wondering how they're going to make payroll tomorrow. >> alicia: they need folks like you. we have the website up. hopefully this gets attention. thank you. >> thank you. >> alicia: i'm alicia acuna. here's eric shawn. >> eric: i'm eric shawn in for bill hemmer. a live look at capitol hill. take a look at the senate about to go into session any moment now. republican majority leader mitch mcconnell adding larger covid relief checks to the bill after he blocked a vote yesterday. meanwhile, senate minority leader chuck schumer, he's accusing the gop leaders of trying to deprive americans of a $2,000 survival check. this as president trump and some other republicans are pushing for a bigger payment including georgia's two gop senators as you know are facing a critical run-off next week. the run-offs, that election will decide the control of the u.s. senate. we're covering this from all the

angles right know. peter doocy reporting from the campaign trail is in georgia. our political panel standing by to weigh-in. first, rich edson. reporting live from west palm beach, florida near the president's mar-a-largo resort with the latest, rich. >> good afternoon, eric. the president just wrapping up his day here. what you've got is a push from the white house and the president to nearly triple or more than triple the size of those $600 checks. the irs is sending them out according to the treasury department and the president tweeting this morning, $2,000 asap. the president also accused senate republicans of having a death wish for blocking those increased payments. the fastest way to the $2,000 checks would be for the senate, if it had the votes, to approve the bill that passed the house earlier this week. that's what democrats are pushing. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has initiated a process for a vote on those $2,000 checks, but he's adding

president trump's other demands too that bill. the repeal of a controversial law that gives tech companies certain legal protections and the creation of an election fraud commission. democrats say this is all a maneuver to thwart the $2,000 payments. >> what we're seeing is leader mcconnell trying to kill the checks, the $2,000 checks desperatery needed by so many american families by tying them completely to partisan provisions that have absolutely nothing to do with helping struggling families across the country. it won't pass the house. it cannot become law. >> the democrats themselves held this up for months. so here in the last minute, they're complaining about the normal operation of the senate. i'm an outsider of this process but i can tell you the three things that mitch mcconnell is rying to do that is in line with what the president has said. i support what the president is trying to do. >> it took congress months to

negotiate the $900 billion recovery bill that the senate just signed. republicans call that agreement targeted and appropriate and said they would consider another bill if they thought the country needed it. boosting the $600 checks to $2,000 would increase the price tag by nearly $500 billion and now a significant number of republicans are saying that's too expensive. eric? >> eric: we're waiting on the senate right now. we'll bring you any action from the senate floor when we get it. thanks. the run-offs in georgia are less than a week away. control of the u.s. senate on the line. peter doocy is reporting near augusta, georgia. that's where kelly loeffler is holding a rally right now. high, peter. >> eric, good afternoon. you said it. less than a week away for the run-offs. four candidates on the ballot. only three are on the trail today. the democrat raphael warnock has no public events on his schedule on this wednesday. remember last week, his wife

accused him of running over her foot with his car in march. that is something that he was never charged with. now a former camper at a camp warnock was in charge with is accusing counselors or wrong doing years ago, this is a big part of the republican kelly loeffler's pitch today. >> we have to make sure that georgians know exactly who he is and in his own words. because it's dangerous policies, it's dangerous candidates and the dangerous past. >> with a chance to catch up with the other democrat on the ballot, jon ossoff today, his fortunes may be linked with warnock as they're on the ballot next to each other. any concern that the allegations of wrong doing against reverend warnock could possibly be a drag on the democratic ticket next week? >> none whatsoever. >> despite the new questions about warnock's past, the biden transition team is having the

president-elect come down to campaign on behalf of car knock and ossoff on the eve of the election monday. we just heard this from the incoming white house press secretary jen psaki. >> we're not naive about the fact that this is a special election and we're going to take no vote for granted. >> we've been on the ground a day but we can tell the events are looking different than the presidential cycle events that we grew accustomed to during the pandemic. especially at the ossoff event earlier today. we saw something that we have not seen since covid 19 shut everything down on the campaign trail. that is a photo line with supporters. eric? >> eric: well, i guess it's back. thanks, peter. so what will make the difference for the democratic candidates or

their republican counter parts in that race? let's go to the former chief of staff to senator mike lee of utah, jim kesler from chuck schum schumer. boyd, let's start with you. we heard that warnock is awol. it's unusual for a candidates to be awol. you think the allegations against warnock are relevant and will impact him? >> any time you have silence from a campaign this close to the election, it's never a good look. it means they're hunkering down and looking for a way to change the subject. so it's concerning for that camp that they are hunkered down today rather than amongst the people rallying in support. i also think it's interesting that on both sides of the aisle that they're really focussed on

