arthel: as the u.s. hits a critical noint the pandemic with coronavirus killing nearly 300,000 americans, there is hope on the horizon. the first trucks carrying pfizer's vaccine to distribution centers across the country pulled out of a michigan manufacturing facility early this morning. hello, everyone. welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hi, arthel. thank you for joining us. i'm eric shawn. we have been waiting for this day to finally come. fed ex and ups began shipping more than half a million doses by airplane and guarded trucks to distribution sites nationwide. the first shots we're told could come starting tomorrow as the

largest vaccination program in american history kicks off. hoping to stop the outbreak that has sickened nearly 16 million people here in the u.s. and so far cost almost 300,000 lives. president trump praising pfizer's vaccine yesterday when he attended the army, navy game at west point. >> this has been a great, really medical -- they call it a medical miracle. and it's going to have a tremendous impact. 95% effective. we have moderna coming out next week, very soon. we have johnson & johnson, a one shot vaccine coming out. all great companies. eric: and we have live team fox coverage for you. charles watson is near the centers for disease control headquarters in atlanta. mark meredith standing by on the north lawn of the white house with the latest from the president there. let's begin with mike tobin, he is in portage, michigan, where those vaccine shipments are rolling out. hey, mike. >> reporter: eric, the shipping at this facility is now

completed for the day but as you mentioned, 8:30 of this morning the first of the trucks pulled out in the most ambitious immunization in u.s. history got underway. the trucks we saw pull out were both from fed ex and ups. they left at the same time. fed ex serving the west, ups delivering to the east. workers at the pfizer facility applauded as the first trucks were loaded, 189 boxes in the first shipment, each box holds 975 vials, each vial is five doses of the vaccine. what we saw leave today was a little more than 920,000 doses. they're headed to all 50 states with a priority for the first shots being healthcare workers and then at-risk populations like people in nursing homes. tomorrow, 400 boxes are scheduled so that's 1 point of 9 million doses. the scientific head of operation warp speed says a vaccine could reach 70% of the population by may and achieve what they call herd immunity but people have to cooperate. >> it is, however, critical that most of the american people

decide and accept to take the vaccine. we are very concerned by the hesitancy that we see, the level of hesitancy that we see. >> reporter: needles could start going into arms as early as monday. on thursday, the moderna vaccine comes up for review with the potential of 20 million doses reaching the public. eric. eric: calvary is p coming. mike, thanks. arthel. arthel: a cdc advisory panel endorsing pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for americans 16 and older. it is now up to the cdc director to give the final go gash-ahead -- go-ahead. this comes as the u.s. suffered the worst week for covid deaths. as of today, there have been more than 16 million confirmed coronavirus cases and the virus has killed nearly 300,000 americans. charles watson is live in atlanta with more.

charles. >> reporter: hi, arthel. there is one final hurdle before pfizer's vaccine can officially be administered to millions of americans. the cdc is now on to considering whether it should approve its advisory committee on immunization practices, vote to recommend the pfizer vaccine for people ages 16 and older. this follows of course the fda's decision on friday to grant emergency use authorization to pfizer after a recommendation from its own independent advisory panel. >> we know a lot about this vaccine. it's been extensively tested in large populations. it does require two doses. it provides stunning protection, 95%. that's more than we anticipate ad. and the studies show that it's safe. >> reporter: at an emergency meeting on friday, members of the cdc's advisory panel grilled pfizer representatives about

possible adverse reactions from taking the vaccine after data showed about 9% of trial participants experienced side effects. >> vaccine meaning that people can have a local site reaction, like pain or swelling, low grade fever, body aches related to the vaccine within a day or two of vaccination. >> reporter: and the second vaccine to be on the way to be pretty quickly, moderna is up for its emergency use authorization hearing, could be sometime this week. arthel: thanks, charles. eric. eric: arthel, president trump is calling the vaccine a medical miracle as those first shipments begin rolling out across the country. meanwhile, the president told brian kilmeade that the legal challenges to the election he said are not yet over of. mark meredith has the very latest. let's start with what the president is saying about the vaccine today. >> reporter: eric, good afternoon. president trump says he is thrilled to see the vaccine

