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momentum will pick up in the next few weeks. this is cnn breaking news. >> so, we have this shocking white house phone call that is rocking u.s. politics and wudenning the split in the republican party. in this hour-long call, president donald trump pushes georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger to, quote, find quotes that would overturn joe biden's election victory. i want you to listen to this exchange with raffensperger's general counsel ryan germany. >> all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. and flipping the state is a great testament to our country because, you know, there's just -- it's a testament that

they can admit to a mistake or whatever you want to call it if it was a mistake. i don't know. a lot of people think it wasn't a mistake. it was much more criminal than that. but it's a big problem in georgia, and it's not a problem that's going away. i mean, you know, it's not a problem that's going away. and we've got to -- >> mr. president, this is ryan. we're looking into every one of those things you mentioned. >> good. if you find them you've got to say it, ryan. ryan -- >> i'll tell you what we are seeing. >> go ahead. go ahead. >> what we're seeing is not at all what you're describing. and these are investigators from our office. these are investigators from gbi. and they're looking and they're good. and that's not what they're seeing. and we'll keep -- we'll keep looking. we'll keep looking at all of these things. >> well, there's much more actually in this clip that i'm going to play you now. mr. trump repeats false accusations and conspiracy theories. he also refuses to listen as

raffensperger and germany disprove him. >> do you think it's possible that they shredded ballots in fulton county because that's what the rumor is? and also that dominion took out machines, that dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their machinery. do you know anything about that? because that's illegal. >> this is ryan germany, no. dominion has not moved any machinery out of fulton county -- >> but have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts? >> no. >> you sure, ryan? >> i'm sure. i'm sure, mr. president. >> what about -- what about the -- what about the ballots? the shredding of the ballots? have they been shredding ballots? >> the only investigation we have into that, they have not

been shredding any ballots. there was an issue in cobb county where they were doing normal office running, getting rid of old stuff and we investigated that. but this is stuff from past elections. >> it's very -- it doesn't pass the smell test though because we hear they're shredding thousands and thousands of ballots and now what they're saying, oh, we're just cleaning up the office. you know, i don't think that plays. >> mr. president, the problem you have with social media, people can say -- >> no, this isn't social -- this is trump media. it's not social media. it's really not. it's not social media. i don't care about social -- i couldn't care less. social media is big tech. big tech is on your side. i don't even know why you have a side because you should want to have an accurate election and you're a republican. >> we believe that we do have an accurate election. >> no you don't don't. no you don't.

you don't have -- you don't have -- not even close. you're off by hundreds of thousands of votes. and just on the small numbers, these numbers can't be done. well why won't -- you send this to cobb county for signature verification. you end us into cobb county, which we didn't want to go into, and you said it could be open to the public. we had our experts there. we wanted fulton county and why can't it be open to the public and why can't have we have professionals who do it instead of rank amateurs who don't want to find anything. you know they don't want to find anything. someday you'll tell me the reason why because i don't understand your reasoning. but someday you'll tell me the reason why. why don't you want -- what? >> sorry, go ahead. >> yeah, why did -- okay, so why did you do cobb county.

we didn't even request -- we requested fulton county, not cobb county? go ahead, please, go ahead. >> we chose cobb county because that was the only county where there's been any evidence submitted that a signature verification was not properly done. >> i told you but we're not saying that. we're the grieved party. fulton county -- stacey in my opinion, stacey is as dishonest as they come. she has outplayed you at every part -- she got you to sign a totally unconstitutional agreement which is a disastrous agreement. you can't check signatures. i can't imagine you're allowed to do harvesting i guess in that agreement. that agreement is a disaster for this country. and -- but she got you somehow to sign that thing and she is a -- she's outsmarted you at