what they're action, not what they're for. both sides are attacking the fear mongering from both sides of what happens if the democrats take the senate, what happens if the republicans keep control and become obstructionists. so it's an anti theme action opposed to here's our vision, here's what it's for. interesting down the stretch. >> eric: boyd, jim has a good point. we heard the governor of that state, brian kemp, standing in the capitol saying it's a choice to save america next week, he says. the america that we know or socialism. how is that resonating with democratic voters? >> socialism is the charge that republicans want to make about democrats, i don't think it's going to work in georgia. these are no socialists. they're far from it. you've got a republican party in georgia that is really in chaos. president trump today called on the republican governor to

resign. you've got kelly loeffler and david purdue, look like monkeys dancing on a wire on the stimulus package. not sure where they are. these are candidates in disarray. in a race that republicans -- >> eric: they say support -- not to interrupt you. but they say they support the $2,000 stimulus checks. monday the president will say they want to help you, the working men and women. >> they weren't there two or three weeks ago. they moved here on this wire. >> eric: boyd, you know the president will say that. he's going to like put his arms around loeffler and david purdue and say they're with me. if you want to save this country, send them back to washington. >> there's some interesting jiujitsu going on with the politics of this in the united states senate. the move that mitch mcconnell has just made is really a double

populous move. one is the $2,000 checks and we need to take a punch at big tech folks. so he's trying to make it a double whammy where the republicans will say we're for the little guy and we have to take a swipe at big tech at the same time. an interesting move by senator mcconnell. it will be interesting to see if that resonates in the end in georgia. >> i don't think -- >> eric: in your view -- go ahead, jim. >> this is a card trick. mitch mcconnell doesn't want these stimulus checks, so he added a poison pill to it because he's trying to shift blame from republicans on this to democrats. like a lot of card tricks, some in the audience will believe it and some will not. this is what section 230 says in it. it allows internet providers to

remove obscene, lewd, filthy, excessively violent material. why are we trying to get rid of this section that protects people that put revenge porn on their site? just put the checks up there, stand alone. >> eric: you know the president would say it's about censorship of conservatives, jim. that's why he's trying to push it. >> yell, yeah, that's what he's going to say. he said the election is a fraud and 59 out of 60 court cases says that's not the case. because the president says it doesn't mean it's true. i'm reading you the words from the law, from the 1996 words. i mean, it's obscene -- >> eric: jim, i have to interrupt you. because senate majority leader mitch mcconnell right now. he's talking about the payment

and he's saying that he's against handing out $2,000 to americans. >> if specific struggling households still need help after the huge historic package that was just signed into law four days ago has taken effect, what they need is smart targeted aid. not another fire hose of borrowed money that encompasses other people that are doing just fine. so in my view, colleagues like senator cornyn and senator toomey have pointed this out persuasively. more broadly, here's the deal. the senate is not going to split apart the three issues that president trump linked together just because democrats are afraid to address two of them. the senate is not going to be bullied to rushing out more borrowed money into the hands of

democrat rich friends that don't need the help. we just approved almost a trillion dollars in aid a few days ago. it struck a balance between broad support for all kinds of households and a lot more targeted relief for those that need help the most. we're going to stay smart, we're going to stay focused and continue to deliver on the needs for our nation. now, mr. president, i move to proceed to calendar number 480 s 85. >> the clerk will record the motion. >> the motion to proceed, calendar number 480 s 85. a bill to improve and reform police -- >> eric: there you heard it. mitch mcconnell saying that he is against the $2,000 payments saying when has been already allocated by the government is more than enough. he says what we need are smart

targeted answers, not money that will help rich democrats. boyd, let's start with you. you're the republican. man, what does this do to the republican party, the president and impact georgia? looks like people won't get the $2,000 checks? >> yeah, it was sport of a sparticus moment for leader mcconnell and going back to fiscal responsibility and saying hey, we have things on the table that should stimulate the economy. anything that does go forward really should target our small businesses, which are the backbone that provide jobs that will help american families in the long haul. they're the heart and soul of the economy that will keep it going and benefit everybody in the end. also tacking on an additional $500 billion for those checks is really trying to alleviate the pain of some immediately, but inflicting a lot of pain for generations to come on our