rollout underway. last week he signed an executive order ensuring that the u.s. stockpile is prioritized for u.s. citizens and while the administration admits it will still be a few months before all americans will have access to the vaccine, they do believe this will be a game changer in battling the pandemic. >> i pushed the fda and companies and everybody else involved like nobody's ever been pushed before and now you have it rolling out and frankly they could have done it last week. they could have done it a week sooner. this has been a medical -- they call it a medical miracle and it's going to have a tremendous impact. 95% effective. >> reporter: the president says he is confident that americans will have enough vaccine to go around especially as more vaccines doses are produced in the weeks ahead. this is his coming back from the army, navy football game. the united states government purchased doses of moderna's vaccine. the fda is set to review

moderna's drug thursday. today, the president is of out at his virginia golf club, nothing on the official schedule. he continues to tweet a lot about the election as he insists more legal challenges are coming and top congressional republicans say they support these challenges but also know the win he dough for all of this is getting small -- window for all of this is getting smaller by the day. >> if you want to restore trust by millions of people who are frustrated and angry about what happened, that's why you've got to have this whole system play out of. there will be a president sworn in on january 20th. but let's let the legal process play itself out. >> reporter: tomorrow, the electoral college is set to meet to cast its votes. fox news asked president trump yesterday if he plans to attend the inauguration for joe biden in january. he said he did not want to talk about it. eric, we'll let you know if the president has anything else to say later on today. eric. eric: mark, thanks so much at the white house. arthel. arthel: eric, hospitals are preparing for the first round of pfizer's covid-19 vaccine as shipments of the critical doses

are now underway for distribution across the country. a rival is expected to start tomorrow. -- arrival is expected to start tomorrow. first batch will go to hell care workers and -- healthcare workers and nursing home residents. dr. adalja joins us now. thank you so much for joining us. i want to ask you as these first doses ship out remark, what areu celebrating and what are you concerned about or focused on. >> i'm celebrating the victory of science, that we were able to develop a vaccine in record time, a safe and a effective vaccine using new technologies. i think this shows how far we've come with vaccine development and i'm looking forward to getting my first dose of the vaccine next week. what i'm worried about is the fact that this isn't going to have an immediate impact on what we're seeing in hospitals right now. hospitals on a day-to-day basis are worrying about capacity. i worked overnight in a hospital. we have icu patients with covid-19, more and more cases coming in. there doesn't seem to be an end

in sight. until we get the herd immunity threshold, we're going to see spread. people can't let up. we cannot succumb to pandemic fatigue and allow our hospitals to go into crisis in the interim before people get vaccinated. arthel: is this an opportunity for you to call on congress to get something done, to get more funding to local states and cities, who are depending on funds and who are treating all of these sick americans and trying to muddle through that emergency situation you just laid out for us? >> it definitely is time for us to get serious about hospital preparedness and to make sure that hospitals have adequate resources, staffing, personal protective equipment and also that our of local and state health departments are adequately resourced. they are not a group of entities that are pry or of advertised by any government and -- prioritized by any government and they go through cyclical panic and neglect kind of funding. when there's an emergency they get funding then all that goes away. many health departments don't have resources to contact tracing and case investigation

and that's part of the reason why we have so much spread. public health and praye prepares is a key priority. arthel: a poll taken last week shows 61% of americans will take the vaccine, approved by the government and 33% said no. so in order to achieve herd immunity, at least 70% of americans must get vaccinated. how do you get the message out to assure those who are skeptical about safety or long-term side effects or other things that will make them reluctant to take the shot and who will be the messenger. >> health claire providers and members of the government need to be transparent about the vaccine and how the safety data went and really just be proactive about it. not allow the agenda to be set by the anti-vaccine movement or vaccine hesitant people. we don't need to be responding to every arbitrary claim that there's a microchip in the