every step. and i hate to imagine what's going to happen on monday or tuesday, but it's very scary to people. >> well, raffensperger's office recorded that call. a source says advisers were instructed not to release the tape unless mr. trump attacked him or misrepresented what happened. well, sunday morning the president did just that, prompting this response from raffensperger. respectfully, president trump, what you're saying is not true. the truth will come out. now, "the washington post" reported that phone call a few hours later, and john harwood now reports on the call and of course the growing political fallout. john. >> reporter: just a little two weeks in donald trump's presidency, the bombshells keep dropping. on sunday, it was "the washington post" revelation that

president trump pressured the republican secretary of state of georgia to find extra votes to overturn joe biden's victory there. never mind that the electoral college tally has been certified in all 50 states. never mind that joe biden does not need georgia's 16 electoral votes to win. he's got 306, which is well over the 270 you need. never mind there's no evidence of widespread fraud or irregularity in georgia voting or vote counting. the president was repeating fantasies about shredded ballots and altered voting machines. brad raffensperger resisted even though president trump appeared to him to act as a fellow republican. the white house is not commenting on this tape, hard to know what they would say considering the president is on the tape including mark meadows. the tape affirms president trump's assault on democracy since the election. vice president-elect kamala harris said this was a bald

faced abuse of power. the irony is this could end up strengthening joe biden's presidency if it tilts at all the very close races for two georgia senate seats that take place on tuesday. if democrats win both, democrats would control the senate, and that would give joe biden a lot freer hand in terms of legislation. >> thanks john for that. i want to talk more about georgia. kyung lah is on the campaign trail, gauging more reaction from that call with brad raffensperger. take a look. >> reporter: well, democrats are seizing on that call between president trump and georgia's secretary of state, calling it undemocratic. we heard from vice president-elect kamala harris who was here in savanna stumping for the two democratic challengers hoping to flip those two senate seats on tuesday. >> have y'all heard about that

recorded conversation? well, it was yes certainly the voice of desperation, most certainly that. and it was a bald, bald-faced bold abuse of power by the president of the united states. >> the president of the united states calls up georgia's election officials and tries to intimidate them to change the result of the election, to disenfranchise georgia voters, to disenfranchise black voters in georgia who delivered this state for joe biden and kamala

harris -- that is a direct attack on our democracy. and if david perdue and kelly loeffler had one piece of steel in their spines, one shred of integrity, they would be out here defending georgia voters from that kind of assault. >> it's hard to miss what this image means, if raphael warnock and jon ossoff flip those two senate seats, kamala harris becomes the tiebreaker. democrats then control the senate. that is what is at stake on tuesday. we did reach out to senators loeffler and perdue for comment on the call. neither of them returned our calls. kyung lah, cnn, savanna, georgia. joining me now is lisa rem, host of "morning edition." lisa, wonderful to see you. i normally hear you on the radio so it's great to see you in person. >> thank you so much. great to be here. >> it's going to be a big week for american politics and

georgia is in the middle of all of this. what do you think is really going to change the tide in this senate run off? is it turnout? and crucially, who comes out? who is energized and in what numbers? >> that has been tremendous, 3 million early votes cast and thousands and thousands more are expected to come tuesday. but right now, everyone is talking about this phone call that president trump supposedly made. and there's audio of it calling secretary of state brad raffensperger kind of asking him to tweak the numbers a little bit in his favor. he's still smarting off about this presidential election and how it turned out here in georgia. the timing is terrible. like i said, everyone seems to be talking about that and not the key candidates in this all-important race. it has a lot of people scratching their heads tonight wondering what, one, president trump is thinking, and what does

this truly mean for the republican party? and specifically the candidates come tuesday? >> in many ways, mr. trump's messaging has been mixed when it comes to this election right from the beginning and hasn't helped or hindered the republicans is going to be the big question because he said this election is crooked, that the vote was stolen. but says at the same time, hey, but still go out and vote. do you think that will dampen the republican turnout? >> well, i think it's going to dampen the republican turnout now because just this morning he tweeted, you know, that he thinks tuesday's election will be fraught with fraud, so to speak. so, he's really turning things upside-down for his very own party. recently on "morning edition" i interviewed the former chair of the georgia gop, chuck clay, and he is outraged this is happening now. he says the timing is horrible.

