again. thanks. thanks for joining us. i'm alicia acuna. eric shawn is next. >> eric: hello. i'm eric shawn in for bill hemmer. joe biden set to receive a national security briefing. what he can expect on his first day in office. this comes after the christmas day bombing in nashville. and a massive cyber attack by our nation by suspected russian hackers. the president-elect will speak after the briefing. we'll have that live. the house back in session today. we're waiting for folks on giving americans more covid relief money and overriding the president's veto of the defense bill. we're covering this from all the angles. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is on capitol hill. first, let's go to jacqui

heinrich reporting live on the transition. jacqui is in wilmington. hi, jacqui. >> good afternoon, eric. the president-elect gave short remarks ahead of his briefing he's receiving from his foreign policy and national security advisers. he touched on the importance of international alliances saying the world's problems can't be solved by one country and the trump administration's go it alone approach has jeopardized our national security. he emphasized that the biden administration will have a departure from the america first policy of the current white house. biden's designated secretaries of defense and state, his national security adviser and director of national intelligence are among those breaking down the challenges his administration is set to inherit as they put it. kamala harris is also participating. biden noted the team's work cage amid obstacles like protocols and delayed ascertainment and obstruction from the current leadership. officials would not comment on details ahead of the briefing.

we learned that topics will be less about solar wind packs and nashville bombing and the veto of the defense spending bill and more about assessing the foreign policy institutions. it's biden's first public event since christmas. it comes after president trump vetoed that defense bill, which is house is voting tonight in which to override. it also follows the president's signing of the coronavirus relief and government funding bill last night. we expected some mention of the bill today. we just learned that he will be covering that in another appearance tomorrow. he called it a down payment on more action needed in early 2021. we'll look to today's remarks and also those remarks on the funding and coronavirus relief tomorrow. eric? >> eric: we're on top of it, jacqui. thank you. as jacqui mentioned, the house is in session to vote on increased covid relief payments and overriding the president's veto of the i'll be. the last successful override, september 2016. that is after president obama

voted to let 9-11 familying sue saudi arabia. mike emanuel live from washington on that. hi, mike. >> national security republicans say they should have the votes to override the president's veto of a $740 billion defense policy bill. >> a great bill. this goes after china, russia. does a lot to shore up our cyber defenses which we've seen are vulnerable. to sustain the president's veto after he voted for this bill, i don't understand. >> lawmakers debate a veto override. the other issue the house votes on is $2,000 covid stimulus checks which president trump and top democrats support. >> this bill is not sufficient. it's emergency but not enough. one place it's not enough is relief to people. i am fighting, senate democrats are fighting for $2,000 per

person. donald trump talked about it. now he's got to act. >> house republicans argue if you're going to spend more, there should be cuts made, too. >> unfortunately we have a lot of debt junkies in washington d.c. on capitol hill, in the house and the senate. i would imagine that anything that spends more money, these folks will pass. that's just the nature of the beast here. >> if the house passes the stimulus measure, its fate in the united states senate led by mitch mcconnell is not clear. some supporters worry it could hit a dead end there. >> will the grim reaper, mitch mcconnell, allow his colleagues in the senate to vote their conscious, to vote their constituents' needs or are they going to stay with an idealogical absolutism that is singularly unhelpful. >> after authorizing about $2.3

trillion in government spending, there's no signs that senate leadership will want to spend more now. eric? >> eric: mike, thanks. joining us now on what we can expect, california democratic congressman, john garanmendes. congressman, welcome. let's start with the $2,000 checks. you think folks will get them? >> they certainly should. they certainly need it. all across this nation people are unemployed, hurting, doing half time jobs or no jobs at all. they need that money. it's not for the wealthy. this will be for individuals of $75,000 or less. so yes, we absolutely need to do that. this talk about the deficit hawks have returned. they were not there in 2017 when the republicans supported a 1.5 trillion tax cut, almost all of which, went to the super wealthy and big corporations.