vaccine. we need to talk about the value of the vaccine and we have to lead by example. we need to ourselves get vaccinated and be proud of the fact that we're getting s vaccinated and celebrate vaccines as a triumph. they will eventually conquer covid-19. arthel: meanwhile, can we as a people, the public, can we let our guard down new the vaccine is here? it's going to start at least tomorrow. >> we cannot let our guard down. as i said earlier, this vaccine is not going to have immediate impact on the community spread of the virus. we are basically in an out-of-control situation in basically all 50 states and the vaccine will first go to healthcare workers, nursing home residents. we might see some impact on hospital capacity as nursing home residents represent a lot of people who get hospitalized. we're going to have community spread ongoing for several months and we're going to have to be vigilant with masks. arthel: what should i do? >> you still need to continue to wear a mask. your need to do all that common sense, all the common sense precautions, hand washing, trying to stay away from crowded

places, being vigilant so you don't become an unwitting link in the chain of transmission that lands on a vulnerable population. we have to not let up what we're doing even with the vaccine starting to roll out. arthel: and roll out indeed. you're looking at live shots of louisville, kentucky, a landing strip where they're waiting for a batch of vaccines to land there in kentucky so it is happening. i want to ask you as we are all hopeful and you're hopeful as a scientists and you're saying that you're going to be getting the vaccine and getting vaccinated yourself, i believe you said this week, what everyone wants to know -- we understand there's going to be -- this is going to happen in stages. i ask you, i want to know what everybody else does, which is when can we get back to normal and will that no normal come in stages. >> the normal will come in stages. you're seeing a lot of states put restrictions in place because they're worried about hospital capacity. once we start to get nursing

home residents vaccinated, vulnerable populations vaccinated you'll see the pressure lift off hospitals. that will start to get us back to maybe the way we were in the summer in parts of the country. then as more and more of the general population gets vaccinated you'll start to see some guidance on masks and capacity limitations start to lift. it's going to take some time to go back to what it was in 2017. -- 2019. i think you're looking at the summer of 2021 before you're at some semblance of normalcy. i think once the nursing home populations are vaccinated, i do think you're going to see a sigh of relief from hospitals because that's really what we're contending with, a significant number of our patients. arthel: thank you so much for laying everything out for us today here, dr. amesh adahlia. we look forward to speaking with you again as we monitor vaccinations hopefully. we've got to get them in the arms, right, doc.

thank you. eric: president-elect joe biden's son hunter under scrutiny this week after the transition office revealed there's a federal investigation underway into his taxes. yesterday fox news learned that in 2017 hunter requested that his father, uncle and stepmother receive keys to his office space. jackie heinrich covering the biden transition, she is in wilmington, delaware, hi, jacqui. >> reporter: hi, eric. the president-elect's critics are looking at that e-mail and saying it undercuts joe biden's long-standing claim that he had no knowledge of his son's business affairs. >> we are finding more and more of how involved not only hunter biden was, but also james as well as joe biden and he has not been truthful with the american public and it's about time the press starts asking questions. as i said before, this is not going away. >> reporter: the e-mail is from

2017, shows hunter requesting access for joe and jill biden, his uncle jim biden and an emissary of a chinese energy company's chairman who hunter was doing business with. hunter asked to show the name of the chinese business venture and also the biden foundation. the house of sweden confirmed that hunter's business leased a space there that year but wouldn't confirm that keys were made for other members of the chinese family or the chinese business associate. a source says the biden foundation never used the office space, saying their two offices were located elsewhere. the biden campaign previously cited the president-elect's tax returns saying it shows no involvement with chinese investments and touted the findings of an inquiry that said joe biden did not manipulate u.s. foreign policy to benefit his son. hunter biden's business deals have faced scrutiny. a report shows a deal resulted in millions of dollars in

questionable transactions and hunter's tax you affairs are the subject of a federal probe sparked by suspicious activity reports. sources tell us at one point there was a money laundering probe involving hunter where investigators looked at the laptop that surfaced in delaware but the new york times reported that part of the investigation did not gain traction and fizzled and investigators then looked into other tax related questions. the ap reported yesterday that this subpoena requested documents related to hunter's deals with two dozen entities i including burisma and a also china. we are looking for information on what the central allegation, the central question of the probe really is. eric. eric: jacqui in wilmington, delaware. thank you. arthel: despite a string of legal defeats, president trump says his fight to overturn the results of the election, which joe biden won, is not over. part one of brian kilmeade's exclusive interview with the president is up next.