t what the republican party needs now is a lot of healing. what the republican party needs now is to get behind these two candidates, senator perdue and kelly loeffler, and try to push them over the top. the polling has the races very, very tight at this point. and he says the last thing that you need at this point is this distraction from president trump. >> how has stacey abrams' mobilization efforts continued to make an impact, particularly for georgia voters, particular particular for the african-american community here in georgia? do you think that will make a difference in the same way it made a difference in the presidential election? >> yeah, it is a big deal because just for those run off election alone, her fight organization and the new georgia project both aim to get the disenfranchised voter registered and get them to the polls, registered nearly 800,000 new voters ahead of this run off

election. so, she's still playing a huge role in this. and the belief is that possibly those disenfranchised voters that she went after and got registered to vote for this election may tilt the election in the democratic -- democrat favorites -- in their favor, rather. >> all of us here in georgia have been overwhelmed by the messag messaging coming from both sides. it's saturation in terms of the political add veretts. and i think there's particular exhaustion from listeners and viewer. which ground game do you think has won out? in many ways it's been very clear. the democrats have painted the republicans as you want kr. the republicans are painting the democrats as radical socialist. what has landed? >> well, i don't think anything when it comes to those attack ads because what's happening here, you have a lot of faction of voters saying we don't hear our messaging that we want to hear from the candidates.

on "morning edition" i've been able to interview youth voters, that all-important 18 to 29 real voting bloc. they're concerned about the economy. they're concerned about the environment and climate. the hispanic community, the latino community, they're diverse in itself. they too have major concerns they're not hearing in this is 1st hour. also women voters, very important in this election and many others in the past. they're not hearing their concerns about health care, job losses. many people on the verge of eviction. many people have lost people during this pandemic. they want to hear these messages from the candidates, especially if they have not voted and they're heading to the polls on tuesday. and that's not happening. so, it's going to be interesting to find out on the other side what drove the people to the polls. >> lisa, thank you very much for joining us. thanks for bringing us your expertise. >> thank you so much for having me. nancy pelosi is now starting her fourth term as speaker of

the house of the representatives. she kept the post as the new u.s. congress was officially sworn in on sunday. pelosi and the democrats have a slim margin of control after republicans gained seats. she said her most urgent prurty is to defeat the coronavirus pandemic. >> we accept a responsibility as daunting and demanding as any previous generation of leadership has ever faced. we begin this new congress during a time of extraordinary difficulty. each of our communities has been drastically, drastically affected by the pandemic and it's economic crisis. 350,000 tragic deaths. we sadly carry them in our hearts. >> so, this new congress is now the most diverse in history. there are a record number of women, black and latino members

as well as lawmakers who identify as lgbtq. so, we have more on that stunning trump call coming up in just a few minute's time. also ahead though here on cnn, u.s. vaccination efforts are falling far, far behind targets. what experts say need to be done. that's next too.

the u.s. is racing to get ahead of coronavirus pandemic in the halls of overburdened hospitals. and in a push to vaccinate the country. it's not having much success on either front. the number of u.s. covid patients hit a new record high on sunday and covid tracking report reports more than 125,000 people are in hospital with the virus. this as the pace of vaccinations really lags behind. only about 4 million doses have been administered across the country. >> 20 million vaccines as we had been promised would be made to the american people to be imnieds, having been able the

available. 17.5 million sbrn shipped. >> but only a third have been used. that's where the rubber meets the road. >> we need to improve. >> the real issue is getting it into people's arms. we now have around 4 million, which is obviously below where we want to be. if you look at the last 72 hours, there's 1.5 million administered into people's arms, which is average of about 500,000 a day, which is better than the proportion tells you. what ooi'm saying right now is we're not where we want to be. we've got to do better. but two, let's see if we can pick up momentum that was slowed down by the holiday season. >> some experts say they expect progress later this month. >> i've been talking to states. they're making good b progress. again, it would have been helpful to do all of this