>> needing this, to get the checks out and having them in the mail are two different things. what happens when it's doa in the senate will this boomerang on the republicans as you suggest? >> it's going to boomerang to a place called georgia. there's an election coming up in a few days. the folks in georgia will understand who was with them and who was not. >> well, mrs. loeffler and senator purdue can argue that the president was on their side when he goes down there for a rally next monday night. >> we're going to see how they vote. because this bill is going to pass out of the house of representatives today. there will be a strong majority, almost the entire democratic delegation will vote to increase from $600 to $2,000. support for individuals across this nation, that's what families need. we'll do that. we'll see what happens in the senate. >> eric: you mentioned the deficit concerns that the republicans did not have three

years ago. but there are those that are concerned that the deficit and the spending is ballooned, especially because of coronavirus. way out of proportion. there has to be some way to curb this. this is one way to do that. >> yeah. well, we ought to listen to jerome powell, the chairman of the federal reserve. he's been very, very strong for the last nine months saying over and over again, we need a very strong rescue of the american economy, a rescue that would stifle the virus, that would give us the kind of support that we need for testing, tracing and vaccinations and for the hospitals, local governments and small businesses and unemployment insurance. those are his words. he said we need more. certainly more than the $900 billion that is a pile of money, no doubt about it. also, it's for a limited period of time. it won't extend into the full time in to which it will take this nation to get this virus

under control, which will be summer, mid summer at the earliest. we need an extension. biden has been clear that the legislation, which trump thankfully finally signed yesterday is a down payment. it is not sufficient money to get through the age of covid. >> eric: you mentioned the president finally signing that. what do you think about the override of his veto of the defense spending bill? >> well, he seems to be more than willing to defund the military. i don't think that is anybody's interests, certainly not in our national security interests. i don't know why he did it. maybe he wanted to gain some momentary leverage to get something else. he came out with his tweet yesterday saying he was going to do a bunch of red lines, all of which were in his budgets that he asked congress to pass, which

we did. and he's gone to section 230 so he can sue google and facebook because they're saying bad things about him. or allowing people to say bad things about him. those are issues that will be taken up in the new congress. but to hold the defense authorization act and earlier on holding the support that americans need simply to survive the covid crisis as a hostage, that is just not good. >> eric: some have a lot more complaints against big tech than that, censorship of conservative ideas and others. we leave that for now. >> that's another day of discussion. >> eric: it is. thanks, congressman. thanks for joining us. for the political impact and a very pointed message to the president, tom bevin is here from real clear politics.

tom, what do you make of the president holding it out and slamming the bill and signing it in mar-a-largo last night? >> he was in a tough spot. the unemployment insurance had expired. while he obviously railed against this bill and wanted more, wanted bigger checks and wanted less, quite frankly in foreign aid, disbursements to other countries. because they tied the two bills together, he had no choice. he had to sign this, i think. because there was just no way of getting what he wanted. to separate the two, clean the one bill out, the government funding bill out with the foreign aid and revamp the other bill to get the $2,000 checks for individuals. that wasn't going to happen. he signed it. as you mentioned, democrats are going to press ahead and try to hold him to that idea of upping the amount to $2,000 which has some republicans in the senate very uncomfortable. >> eric: uncomfortable republicans in the senate.

could this boomerang on the republicans and hurt them or will it help as the congressman just suggested in georgia? >> hard to say how this is going to affect the vote in georgia. because there's just -- it's a nationalized race. i'm not sure this will have any material impact on that. certainly look, it's -- dissension in the republican ranks. a bunch of senators by rand paul and others. he said we're not growing to do this. so mitch mcconnell puts him in a tough spot. the way this whole thing went down with the president's team negotiating this and the president coming in and blowing it up at the last minute really, you know, put republicans in a very tough spot. obviously mitch mcconnell is going to have to deal with the fallout right now. >> yeah. talk about a tough spot. top page of the "new york post" says "stop the insanity", very blunt and stinging message