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arthel: president trump spoke exclusively with brian kilmeade at this year's army, navy game, happening yesterday. the president talked football, military funding, and his challenges to try to overturn

the election. here's part one of that interview. >> so mr. president, the first sitting president to attend the army navy game, teddy roosevelt, 1901. there's only been two other presidents that have shown up for two army navy games, truman and bush. you're the third. why are you here? >> well, i love football but i love these two teams and they're special and they've been to the white house and we've given them awards because it's always the commander in chief award. one of them's going to get it. and i've had a lot of fun and the coaches are terrific people. >> with everything you've accomplished, you took over a military that was cut by 25%. that only had three brigades ready to fight, was out of bullets. what have you done in the four years since you've -- to change that. >> entirely rebuilt the military like never before. no missiles, rockets, ships, plane, we have the f-35s coming in by the hundreds as you know. when i took over, we had a

depleted military, we had no ammunition. i will never forget an overrated general coming to see me and say we have no ammunition. that was my first two days in office. i said no president should ever have to hear that. no president should ever be spied on. we have a totally rebuilt and our nuclear is now tippy top. hope to god you never have to use it. >> today we found out of, late last night, that the supreme court would not hear the texas case. did not have standing according to them. i judge by your tweets you're very disappointed in that. is it over? >> no, it's not over. we keep going. and we're going to continue to go forward many we have numerous local cases. we're in some of the states that got rigged and robbed from us. we won every one of them. we won pennsylvania. we won michigan. we won georgia by a lot. we have a governor, republican governor, that's worse than a democrat. he's terrible. and he's hurting kelly and david

very badly, the senators that are terrific people. but and wisconsin as you know, very a case going on as we speak. it's actually going on right now. >> you have individual states right now. >> we're doing individual states. >> on the 14th they're going to certify. what does that do for your fight. >> we're going to speed it up as much as we can. you can only go so fast. we count them, as you know, fraudulent, dropping ballots, doing so many things you can't even believe it. dead people voting. all far greater than the number of votes we need. the election was over at 10:00 in the evening. i had won. it was 97, 98%, all of the bookies all over the world were saying the election's over, they wouldn't take bets on it and then all of a sudden around 11:00, ballots start getting dropped. you ever see the graph where you go like this and then it goes up to the sky? tens of thousands of ballots were being illegally dropped. the machines are the worst. dominion. dominion. nobody knows who owns it. these machines are controlling our of country.

so it was a rigged election. it was really a sham and a shame. >> when you look at this fight, you have 77% of trump supporters who believe you won the election according to a fox poll. >> actually much higher numbers than that. >> there's a rally right now in washington for that. do you worry about the company being dividessed f it goes through inauguration and you still feel that way and they feel that way. >> i worry about the company having an illegitimate election. a president who lost and lost badly. you look at georgia, we won georgia big, we won pennsylvania big. we won wisconsin big. we won it big. we won all of these stwaits. >> do you think your legal team has proven that. >> we never get a chance to prove it. a judge will say you don't have standing. how about me. texas and all these states, 18 or 19 all together, they come in. think how nice that is where they actually come in and they say we want to support you, sir, because you're important to this country. we want to support you. they go in and they say the states don't have standing and i

don't have -- i'm president of the united states. i got 75 million votes. the biggest number of votes in the history of our country, ever gotten by a sitting president. i went from 63 million to 75 million, a 12 million vote difference. that's the biggest margin in history. they say if i got 67, the smartest people in the business, if i got 67 million votes i couldn't lose. i got 75 million and they say i lost. i didn't lose. the election was rigged. >> by who? >> by the democrats and actually interesting, by the democrats but by local democrats. meaning state democrats. they outsmarted state republicans. you know what i do? i do two things. i run a country and we cut taxes and we did all of the things, regulations, space force, all of the things, the va was taken care of. 91% approval. all of the things i did. i ran a country and we ran it great. we've done more than any other president. then i have to campaign. we had the greatest campaign in history. we had the biggest crowds