children and grandchildren that will have to pay for it. >> eric: let's go to jim, the democrat. does he have a point in terms of all the money being spent that should be targeted in a way to create jobs or will this hurt republicans? >> i'm dizzy from mitch mcconnell. he's done a lot of gymnastics in the last few days. i give him credit. he said here's the truth. i'm against this. we're not going to do it. i think what will happen next is with the georgia race, you're going to start seeing -- it does not turn out the way republicans want to and this race, you'll see blame games going back and forth. this was a misstep. i don't blame mcconnell. this is a donald trump misstep. this bill was negotiated for 13 days. he didn't talk about stimulus checks at all. he had his person in there. he didn't do anything. on the final day of the negotiations, trump tweeted 20 times, 16 of those were about election fraud, one of them was

about the stimulus bill. it wasn't about the checks, this is just -- >> eric: jim, we're up against the clock. i apologize. it's not me. it's the clock. we're dizzy. you're not the only one. we'll have more about iran next. r commercials with nostalgia. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's one that'll really take you back. wow! what'd you get, ryan? it's customized home insurance from liberty mutual! what does it do bud? it customizes our home insurance so we only pay for what we need! and what did you get, mike? i got a bike. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ new projects means you need to hire.gers. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database. claim your seventy five dollar credit, when you post your first job at indeed.com/home.

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>> eric: now to breaking news about iran. pentagon sources telling fox news they're seeing the most concerning signs they say yet that tehran is potentially

plotting an attack and they may have american troops in the cross hairs. the military responding with a show of force. two american b-52 bombers flew over the persian gulf as part of a 30-hour nonstop swing to the middle east and back. the pentagon source says that new intelligence signals that iran is planning something complex and the signals are very real. we're also told that pentagon's war planners are not sure what iran is planning or targeting but worried about another assault in iraq. that's where the u.s. has interest. a senior u.s. military official says the goal of the fly-over was to send a clear signal to tehran that we're ready to respond to any possible attack. this is the third such strategic bomber deployment to the region recently and it comes after rockets hit the u.s. embassy

compound in baghdad. president trump said if one american is killed, i will hold iran responsible. think it over. back her at home, los angeles district attorney george gaskon is facing backlash from his own office. they say orders are forcing them to file late the law. william lodge necessary is live in los angeles with this controversy. hi, william. >> this morning the prosecutors went to court to stop the d.a. asking for an injunction and the judge's ruling reversing his directive to dismiss charges, reduce sentences and not seek enhancements against previously convicted felons. prosecutors say what he wants them to do is illegal and unethical, especially under the state's three strikes law, which

says in every case in which a defendant has one or more serious or violent felony convictions that the prosecuting attorney shall plead and prove each prior conviction. and gaskon says they can't ignore it. their directives are contrary to the law. so the internal flight is spilling over each day. 26-year-old fernando rojo was killed in a gang shooting. the family is outraged after gascon cut a deal giving the shooter seven years in prison instead of life. >> so you're going to tell me that you can murder someone and you're going to get seven years? that's not fair. >> thankfully the court said no. this cannot be in the interest of justice to dismiss these allegations. >> gascon says overcharging prosecutors have overcrowded prisons unfairly against minorities, eric.

governor newsome, the l.a. times and berkeley law all support his effort to reduce the prison population. eric? >> eric: we've seen this across the country, too. thank you. seems there's a new strain of coronavirus, the one from britain, it's not just inside tour country but may be spreading. we'll tell you where next.

>> the colorado state lab confirmed the first variant of covid-19 in the united states right here in colorado. to be clear, that doesn't mean that colorado is the first state that has people with the variant. in fact, it's very likely it exists in many states, particularly states that have more interaction with the united kingdom. >> eric: the governor of colorado and colorado state

health officials identified the first known u.s. case of the new covid strain that they first saw in the united kingdom . health experts say they expect to see more infections popping up in our country. let's bring in dr. ashis from the brown university school of public health in providence. good to see you. >> thank you. >> eric: this is the first case and it's concerning, a young man in his 20s. he has no travel history. he's in isolation. does that tell you how contagious this new strain will be? >> yeah. thanks for having me on. we know this strain looks like it's about 50 to 70% more contagious. it also says this is in the community. he didn't get it by the u.k. he got it from somebody in colorado and spreading in colorado and stands to reason it's spreading in other parts of