against the president. he says you lost the election. here's how to save your legacy. you're cheering for an undemocratic coup, sydney powell is a crazy person and on and on. if you want to submit your influence, set the stage for a future return, you have to channel your fury to something productive. stop thinking about january 6 and start thinking about january 5. what do you make, tom, of this message to the president to stop trying to challenge the election and accept the results? this from the corporate could you sip of fox news that has supported the president, his favorite read. >> right. conservative newspaper. it's not what was said -- >> eric: tom, sorry to interrupt you. let's go to joe biden who is speaking after his meeting with national security experts and foreign policy teams. he's in wilmington discussing the future of his administration on the foreign affairs front.

>> the firefighters that jumped into action early on that christmas morning, last christmas morning. their bravery and cool-headedness likely saves lives, prevented a worse outcome. we're internally grateful to that law enforcement agency. i know the hearts of all americans are with the people of nashville as they cover from this traumatic event. now vice president harris and i along with our nominees to lead the national security institutions have just been briefed by some of the professionals that have been conducting agency reviews as a part of our transition. this is a long-standing part of the orderly transition of power in american democracy. we welcome teams from the incoming trump-pence administration four years ago. gave them an access to all that we had. over the past few weeks, teams of genuine policy and management

experts, many of them previous government experience who have gone into agencies across the government to conduct interviews of personnel, to gather information and to assess the state of the federal government that we will shortly inherit. these teams worked under incredibly difficult circumstances. taking covid-19 precautions and waiting weeks for the ascertainment so they could go in and be cleared to go in. but they have done an outstanding job. for some agencies, our teams received cooperation from the career staff and those agencies. from others, most notably the department of defense, we encountered obstruction from the political leadership of that department. the truth is, many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred

enormous damage. many of them have been hollowed out in personnel, capacity and in morale. in the policy processes have add trophies or been sidelined. and the despair of our alliances of our alliances. in general disengagement from the world and all that makes it harder for our government to protect the american people. to defend our vital interests. in a world where threats are constantly evolving and our adversaries are adapting. rebuilding the full set of our instruments of foreign policy and national security is a key challenge that the vice president-elect harris and i will face on taking office starting with diplomacy.

we heard about the critical early investment we have to make in diplomacy and rebuilding our alliances: when we consider the most daunting threats of our time, we know that meeting them requires american engagement and american leadership and none of them can be solved by america acting alone. take climate change, for example. the united states accounts for less than 15% of the global carbon emissions. without clear coordinated and committed approach from the other 85% of the carbon emitters, the world will continue to warm. storms will continue to worsen. climate change will continue to threaten the lives and

livelihoods of public health and economics of our existence of our planet. we learned the cost of being unprepared for a pandemic. that leaps borders and circles the globe. for going to -- for investing with our partners around the world, to strengthen the health systems everywhere, we're undermining our ability to permanently defeat covid-19 and leaving ourselves vulnerable to the next epidemic. and competing with china. they're accountable for trade abuses and human rights and other fronts. our position was stronger. we built coalitions with like-minded partners that shared our interests and values. we make up only 25% -- almost 25% of the entire economy of the world.

but together with our democratic partners, we more than double our economic leverage. on any issue that matters to the u.s. and china relationship from pursuing a foreign policy, from the middle class, including a trillion economic agenda that produces and protects american workers, our intellectual prosperity and the environment to ensuring prosperity in ten dough pacific region, to championing human rights, we're stronger and more effective and flanked by nations that share our vision and the future of our world. that's how we multiply the impact of our efforts. make those efforts more sustainable. that's the power of smart, effective american leadership. right now there's an enormous vacuum. we're going to have to regain the trust and confidence of a world that has begun to find ways to work around us or work without us. we also heard from key leaders