several months ago. and i do think it's very, very clear at this point that the biden team has signalled that they really do want to be partners with the states and help states make progress. so, i expect a little bit of progress in the next couple of weeks and a lot more progress once a biden team is in-house. >> but that positive news will come too late for many in california. the state is struggling to get any sense of control over this virus. i want you to tack a look at this very steep curve showing new cases in california. in the state's largest city it's even more alarming. >> we're seeing a person every six seconds contract covid-19 here in los angeles county, the nation's largest county, 10 million people. my message to everybody is this is not only going to come for somebody that you love. this is going to possibly come for you. so, everything we do is either life saving or life taking at this point. >> now, these aren't just numbers. there are more than 26,000 dead

in california to date. each one represents a person gone and a family mourning. here's paul vercammen with one woman's message. >> reporter: just no easing up of the desperate covid-19 situation in california. more than 45,000 new cases, more than 20,000 people in the hospital, 181 new deaths. president trump tweeted that the cases are being exaggerated, calling covid-19 fake news. that did not sit well with rosa serta. she was a cemetery mourning the loss of her father and her uncle due to covid-19. >> how could it be fake news? it took my dad. it took my uncle. it has taken so many lives. i don't think it could be fake. it's horrible. it's an insult to me. it's an insult to every family because there's absolutely no way for somebody to say that it was fake because my dad is not fake dead. my dad is not going to resurrect

from here and say oh, just kidding, it was fake. ha, ha, ha, it's funny. it isn't. it is not fake. >> rosa's father would have turned 73 new year's day and his brother, a year older, would have turned 74. rosa likes to point out they were hardworking. they became u.s. citizens. instead of birthday cake, funeral flowers. reporting from los angeles, i'm paul vercammen. >> thank paul. thanks for that. coming up, threatening, pleading, repeating conspiracy theories. more details on how the u.s. president donald trump asked georgia state officials to change the election ruts in his favor, next. see every delivery...

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our top story, a recorded telephone call shows president donald trump resorting to desperate measures to try to overturn joe biden's victory here in georgia. in saturday's call, mr. trump tried to push georgia's secretary of state into changing the state's election results. the president also tried to highlight debunked claims of election fraud. >> i won this election by hundreds of thousands of votes. there's no way i lost georgia. there's no way. we won by hundreds of thousands of votes. i'm just going by small numbers. when you add them up, they're many times 11,000. but i won that state by hundred of thousands of votes. do you think it's possible they shredded ballots in fulton county because that's what the rumor is and also that dominion took out machines, that dmon omn is really moving fast to get rid

of their machinery. do you know anything about that? because that's illegal. >> this is ryan germany. no, dominion has not moved machinery out of fulton county -- >> but have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts? >> no. >> are you sure, ryan? >> i'm sure. i'm sure, mr. president. >> what about -- what about the -- what about the ballots, the shredding of the ballots? have they been shredding ballots? >> no, the only investigation that we have into that, they have not been shredding any ballots. there was an issue in cobb county where they were doing normal office shredding, getting rid of old stuff, and we investigated that. but this is stuff from past elections. >> perfect. it doesn't pass the smell test though because we hear they're shredding thousands and thousands of ballots. and now what they're saying, oh,

we're just cleaning up the office. yeah. i don't think so. >> mr. president, the problem you have with social media, they can -- people can say -- >> no, this isn't social media. this is trump immediate yachlt it's not social media. i don't care about social media. i couldn't care less. social media is big tech. big tech is on your side, you know? i don't even know why you have a side because you should want to have an accurate election, and you're a republican. >> we believe that we do have an accurate election. >> no, you don't. no, you don't. you don't have -- you don't have -- not even close. you've got -- you're off by hundreds of thousands of votes. >> there is no evidence of widespread election fraud here in georgia or anywhere else, but mr. trump isn't giving up his effort to look for it. during his phone call, he alleged that mr. biden received an unusual amount of military support in georgia's election