the country has well. >> eric: how fast do you think it will spread to the nursing home and to seattle like what happened here in the u.s.? >> yeah, the short answer, eric, we don't know. that's why we need to be doing surveillance. we need to be sequencing these viruses. that's why the u.k. discovered it so quickly, they sequence the viruses that they identify. we have to do that. we have plenty of capacity. we have to figure out how widespread it is and make decisions after that. >> eric: how concerned are you about this? it's in europe. first started and then south africa and throughout the middle east and i'm concerned about canada. if it's in canada, it's going to get here, doc. >> it's here. it's in colorado. and i suspect if it's in colorado and didn't travel, it's

probably not just in colorado. so we do have to get on top of this. i'm concerned because 50% more contagious means more people getting infected, more people getting hospitalized. our hospitals as you know in many places are quite stretched. we have to get on top of this thing. >> eric: with the convenience, we're told that they can blunt this one like the first strain. is that true? >> we don't know for sure. everything we know about the vaccines makes me feel confident that the ones we have right now will work against this variant. i'm not super worried about that, at least not in the short run. >> eric: meanwhile, we have this tragedy in louisiana. congressman-elect just elected. 41 years old, luke letlo out there campaigning and now diagnosed with covid-19 and passed away leaving his wife, julia and two young children. it's so heart breaking.

shows this virus is deadly, killer and spares no one. your thoughts on the fact that a congressman elect supposed to take the oath of office this sunday in the prime of his life is cut down by coronavirus. >> it's heart breaking. for the family, i can't imagine what they're going through. it's awful. it's a reminder, a lot of people that like to say it's only elderly people that get sick. it does affect elderly people more often. but the bottom line it affects all of us. that's why woe have to keep the level of infections low. this case is a real example of how things can go badly. >> eric: you know, really strikes me about the late congressman-elect. look at the photos on twitter. a lot of campaign rallies, a lot of personal small events in louisiana, in that district. and they're not wearing masks.

he standing around with supporters not wearing masks. your thoughts for our audience as a reminder for what they should be doing? >> look, this stuff should not be political or partisan. we know they work. they're a way to protect yourself and others especially right now given how much infection there is. everybody should have a mask when they're outside of their home. it's the right thing to do. the fact that we somehow made this partisan or political bothers me. it's a public health measure. it works. people should follow it for themselves, their family and their community. >> eric: dr. jha, well-said. our heart and prayer goes out to the congressman-elect's family. it's a sad reminder of the deadliness of this did says. dr. jha, thank you. a massive explosion that could have wiped out a nation's entire government and all caught on tape.

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>> eric: headlines for the bottom of the hour. a member of the u.s. senate saying he will object to certifying joe biden's presidential win. republican josh hawley of missouri joining several house republican members saying they will challenge the electoral college results a week from today. that means the house and the senate will have to vote on those objections. cameras capturing a moment of explosion that rocked the airport in yemen moments after an airplane carrying the country's new government landed there. nearly two dozen people were killed in the blast.

the cabinet members are phone. so far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. back in our country, the next time you fly, one airline can guarantee your seat mate won't have hooves. they'll have paws, but not hooves. alaska airlines becoming the first u.s. airline to ban emotional support animals after the industry reported a search to people flying with everything from pigs to a mini horse. the feds cracked down on this ruling airlines only have to allow service dogs. well, they knew about it. word of a warning about the suspect in the christmas bombing in nashville. the associated press recording that police looked into the suspects, anthony warner last year after women identified as his girlfriend told nashville police officers that he was building bombs in his rv. mike tobin with more on this live in nashville.

why this is disturbing, mike. >> it goes back to an incident report from 2019, eric that shows indeed police were alerted that anthony warner was making bombs. august 21 of 2019, police contacted a woman described as warner's girlfriend. she made statements that her boyfriend was building bombs and the rv trailer at his residence. that is suspect talks about the military and bomb making. police attempted several times and could not get the suspect to answer the door. the report also says police saw the rv but could not see inside the rv. the yard was fenced off and the location was wired up with alarms and cameras. police say the hazardous device unit followed up but they were denied access. metro contacted the department of defense and the fbi. a spokesman for bureau received a request and found no records

at all. prior to the discovery of this incident report, the only record they had of warner was a pot charge in 1978. >> he was not on our radar. he was not someone that was identified as a person of interest for the bureau. so we were not familiar with this individual until this incident. >> also today security video from some of the downtown businesses has been released showing the impact of the bomb. three injuries resulted from the explosion, only the bomber died. a lot of credit is being given the police officers, particularly six of them, that ran towards the danger and got people to safety. >> eric: they are the heros. we're not forgetting them. thanks, mike. so why didn't the police or the fbi investigate even further? alex little, former assistant u.s. attorney is here with us. he's based in nashville.

