions i have never heard of something like this happening and we're talking about the defense department. this is arguably the most important part where there needs to be some cooperation here. one of the most amazing things normally about america and in transition is that you see the hand off pretty smoothly and very graciously normally. even between democrats and

republicans. this to me, i wonder how you are characterizing this compared to other things you've seen? >> president-elect joe biden called this irresponsible. i'll go a step further, trump's actions are flat out unpatriotic. this transition process was going to be historically complex because of the number of crises we're facing and the operational constraints imposed by covid-19. now what we're seeing is president trump knowingly hamstring biden's team. this message is sent from the top during the 2000 election when there were contested results there were delays but never have we seen an outgoing administration throw down roadblocks and endanger the american people. they should be giving the biden team more information and not less. >> thank you both so much. a happy new year, i don't think i'll see you, before the end of 2020. nice to see you both. >> happy new year. still ahead, how the fate of

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election day in georgia is just one week away and president trump's 11th hour call for higher stimulus checks is putting pressure on senators kelly loeffler and david perdue ahead of their runoff elections. after the house voted to increase stimulus check the $2,000, all eyes are on senator

mitch mcconnell today to see if he brings it to the senate floor. both loeffler and perdue weighed in with their support. joining me is greg thank you for coming on and helping us understand everything georgia going on. we know senator perdue has dodged this question repeatedly, so what's behind his support and what impact could this have on the race. >> he has dodged questions throughout the last week even after cutting an ad that touts his support for the initial $600 stimulus check. i think now that senator loeffler has come out saying she supports the increase to $2,000 checks that senator perdue had a little bit more clearance and more leeway to voice his own support. they feel like this is a winning issue for them. and it deprives democrats of an

attack this last week. >> i want to read this "the washington journal" editorial headline saying trump gives schumer an assist to make democrats the majority. what do you think about that? how is this playing in georgia, and might this actually affect the election? >> yeah, this has become a centerpiece of the democratic argument in the final stretch of this -- these runoff races. and every campaign stop, both democrats have been saying if voters elect a democratic controlled senate, voters would get $2,000 stimulus checks so they've been putting pressure on republicans and really trying to drive a wedge between the two senators and donald trump, their most important supporter who's coming to georgia in about six days. putting the republicans in a big bind before they finally broke their silence today. >> the house just voted to override president trump's veto

of the defense bill. this huge defense funding bill and that also puts senate republicans in a tough spot. there is funding for the nine military installations in georgia in this bill and a pay bump for the troops. and both lof lerleffler and pert out support for the bill previously but now if they defend the bill they risk alienating the president. how is this playing out for them ahead of the election? >> reporter: there's hundreds of thousands of military veterans here in georgia they've been trying to urge their support to come ut and vote again on january 5th. another bind for republicans because they are wary of doing anything at all to put distance between them and president trump, especially as he's been railing against republican leaders who defied his call to overturn georgia's election results. again, he's coming back here on

monday to rally republican voters. republicans still have a lot of votes out there. democrats are more aggressive in this early voting by mail and in person, but republicans so far judging by the early voting numbers, republicans rely on a huge january 5th turn out. that's why the two republican candidates feel like they cannot alienate president trump whatsoever. >> these races, these elections in georgia are going to be so key to what a biden presidency is going to look like. early voting began two weeks ago, more than 2.3 million georgians have already cast their ballots. do you have an idea of the state of the race there? >> it's tough. already we have set runoff electorate records, 2.3 million plus people as you mentioned. looking like 3 million will be

the floor, we could get closer to 3.5 million overall turnout. polls have shown a close race, some show democrats with an edge. if you talk to the campaigns and operatives around the races they all think it's basically a coin flip right now. >> it's going to be a nail biter here. greg you are in the middle of it we appreciate you joining us greg bluestein. >> thank you. coming up police reveal new details about the final moments before an unarmed black man was shot and killed by an ohio police officer. what the officer supposedly shouted moments before he opened fire.

we are following new developments in the shooting of an unarmed black man in columbus, ohio, we're getting more details from a statement given by the partner of the officer who shot and killed andres hill. g tell us what's in the new statement. >> reporter: it was a week ago that 47-year-old andres hill was killed by the police department, adam coy. cnn obtained interviews that happened shortly after the shooting by the columbus police department. these are all part of an internal police investigation that happened. in the interviews we learned from the partner of adam coy,

the police officer, that she says he said that hill had a gun. hill had a gun before firing those deadly shots. we've also learned from a separate lieutenant that arrived there at the scene of the shooting that he said that officer coy was acting differently, he was doing actions that raised alarms in his head. let's back up a little bit to reiterate to viewers that this happened a week ago. police were responding in columbus, ohio to a nonemergency disturbance call. shortly after they arrived on scene, deadly shots were fired against andres hill. it was determined that hill was not carrying a gun. again, those interviews part of an internal investigation done by columbus police department that resulted just yesterday in the firing of adam coy. i want you to know the family of andres hill says they want more, they want criminal charges filed. that's certainly a possibility as the state is now investigating this case and

internal interviews, brianna, are part of the state investigation, so this of course is a story we'll stay on top of. that's the latest. >> an incredibly troubling detail we're learning there. so what happens next? >> reporter: the internal investigation, this resulted in the firing. we'll see what happens when the state investigates. when this goes to grand jury, will criminal charges be filed. the family is represented by benjamin crump, want more body footage released, more information released to the public so the case can move forward in the legal system, brianna. >> there are many questions. brynn gingras covering this. thank you. all eyes on the senate. will republicans stand with the president on two critical votes, including $2,000 relief checks. we'll take you live to capitol hill next. for veteran families,

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it is top of the hour. i am brianna keilar. we are standing by for first clues from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell howl handle two tests of republican loyalty. will the gop led senate side with democrats and stand with president trump on increasing pandemic relief checks to $2,000. will they stand up to him by overriding his veto of