anyone's ever had. i did 56 rallies where the number of people were incredible. okay. incredible. record-setting. and then i go home. and i watch the television to see how we're doing. and by 10:30 in the evening it was over, we won. i got calls from everybody. saying -- pros, people you know very well, saying congratulations. i say let's not go so fast. i don't trust these machines. a lot of bad things happen with these people. and in essentially five or six states, the local people who run it rigged the election. and a tens of thousands -- remember, they stopped the counting in the evening. do you remember georgia when they said we had a big flood. we had a pipeline break, a major water pipeline break. it turned out to be a false thing. and everybody, brian, everybody ran out, they all ran out and where's the pipeline. guess what. there was no pipeline. that was the people where they took all of those ballots, all of those biden ballots under the table with the black dress and

they took them and started shoving them into machines. what happened to this country is we were like a third world country and i do worry about the fact, you know, you asked the question, illegitimate president. that's what i worry about. arthel: we will air part two of brian kilmeade's exclusive conversation with president trump next hour where they discuss the covid-19 vaccine rollout and the hunter biden investigation. we're back after this break.

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arthel: the first covid-19 vaccine shipments are on their way to distribution sites across the country. it is a pivotal moment in the fight against the pandemic that has killed nearly 300,000 people in the u.s. the number of coronavirus cases reported here in the u.s. reached more than 16 million after the country added 1 mull i don't know cases in just four --

1 million cases in just four days, hospitalizations also hitting a record high for the seventh day in a row. heart-breaking news for fans of new orleans stage and screen actor carol putin. she has died from complications from covid-19. she was best known for her roles in the 1989 movie steele magnolias and the hit tv series, queen sugar. she was 76. eric: president-elect joe biden reportedly narrowing his search for an attorney general with five names set to be on his short list. among them, former obama deputy attorney general, sally yates and alabama democratic senator doug jones, those two reported to be the frontrunners. whoever he does pick, they'll have to figure out how to deal with the investigations into the president-elect's son, hunter biden, as well as other politically sensitive cases.

for more on this is brad blakeman, a former deputy assistant to president george w. bush and fox news contributor. brad, it's a delicate balancing act. you've been there. what are the challenges for a biden attorney general, no matter who is chosen? >> well, the first challenge, eric, is getting through the senate confirmation process. that could be a real battle. depending on who they are. let's take doug jones. doug jones of course is known by the senate. he was not reelected. but he has some trouble in his own flanks of the democratic party, specifically with the naacp. then you have sally yates who has also has a political challenge because of her actions back with donald trump and the travel ban. so the first hurdle is getting through the senate. the second hurdle is trying to cobble together a justice department, a justice department that finds itself in the midst of a criminal investigation of what will then be the president's son.

now, while the president's son is a target of a criminal investigation, and we know that so far today president-elect biden is not a subject but he could be a witness and he could be a material witness and he would have to be deposed as a witness or possibly even testify. so i think there's a lot of things and challenges that are associated with whoever the ag is and of course the question is going to be, is it going to be a political person with a political pedigree or somebody like judge merrick garland who has more of a judicial background and is more apolitical. eric: they talk about yates and the senator joans being the frontrunners in this. let's take a look at some of the candidates. sally yates fired by the president for not being willing to carry out the travel ban to some of those muslim countries. jones has a history, he pros cued birmingham -- prosecuted bombers in 1963.

andrew cuomo is on the list. merrick garland would be ironic, maybe a slap back at mitch mcconnell. duvall patrick, former governor of massachusetts. the ap is saying biden is facing an attorney on attorney general that will come under intense scrutiny from black leaders who want someone with a background in civil rights advocacy. can an attorney general working, can they really be independent? >> they can be as independent as they believe they can be. having said that, they have to play ball with the administration. they are part of the administration. it's not like the fbi director who has a fixed term. he is more independent than an ag is. but we all know a president can fire even the fbi director. it's happened. so i think the ag especially in this political climate is going to be walking a a tight rope, whoever it is, just because of

the problems within their own democratic flank and the division of the country. that's why i think it's probably in joe biden's interest to pick somebody less political because i can tell you right now if you pick doug jones or sally yates, it's going to be a political side show in the senate confirmation process. eric: and finally, remember that rubbin rukuc with loretta , had that airport tarmac meeting in the plane in phoenix with president bill clinton during the hillary clinton investigation. instead perhaps there should be a special counsel appointed to investigate hunter biden. instead of having an attorney general, doj do it. >> well, that would certainly take the heat off the ag. of course, the white house would want that because that means less control over the entity who