of our intelligence and defense review teams. including stephanie o'sullivan, retired army lieutenant general karen gibson. we talked about the different strategic challenges we're going to face from both russia and china and the reforms we must make to put ourselves in the strongest possible position to meet those challenges. that includes modernizing our defense priorities to better deter aggression in the future rather than continuing to overinvest and legacy systems designed to address threats of the past. we have to be able to innovate, to reimagine our defenses against growing threats and new realms like cyber space. we're still learning about the extent of the solar winds hack and the vulnerabilities that have been exposed. as i said last week, this attack

constitutes a grave risk for our national security. we need to close the gap between where our capabilities are now and where they need to be to better deter, detect, disrupt and respond to those sorts of intrusions in the future. this is an area where republicans and democrats are in agreement. we should be able to work in a bipartisan basis to better secure the american people against malign cyber acting. right now as our nation is in a period of transition, we need to make sure that nothing is lost in the hand-off between the administrations. my team need a clear picture of our posture around the world. our operations to deter our enemies. we need full visibility into the budget planning underway at the defense department and other agencies in order to avoid any window of confusion our catch-up that our adversaries may try to

exploit. as i said from the beginning, we have encountered road blocks from the political leadership to the department of defense and the office of management and budget. right now we just aren't getting the information that we need from the outgoing administration in key national security areas. it's nothing short of my view of irresponsibility. finally, we spoke about the day one challenge that we need to address immediately, drawing on the skill sets of the department of homeland security and the federal emergency management agency. we were briefed on the steps needed to clean up the humanitarian disaster that the trump administration has systematically created on our southern border. we will institute humane and re-orderly responses that means building the capacity to safely process asylum seekers without

creating near-term crisis in the midst of this deadly pandemic. these are hard issues. the current administration has made them much harder by working to erode our capacity. it's going to take time to rebuild that capacity. we're going to work purposely, diligently and responsibly to roll back trump's restrictions. starting on day one. but it's not as simple as throwing a switch to turn everything back on, especially amid a pandemic. we'll have to have a process to ensure everyone's health and safety including safety of asylum seekers, hoping for a new start in the united states free of violence and persecution. of course, an essential part of this is managing the safe equitable and efficient distribution of vaccinations to as many americans as possible as quickly as possible.

fema has an enormous part to play in this. we heard from the former fema director, craig fugate today. want to make sure that our administration is poised to make full use of fema's domestic reach and capacity and managing our covid response. finally, from every briefer i was heartened to hear about the incredible strength we'll be inheriting in the career professionals and working people across these agencies. they never stop doing their jobs and continue to serve our country day in and day out to keep their fellow americans safe just as they have always done. these agencies are filled with patriots that have earned our respect hand shouldn't be political footballs. i'm looking forward to working with them again, asking for their advice and inputs to help

shape the best possible policies for all americans. i want to thank the incredible folks that served on these agency review teams as part of this transition. they've dedicated their time and energy, vital experience and expertise, to help ensure vice president harris and i are ready to hit the ground running. we look forward to the start of a new year's, fresh with hope and possibilities for better days to come. clear-eyed about the challenges that will not disappear overnight. i'll reiterate my message to the american people. we've overcome incredible challenges as a nation and we've done it before and we'll do it again. we'll do it by coming together, by uniting after years of pain and loss. a year particularly needed to heal to rebuild, to reclaim american's place in the world. this is the work that lies ahead

of us. i know we're up to the task. we will champion liberty and democracy once more. we will reclaim our credibility and lead the free world and we will once again lead not just by the example of our power but by the power of our example. god bless you all, may god protect our troops. thank you. >> eric: president-elect joe biden not taking any questions, walking off the podium after his address. laying out his views and rolling out a strategy for protecting the ex-that. on national security, terrorism and climate issues. this as he started paying tribute to the six officers that evacuated the residents before the deadly bombing in nashville on christmas morning. we praise those officers and law enforcement. you know, the police have