which he considers a red flag. >> do you know about the military ballots that we have confirmed now? do you know about the military ballots that came in that were 100% for biden? do you know about that? >> i don't know about that. i do know that we have -- when military ballots come in, it's not just military. it's also military and overseas citizens. the military part of that does generally go republican. the overseas citizen part of it generally goes very democrat -- >> no, but this was -- >> and there was a mix of them. >> that's okay. but i got 78% in the military. these ballots were all for -- they didn't tell me overseas. i get votes overseas too, ryan, in all fairness. no, they came in. a large batch came in and it was, quote, 100% for biden. and that is criminal, you know? that's criminal, okay? that's another criminal. that's another of the many

criminal events. many criminal events here. i don't know. look, brad, i got to get -- i have to find 12,000 votes and i have them times a lot. and therefore i won the state. that's before we go to the next step, which is in the process of right now, you know? and i watched you this morning and you said, well, there was no criminality. but i mean, all of this stuff is very dangerous stuff when you talk about no criminality. i think it's very dangerous for you to say that. >> officials in raffensperger's office legally recorded that call. it was legal. the white house declined to comment to cnn about the president's remarks. now, lawmakers and government figures across the political spectrum are criticizing the president for that call. the republican representative from illinois slammed mr. trump

in strong terms. take a listen to this. >> you see threats made, threatening in essence a crime to the secretary of state. you see the repeating of conspiracy theories. its disgusting and quite honestly it's going to be interesting. you know, all of these members of congress have come out and said they're going to object to the election. i don't know how you can do that with a clear conscious. beyond the pail is probably not even the way to describe it. >> georgia's republican governor, brian kemp, who has been a frequent target of the president's attacks said the call was a distraction. the senate's second ranking democrat had this to say. his disgraceful efforts to intimidate an elected official into deliberately changing and misrepresenting the legally con frmed vote totals in his state strikes at the heart of our democracy and merits nothing less than a criminal investigation. and senate minority leader chuck

schumer called on his republican colleagues in a tweet that said, quote, you want to investigate election fraud? start with this. former u.s. attorney preet bharara expressed concern about the legal implications of the president's statements. >> if you engage in some effort to solicit and procure election fraud and knowingly do that, that's a state crime and state crimes are not subject to presidential pardon, even if it's possible to pardon himself, which i don't believe it is. the question is what did the president intend. a lot of people like to jump to the conclusion, saying he doesn't know what he's talking about. he actually believes the lies. there's an argument, you guess, somewhat perversely in and subversively that his lawyers could make that he does believe this fraud happened. so, by making these requests he's not doing anything knowingly or willfully or

intentionally. i tend not to buy that because the president is the leader of the country. he's smart enough to get elected. he's smart enough to try to figure out ways to undo the election. the fact he is specific about the votes he needs, the number of votes he needs. it's not about fraud. it's not about integrity of the system. it's about getting the bear minimum number of votes in georgia to switch to him. >> meantime all ten living defense u.s. secretaries are calling on president trump and his followers to accept the defeat. they emphasized the importance of smooth transition of power. we'll continue to monitor that. of course you're watching cnn. still to come, uk is rolling out its recently approved oxford astrazeneca vaccine. we'll have a live report.