is investigating hunter biden and other things that are carryovers from even the obama administration that republicans will still want to look into. and eric, that brings up another good point and that is how likely is the senate to confirm these people. i happen to believe that the president has the right to the cabinet of his choosing within reason. but if the republicans control the senate, that's really the stop gap and it's important and that's why these two special elections in georgia are so important because they're going to be the defining moment as to how these confirmations proceed. eric: yeah, that could be the difference between a road black for some of sweeping them right in. brad blakeman, always good to see you. thank you for your insight. arthel. arthel: up next, republicans calling for a full investigation into congressman eric swalwell's interactions with an you alleged chinese spy, was he compromised and should it lead to his

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eric: house republican lawmakers calling on the ethics committee to investigate california democratic congressman eric swalwell and his apparent friendship with a suspected chinese spy who supported his campaign.

swalwell says he did cut tie was the woman five years ago but he's dodging questions it seems on the nature of their relationship. christina coleman is live in los angeles with the latest on this. hey, christina. >> reporter: hey a, eric. chinese espionage is a 401-k major concern which is why some republicans are fired up about this and calling for an open investigation into this matter. the spue suspected phi is identd as christine fong. she helped place at least one intern in his office. she is suspected of having a romantic relationship with at least two unnamed mayors from the midwest. axios reports that fong did not get classified information from government officials but that she did collect private unclassified info about them, things like their schedule, habits and social networks, all forms of political intelligence. at this point some republicans want swalwell kicked off the house intelligence committee over of worries he might have

had been compromised. >> eric swalwell should not be on the house intelligence committee and we need answers now that they for whatever reason are hiding. they're quick to go to the microphone and accuse others of being russian spies. turns out they were the ones associated with chinese spies. >> reporter: take a listen to michael flynn on sunday morning futures. he says counter intelligence should have been focused on swalwell. >> while the counter intelligence structure and system and leadership was focused on mike flynn and president trump, the counter intelligence effort they should have been focused on swalwell and i will tell you that if there's one smoking bush there, with swai swalwell, i guarantee there's others. >> reporter: as for house speaker nancy pelosi, she says she's not concerned about swalwell. swalwell cut ties with fong once u.s. intelligence officials

briefed him on their concerns in 2015. that's when fong left the u.s. arthel: for more on this we bring in tristan whiten. christina coleman laid out the he details in her report. what does this tell us? >> i think it confirms for us really how extensive chinese espionage and influence operations go. now, it's been said that no classified information was passed to this alleged spy but the question is, how much influence she had over people who make our policies. after all, eric swalwell has been a voice basically saying that russia is a greater threat than china. he said explicitly that donald trump is a russian agent when he knew as a member of the intelligence committee that that was not the case. he said things like russia is the greater threat than china.

it's very concerning. also, it just shows just the patience that the cha chinese he to work on someone who had a bright political future at a time when he was just a city council member in the hopes that he would eventually rise to power which he did. it sort of brings to mind the cambridge spies, if you look in the 1930s, in the u.k., the soviets looked at people who were promising and invested in them early, before they rose to prominence. arthel: the congressman broke off the interaction, he alerted the fbi. you say he should have had some knowledge of chinese espionage operations. how could he have known what the u.s. intelligence agents did not know as pertains to fong or did not inform him of? >> it's surprising how often honey pots as these operations are called were typically an attractive woman will approach someone with access to classified information or

someone in influence. it works. as a sort of mid level intelligence official, not particularly -- if you look at someone in the mid-level of a government career, you think they would be suspicious when a young, attractive foreigner expresses a romantic interest in -- arthel: come on, you can't do that. you can't paint every young attractive foreigner, female, with a spy brush. come on. as a woman, you can't do that. i can't let you say that. >> i'm saying this is a technique that the chinese use. it should be obvious. it's shocking how often it works on people with secret clearances and people in power and in this case it apparently did work. eric swalwell should have been suspicious. he was a prosecuting attorney in the east bay in san francisco bay area. that doesn't mean he worked on federal cases that involved counter intelligence but -- arthel: wait a minute. slow down, christian. i want to go you through a couple things you're saying. why should he have known? this woman clearly, people who