recently been derided by so many, by recently and we take our hats off and salute and thank these law enforcement members. so for more about what the president just said, matt gorman, former communications director for the republican committee and mat bennett, deputy assistant for president clinton. matt bennett, let's start with you. he just said the current white house is irresponsible, not giving his team full transition information to national security issues. what do you make of that? >> you know, it's not surprising but it's also shocking in modern times, transitions have gone smoothly. it was delayed by the recount in 2000 but we got to work as quickly as we could and made sure the incoming bush team had what they needed. the bush team was incredibly responsible about ensuring that the obama team had what they needed, but this time the trump

team not surprisingly at all is acting the way the president has which is deeply irresponsible and keeping those teams from the information and the people that they need to talk to and hear from so they they're ready to hit the ground running january 20th. >> eric: matt, your response. >> no, it's trump-like. the gold standard for a transition was george w. bush into obama and your colleague dana perino says that all the time that people that lose when there's power struggles is the american people. we have too many threats, china, russia, the middle east, for people to screw around with our national security. so look, i hope it's not true but if it is true, it needs to be fixed asap. >> eric: again, matt, as the democrat, we've had tremendous success. the president has had tremendous success on international terrorism. we had no foreign jihadi terrorist attacks in our nation

during the trump administration. he's been wiping out isis and the caliphate over there. wouldn't you say that this administration has been able to protect us from these type of foreign threats -- >> without a doubt. night and day. without a doubt. it's night and day between what president obama did who admitted he didn't have a strategy for the caliphate and the middle east and president trump who kept us safe. look at with china. i'm troubled with how general austin has no experience dealing with china. that is a relationship that will define the next 50 years of not just american foreign policy but american life. so you're right. president trump has kept us safe and he also has kept our adversaries, whether it's china or others on their heels. >> eric: matt bennett? look, we haven't had thankfully a 9-11. we haven't had a world trade center bombing under this president. >> no, we didn't have one under

president obama either. so whether his alleged strategy worked or he was in this respect lucky we'll never know. he has been contentious with our allies, he's blown up and destroyed multilateral institutions that have helped to protect the united states for the last 80 years. so it's a lot for incoming president biden to clean up. i think much will depend on how we respond to this pandemic. it is true we haven't had major attacks from foreign terrorist organizations on our soil under trump but we haven't had one since 9-11 anyway. >> eric: mat bennett to finish up, china and the issues with joe biden, hunter biden, of course and the basic issues in terms of the former vice president's record. do you think he will continue to be as tough as president trump

has been on beijing? are you concerned at that? do you have confidence or are you worried? >> no, complete confidence in president-elect biden's ability to deal with china. he has dealt with foreign affairs for decades. first as the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and vice president. he knows the chinese and knows the leadership well. he's tough on them. he's very mindful that they are number 1 geo political foe along with russia, which is different, not as powerful economically but very dangerous. so he will be equally tough on china but without the kind of back and forth and chaos that always comes with trump and policy making. >> eric: matt gorman, last word. do you have a u.s. optimistic? >> this transfer of power is an important part of our democracy and a point that needs to be strong at both ends.

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but what they have also said on the record, making the connection, the location of the bomb next to the at&t building is not necessarily wrong but it's speculative at this point. let's move to footage from the scene. officer wells can be seen in the area of the blast. he said he heard a voice from god telling him to check on his fellow officer. moments later, debris of the blast overwhelmed the area. jeffery rasmussen got the warning from cops and escaped as the blast shook his car. >> you know, we got to safety. that's one thing. the second thing i'm so grateful to the officers that showed up. put themselves in danger to help us get to safety. the way i see it, you know, two angels showed up on our door

steps and happened to be in police officer's uniforms. >> dna analysis of material found on other vehicles id's anthony walker, 60 years old. investigators say they have no idea if anybody else was involved. the associated press said a neighbor of warner said nashville and the world would never are forget him. others say he was reclusive. violence was out of his character. >> he was a loner. you know, he was friendly with the kids, but nothing came out of him. >> he waved at people. you know, he never -- never was friend with anybody. he never talked to anybody. >> investigators don't know what the bomb was made of. evidence is being analyzed in