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some good news here. you are seeing the first person in the uk, an 82-year-old man receive the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. it happened just a few minutes ago. this puts another weapon in the arsenal of health care workers facing a serious spike of cases. so, what we're seeing now is the astrazeneca oxford university vaccine online and these great pictures of people getting shots. where are you now and what are you hearing from folks on the ground? >> so, i'm outside royal free hospital in london, which should start now giving vaccinations now that the first dose has been given in oxford to brian pinkard, 82 years old, very excited to get the vaccination because it now allows him to

celebrate his wedding anniversary with his wife shirley later this year. he was given a cup of tea and monitored by his nurse. this one comes with a lot of national pride because this vaccine of course was invented, created right here in the uk by oxford university. there's a lot of advantages about this vaccine as well. it's cheap. but most critically it doesn't need to be stored at extra cold temperatures, at subzero temperatures. a normal refrigerator will do. it will be easier to disseminate and get into people's arms, logistically much simpler for authorities to go into rural communities. but there have been some c controversy. the health secretary was on air a short time ago calling this a pivotal moment, a moment in which they're turning the chapter on handling the pandemic. i'll give you one example that's

divided the medical community. now here in the uk when you get the first dose of the vaccine you won't get the second dose until up to three months later. of course study shows you should get it 21 to 28 days later depending on the vaccine. why do this? why face this criticism of being the wild west of vaks, as some people have called the uk. authorities are facing a terrible rise in cases, record number of infection rates across the uk. you are looking at more patients in hospital with coronavirus than any point before, essentially hospitals like the one behind me are ringing the alarm. they're saying the health care system is on the brink. the oxford vaccine could allow the country to vaccinate twice as many people. >> thanks for that update there. so, i want to discuss this further with associate professor of molecular biology.

sorry i doesn't get that one out very well. good to see you again. it certainly is a big day. it's morning there, uk green lighting this new vaccine, the oxford university astrazeneca one. how significant is this for you? >> it's really important because this new vaccine is an easier to transport vaccine, easier to ship. it can be made available locally and internationally and it can be transferred using just plain storage, refrigeration as opposed to ultra deep freezing. that's good news for everyone involved. >> let's talk about the new variant that continues to savage populations in the uk and around the world, also here in the u.s. why is this one so infectious? do people shed for virus?

does the virus survive more on the air or on surfaces? those are the questions people are asking. are you getting any answers? >> so, the virus itself with mutations is not going to affect physics. so, the way it transmits, its survival is not expected to be affected. what is expected to be affected is how sticky it is when it comes to binding to the bits of our organism that allow it to enter cells. and in fact there seems to be evidence this is happening. there's also evidence to suggest that about four fold more virus to 16 fold more virus produced per person, which means effectively you have a larger amount of virus shed by people. if you combine that with the fact that over the period the people were perhaps not listening to the rules as much, they were not staying socially distant as much.

that's certainly been my experience looking around. this is a situation where frankly it's inevitable. we need to go back to basics here. we need to really hunker down with regards to keeping those two-plus meters of distance, even with face coverings now that the virus is becoming more able to infect. and we need to wash your hands, not touch our face and proceed with the basics which is basically ventilating rooms as much as possible to make sure any airborne virus is removed to the external environment as fast as possible. but it's not savaging populations. i need to make clear that this virus is not deadlier or more likely to send you to hospital. you're just more likely to catch it. that's the difference. so, your personal risk from this disease hasn't changed. your personal risk of catching this disease has changed. that's all. >> so, with that in mind, at the moment we're seeing these

infections are massively, massively outpacing the rates of vaccinations. when does that change? >> it changes frankly when we get another lockdown into place. we're at tier 4 right now. as much as i appreciate the ideological convictions of the government right now i hope they're listening in right now. we need to put the country to where we were in march and implement a full guard to prevent the transmission. the hospitals are being overwhelmed. yes, we've got all these beds in these nightingale hospitals but we don't have a staff because the staff have been infected and they've been taken out of work or they're basically worn out after a year's worth of overworking. so, we can't just leave society to deal with it. we just don't have that capacity. we need to do something about i. we need to make appropriate

arrangements for those people that cannot look after themselves financially or otherwise so they're not left behind. nobody needs to be left behind but we need to do this together. >> thank you very much for bringing us your expertise and your perspective on the ground in the uk. good luck. have a good week. thank you. >> thank you. so, health care workers across the u.s. are treating more covid patients now, same as in england, than at any other point during the pandemic. and they too are exhausted. i'll talk to a frontline nurse. you'll want to stick around and listen to this. finish quantum with activeblu technology, cleans without pre-rinsing. switch to finish and skip the rinse to save water.