is this the way police procedure works? the guy is building a bomb and he says no, i'm not going to show you anything. and they do away. >> no, this is a colossal failure of policing. nothing that they did really was by the book here. this is an area that i worked in very closely. the fbi said that the clip you just showed, it wasn't on their radar. if he wasn't on the radar, that's also a problem. did metro nashville not tell the fbi about the contents of the report. the report should have been enough alone to provoke the officers to get a search warrant to look in the rv. law enforcement has gotten search warrants for drug crimes, far less things. the fact that they didn't take an extra step means we have a crater on second avenue. >> eric: the report says that warner's girlfriend, distraught, sitting on the stairs of her house. she has two weapons next to her. she's telling police that warner

is building bomgs in the rv. they go over to the house. they knock on the doors. there's no apples. they can see the rv and leave it alone. should they have gotten a search warrant? what should they have done? >> they should have done that. it wasn't just the girlfriend. look at the reports from last night. his own former lawyer says they know about bombs. he's capable of building a bomb. those two things together, you might discounts one report that you could say i don't if we believe her. when a second person corroborates it, you go to the house. it has security cameras, no trespassing fines. it's fine to have that but suggested that somebody might be paranoid and consistent with what the girlfriend said. for a whole unit of police officers not to put those pieces together, write up a search warrants and look in the rv is a disaster. this should have been stopped.

>> eric: that lawyer, raymond morton iii also prevented police from going in the house. what is the procedure for a lawyer saying no, you're not going in my client's house? can the police overrule that? >> yes. it happens every day. they get a search warrant. it's not rocket science. you have a specific report and corroborating details and you go to a judge and get a search warrant and look and see. sometimes they come up and you don't find what you're looking for. that's okay. when you look for it, you find it. they didn't find it. >> eric: police in nashville are talking about this right now. let's listen in. >> just relayed as soon as we got everything that we have ready to give a statement and really -- i'm just reading over some statements myself. that's how we've been diligently trying to put this together for everyone. >> alicia: >> my understanding is that the

officers didn'ts try to get a search warrant. is that correct? did they ask for one? >> the officers didn't have probable cause to get a search warrant. there was a call for service on a lady who had two guns that needed care. so you know, she needed some assistance. there was nothing else there to say, okay -- you have to have probable cause of a crime about to be committed. there was nothing other than a statement from someone. >> the reason i ask, there's a lot of folks in town and we've been hearing from them that said when they interacted the police, officers take every opportunity they have to search their car, search their person or get a warrant. in this case they didn't ask a judge. why didn't they go and say here's what we go, can we look around? >> you had no reasonable suspicion to go to a judge. could have but it would have been denied. officers didn't take this lightly. they went back. they knocked on the door. they followed up with hazardous

devices unit that deals with explosives. they went to the residence. no signs of an rv there being closed up. they're experts. they couldn't smell anything related to a bomb being made. they turned it over to a specialized investigation division who followed up on it. they called the fbi. had nothing -- legally there was nothing else that could have been done. >> are you aware of the fbi doing anything after the initial contact, did they share this information with the fbi? >> i'm not aware. a lot of this is still forthcoming. >> i'm sorry? >> this happened on christmas. at what point did the department know warner's name? >> i believe we knew of a possible person of interest friday -- not friday but sunday. the fbi was trying to confirm

dna. so sunday evening -- sunday afternoon they had a press conference at 4:00. >> so there was no communication with law enforcement about warner's name from friday to sunday? >> we knew a person of interest. we didn't know it was him. they're still trying -- >> but you knew his name. >> i knew his name. >> so there was no attempt to put that name against metro police's assets to see if he was in is system before? >> that's what senior staff started doing. they looked -- this is sunday -- this is sunday evening when they said might have been a report. but i didn't see a report or anything until monday at a cabinet call with department heads. an attorney that listens in on those calls made a note. makes keep use notes. in that meeting, i said there may be a record out there. so my statement was that it may be.