are chosen to do this, they're good. they're insidious and there it is, she's had a couple interactions with other officials in the country. so how is it that he should have known immediately what this person was up to? >> i don't know if he should have known immediately but he should have been somewhat suspicious when a foreign national from china takes interest in you, a person with access to information or influence over policy, especially if you're in the san francisco bay area. i mean, they had a consulate that was so full of spies we had to close it down. i'm not saying he should have known specifically but it probably warranted a little bit of scrutiny. to his credit, he did break it off once the fbi came to him and warned him but i think it just goes to show the length that the chinese are willing to go and have successfully gone in getting close to people in power. arthel: so i want to see where i want to go in like 30 seconds. so of do you think that there

should be some sort of investigation, further investigation that some of the republican lawmakers are calling for into -- and if there should be an investigation, should it be specifically into congressman swalwell or to find out how much information this woman, if any, she got out of him? >> yeah, i think it's important just to bring the light of day -- this is a member of congress. sis isn't someone tucked away on the cia. he's on the intelligence committee. i think it bears public scrutiny. if he broke up the relationship, i suppose that's fine. we need to look at this woman, she claimed to be a college student. i assume she was on a student visa. this is a problem where the chinese government brings people in the united states, chinese citizens, as owning their first allegiance to the chinese government. what would i think benefit the country coming out of this is if we get a better understanding of what chinese students on visas are doing and whether or not they are susceptible or willing

tools of espionage. arthel: i have to leave it there. thank you very much. >> thank you, arthel. arthel: take care. and we'll be right back. your cousin. from boston. it says "bad boy" in gaelic... i think. get outta here, debbie! high five. i brought sam. boston lager. we're all friends now.

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eric: well, small businesses under siege from the coronavirus.

in new york state, governor andrew cuomo will ban indoor dining again in new york city, in an effort to try and slow the surge in covid-19 cases there. alex hogan is live outside one restaurant in manhattan where they're expecting to shut down the inside tomorrow. hi, alex. >> reporter: hi, eric. that's right. so all of bars and restaurants will need to close down, that indoor dining, starting tomorrow. it's coming of course as a major blow to the industry but governor andrew cuomo has said that this will be a way to protect hospitals and the capacity there. >> if we see that we're in a glidepath towards overwhelming the hospitals, you have no choice but to close down the economy. you cannot overwhelm the hospital system. >> reporter: governor cuomo called for federal relief an says he will extend the commercial eviction moratorium. still, because of the cold weather, many business owners say they will not be able to

survive, simply with outdoor dining alone. >> we're moving into a period of history that's unprecedented. we don't know what it's going to look like 12 months from now. we've never had to deal with balance sheets that look like they do now, expenses are rising. covid and its end is uncertain. >> reporter: according to the state's data, restaurants and bars accounted for just 1.3% of cases across the state. meanwhile, 73% of recent covid infections can traced back to those household gatherings that we are seeing. so again, indoor dining will close tomorrow. of course, this is a major problem for a lot of these restaurants. mayor bill de blasio says that they can continue to use outdoor parking spaces for outdoor dining. as you can see behind me, a lot of these restaurants are turning to more creative outlets like building outdoor structures to try to entice more customers to visit their establishments.

eric. eric: a lot of those outdoor structures are great. new yorkers really like them a lot and hope they will stay after the pandemic is over. alex, thank you. and we'll be right back. a live bookkeeper is helping

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part 2 on brian one on one coming right up. that will do it for us. right now more news from washington, leland and gillian up next. ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] gillian: it is a day worth celebrating across america. pfizer's coronavirus making its way to states with first vaccine expected to arrive tomorrow morning. welcome to america he's news headquarters, i'm gillian turner. leland: nice to be with you. my father said the next good piece of news is we have a vaccine. there we go. dad, you were right. i'm leland vittert. first round will be delivered to 150 locations throughout the united states and pfizer is