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so, the coronavirus pandemic is pushing the health care system in many states to the brink. on sunday the u.s. reported a record high number of hospitalizations and cases have skyrocketed since the holidays. and the impact is stul certainly unfolding. now, california is certainly is seeing the worst of it as well. more than 45,000 new cases of the virus were reported there just on sunday. making matters worse, the vaccine rollout is now going much, much slower than expected, just slightly more than 4 million doses have been administered nationwide so far. i want to talk now with kelsie,

an icu nurse. lovely to see you thanks for being on the show. i would like to read out that tweet that you wrote. you said you were taking a covid patient off a ventilator and then allowing them to pass away. and you say, we pull up the ipad and the family appears, 30 plus people had gathered together, no masks squished together in one screen. if they didn't get the consequences of this covid, you write, no one will. talk us through that moment. >> it's hard to kind of understand who they love so much, who clearly they want to be with, and still take the risks that increase your likelihood of catching covid or sharing it among more of your

lovered ones. we have these end of life conversations, these ipad end of life situations with patients not infrequently and often times it's many different screens from many different places. this is the first time i had seen so many different people all together in one room with no maxxs on. >> the reaction to your tweet, you got death threats. >> there were a number of people said cruel things, said they were going to meet me in the parking garage of the hospital, that, you know, that i was being cruel and heartless and it's not my job to shame anyone. and i didn't feel like that tweet conveyed shame. it more conveyed sadness that people keep saying if more people would see what we see it would change their behavior. it made see they do see what see and there is still not adherence to mask wearing and not keeping social distance. >> how many people have you had

to help die or watch die or help say good-bye to loved ones in the past few months? >> many, 20 plus i would say. >> and how difficult has that been? >> uts extremely difficult and uts difficult for many reasons but especially because there wasn't family with them. i've been a nurse for 13 years and have seen many patients and there's always family and always loved ones there to talk to us about them and who they were. we don't get that this time. they don't see anyone they love except through a screen and often they're too sick to even be conscious to see the screen. so, it's very heartbreaking. >> are you angry? are you tired? why are you emotionally? >> well, i'm both. it's hard to keep coming to work and doing this extremely exhausting work and continuing to love and care and support

these patients. we will do it. it matters the most to us. i love my job. but it's hard to keep do it when it feels like we're going to be doing it forever. there is no end in sight to this high intense level of care and the sadness and loss that we're seeing. nothing is changing that makes it feel like it's going to end soon if people don't get the vaccine and wear pks hads and keep distance. >> with that in mind you're going to the world and across america at the moment. what's your message? >> we're tired and we want to help this to end and the best way to do that is to get vaccinated when you're able to and to please wear a mask. please keep distance. find a bubble or a pod of people that you trust who keeps you just as safe as you keep them and don't go out in public to large places without a mask on. try to stay home. order it as much as you can. hunker down just a little bit longer and hopefully we can get this vaccine rolled out and we can start to try to find a new normal by the end of the year.

>> thank you for your work. god bless. >> thank you. well, thank you for watching cnn. i'm robyn curnow. i'll be right back with more news after this quick break. new year's resolutions come and go.

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hi, welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you're watching cnn. i'm robyn curnow. just ahead. you heard donald trump's claims about the election being stolen but never like this. hear the jaw-dropping phone call the u.s. president made to officials here in georgia and what he was seeking. we'll also look at the impact on georgia's crucial elections, that will decide wh