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. >> eric: the country saw new pandemic travel record over this weekend. the tsa reports nearly 1.3 million people traveled through american airports yesterday. this despite the centers for disease control warning folks to stay home for the holidays.

the tsa has screened a million people, six out of ten days. the number still lower than what we saw during the holidays last year. however, you know, dr. fauci and others, they've been warning of a new bigger coronavirus surge coming because of the travel and the holiday get-togethers. california's governor gavin newsome expected to extend the state order because of an explosion of coronavirus in his state. this is as a swankyrestaurant in beverly hills was planning a secret new year's eve party. william la jeunesse has more. >> the governor said the stay-at-home order would stay in place for an indefinite period of time in central and southern california. the announcement comes tomorrow. honestly, the metric, eric, is icu beds, available capacity must exceed 15%.

right now it's zero in the two regions. better up north. the ers are overflowing. 70% of ambulances are diverted from the nearist hospital because they're full and the number of positive cases exceeds 2.1 million meaning one in 20 californians are testing positive. >> it's really up to the public and what they do the next couple weeks to whether or not we're going to push our healthcare staff to potentially dangerous levels. that is something that is entirely within their hands. >> dr. walker wants everyone to stay home for few years. contrary to plans at this beverly hills restaurant that put inside in their take-out orders for an underground party. i'd said -- >> well, it turned out somebody

had friends at city hall, which said no to the party. what health officials are fear are more spikes like the one happening now that is tied to thanksgiving. tsa 1.3 million on sunday at the airport. the highest in eight months. basically thanksgiving people in the hospital now. people who have christmas gatherings would be in the infection part over new year's. that's why dr. fauci says a surge upon a surge upon a surge. >> eric: what is it in hollywood? smoking something? is it the water? what is it with these people? >> i could say they're trying to make a living. but how they get away with it, you get to the arrogance of it all. eric? >> eric: hollywood. thank you. and whether or not the fda would

approve astra zeneca's vaccine this week. it could be 95% effective. the u.s. has approved two vaccines so far. pfizer's and moderna's. the question is who is first getting the shot. let's bring in dr. nicole sapphire. dr. sapphire, now there's three. the third astra zeneca one coming online. is it improved or different from pfizer and the moderna vaccine? >> eric, you know, the astra zeneca vaccine, talk about it being approved in the u.k. the u.s. study was put on hold a couple months back. so it's not getting geared up to undergo its fda looking into right now. this is more for the u.k. it's a different vaccine as opposed to pfizer and moderna utilizing the mrna technology. we heard the nova vax vaccine is

entering stage three trials. johnson & johnson is submitting their approval. these are all different vaccines compared to pfizer and moderna. that is great news. we don't want them to be the same. we want a variation. maybe some work better than others in certain people. it's encouraging. we're seeing millions being rolled out. looking forward to see what johnson & johnson puts forward soon. we're behind our goal. the goal was to have 20 million americans receive that first injection by the end of 2020. at this point, we're just a little over two million. so i'd like to see ramp up of the roll-out of the vaccines because it is crucial that we get the first injection into as many americans as possible. >> eric: asap as much as we can. there's some controversy. cdc recommends if you're 75 years or older or an essential worker, police, fire, teachers,

grocery store workers. they should be in line. in florida, governor desantis saying no, no, no. older people, seniors, 65 and above should get the priority. here's the governor talking about that. >> we want to work to get this out to our senior population. we think that is very important for reducing mortality, reducing the number of people that needs to be hospitalized for covid-19. the reason why we did this, even though this is our initial guidance, the cdc had an advisory committee that actually initially recommended seniors not even be next in line. that you do essential workers, many of whom are very young, many of whom did not have a significant health problems. >> eric: is it ethical or inappropriate for him to be doing this, to deny first come first serve for essential workers and giving it to senior or you think that is appropriate

considering how susceptible they are to coronavirus? >> eric, there's no right or wrong answer here. it's not that black and white. it's up to the states to decide what is best for their population. there's two sides to every argument. you have some states that are choosing to vaccinate their prisoners before some of their front line workers. that is causing controversy. a lot of prisoners have chronic illness. they're in confined spaces and taking up a lot of beds in community hospitals. that's why certain states are choosing to vaccinate prisoners. in terms of whether or not they should be vaccinating the ellederly, those over the age of 75, some people are saying that they don't have as many years of life left to live, so maybe the vaccination shouldn't go to them whereas other people are saying hold on, they're the most vulnerable. >> eric: that is so heartless. i know. so heartless to -- >> exactly. there's two sides of the equation and there's not -- you can argue both of them until they're blue in the face. ultimately my opinion is it should be a very targeted

approach. we should be vaccinating those that have been proven to be the most vulnerable and the most likely to die because of covid-19. >> eric: they need the protection and what a heartless argument. i know. some are saying that. not you but it's downing. dr. sapphire, always good to see you. we'll get back to you as the new vaccines roll out. >> thank you. >> eric: coming down to the wire. the run-offs that will decide whether party controls the senate. we're live. the last-minute campaigning and the big names trying to give the candidates in georgia a boost. st liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's something you shouldn't try at home... look, liberty mutual customizes home insurance so we only pay for what we need. it's pretty cool. that is cool! grandma! very cool.

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>> eric: well, we're a week away from the georgia run-off. can you believe that? that will determine which party controls the senate. president trump expected to campaign for republicans there a week from today. steve harrigan reporting live on the race. hi, steve.

>> early voting has begun in georgia. so far turnout is strong. 2.1 million people have voted early. that's on part with the general election in november, which is unheard of. the pace slowed about christmas time, but expected to pick back up. it's important to see where the voting turnout is strongest. in the six congressional districts controlled by democrats, turnout is extremely high. it's low in northwestern georgia. that is strong republican territory. that is where. trump is coming to visit perhaps to try to inspire that rural republican vote to get out and vote. the money is at record levels across the board. the last two months, the four candidates have raised more than $340 million. the democrats ossoff and warnock topping $100 million each in the past two months. purdue and loeffler, less. 68 million and 64 million. when you turn on the tv, all you

see here in georgia are political ads and they're getting more and more builter. the two run-off elections are slated election day january 5. it's expected to determine which party controls the senate for the next two years. party leaders are already warning people because these races are so hotly disputed, that there could be contested elections. we could see delays and complaints. the final results could not be known until weeks after election day. back to you. >> eric: amazing. two big races. big thing on the line in georgia. before we go, we had to show you this. the vaccine is rolling out in georgia. also high in the sky. take a look at what one pilot did. he traced a giant syringe in the sky to mark the occasion. the map of the syringe that he flew. talk about 170 miles in total to do that.

you have to know where to make the sharp turns. isn't it amazing that pilots can do stuff like this? he said he wanted to give people food for thought. that is an optimistic and great symbol to know the vaccines are here and the vaccines are on the way! great news for us as we can try to celebrate the fact that the vaccines are rolling out. bill hemmer report monday through friday, 3:00 p.m. i'm eric shawn. thanks for watching. ♪

>> you're looking live at nashville where we are learning more about what the suspected bomber was telling his neighbors prior to the blast. what investigators are doing right now to determine the motive as the new video released showing moments leading up to the massive explosion. welcome. i'm edward lawrence in for neil cavuto. this is "your world." mike tobin is in nashville. let's get to mike. mike, tell us what is the latest there? >> as far as a motive goes, an unnamed investigator being quoted saying one of the avenues they're traveling as far as determining a knowive is that anthony warren was paranoid about 5g technology. the late father of anthony warner worked for at&t. you know the truck was parked outside the at&t