>> [question inaudible] >> you know, i have no reason to make stuff up. the officers make copious notes. he has a strong statement to say this is what he was told. and after looking him in the eye, i feel confident that that's what he was told. the attorney may be saying something else. but i believe my officer in this case. >> alicia: >> i just want to ask you, in seeing what you have uncovered so far, i'm curious, do you believe that there was a lapse in judgment here? >> i don't believe there was a lapse in judgment. what are we following up on? you have a lady who said this guy is capable of making bombs. the officers try. they knock on the door. they turn it over to hazardous devices that try to ascertain if a bombs is being made. they turn it over to specialized

investigations that contacts the fbi. so if officers go back to his home continually with nothing else and they knock on his door and nothing ever comes out of it, he never grants consent or we never determine anything that gives us probable cause to get a search warrants, the narrative is that we're harassing him. so we have to continue investigating until we have enough to get a search warrants or his consent. we didn't have that. >> [question inaudible] >> i'm still trying to find if the case is cleared or still open or being followed up on. sometimes you have open records that are followed up on later. >> following that investigation they never talked to warner again. >> they never made contact with him. they tried to make contact with him but never did. >> [question inaudible] >> we've talked to the fbi.

they ran him in their database. i don't know if there's more -- that's a question that they can answer. i don't know if they had any more that they can follow up on. we had all the information that we knew. it wasn't more than that at the time. >> [question inaudible] >> i'm sorry, sir. >> [question inaudible] >> so i'm not sure why the director of tbi would make that statement. what i can say is there was a record report made that a person was making bombs and capable of making bombs. that's all we have. we had no actual knowledge of a bomb. we had officers that go there and there was no scent.

if i would have smelled an explosive, that would have given me more to get a search warrant. there wasn't anything there. part of the investigation, they went in the house. the dogs didn't pick up a scent in the house. we had no reason to be in the man's back yard -- >> you were in the house? >> no, no, no. this is after. this is after. >> eric: the nashville police department of course defending their actions dealing with the suicide bomber, anthony warner saying that they did act in proper procedure. police procedure was appropriately followed after warner's girlfriend told authorities, told police officers that warner was making bombs in the rv. they never went inside the rv to check. back with alex little, former assistant attorney, a lawyer in nashville. you heard them say there was no probable cause. a statement or al combination is

not enough probable cause. they didn't have x-ray vision glasses, so in their defense. is that appropriate defense that you just heard from the nashville police department? >> yeah, it pains me to say that he's just absolutely lying to the public right there. one of the most embarrassing things i've seen. i worked in this area in this particular line of work on these sort of cases. if anybody brought that to me as a prosecutor, we would have run to court to get a search warrant. i'm ashamed of nashville. the officers did so great in protecting people that day but the chief has let the city down. >> eric: nashville is a great city. clearly something fell through the cracks. it was not clearly followed up exactly and the investigation will probably show that. alex little in nashville. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> eric: it's been more than a year since the first report of a mystery illness that is now spreading a cross the globe. so china apparently trying to hide more information about how

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>> it's a heated debate going to the senate. looks like the british parliament instead of the senate. here's bernie sanders demanding $2,000 checks in coronavirus relief payments. let's listen. >> i respect that, but what is your problem with allowing the senate to have a freestanding vote? there's a number of people on your side, republicans that have already come forward and said yeah, they want to vote for this $2,000 check. if you want to deal with corporate liability, that's fine.

let's deal with it at some point. bring forth a bill. we can vote on it. all that we're asking for is a simple up or down vote on the issue that tens of peoples of people are talking about right now. will they survive economically in the midst of this pandemic? i ask my colleagues from texas, what is the problem with allowing the u.s. senate to vote on the bill passed by the house? i yield to my colleague from texas. >> the senator from texas. >> mr. president, i would say to our colleague from vermont, i have no problem with providing assistance, whether it's to public health officials that are trying to struggle with this pandemic or to provide money for the research for therapeutics or a vaccine which is being distributed around the country. i have no objection to direct payments to individuals. i voted for the $1,200 direct

payment contained in the cares act. i voted for the additional money provided for in the most recent covid-19 legislation. this legislation that the senator from vermont is advocating would benefit households over $350,000. they would get this money. i would say that one way to deal with this because of course we negotiated back and forth on the last bill, nobody got what they wanted, but if our colleagues wanted an additional financial benefit to people making up the $350,000, why not couple it with liability protection for people that are acting in good faith? this isn't just about corporations. >> eric: we're listening in to the debate on the $2,000 checks and the bill that mitch mcconnell said he will not support breaking that up. he's against the $2,000 checks for coronavirus relief.

with us now, former democratic congressman and member of the senate from montana, former senator, max bachus. your sense of the debate right now and what the majority leader is doing. >> well, i'm not surprised to see this happening. nothing like a deadline, this congress will finish, be the end about january 3. that forces a lot of interesting conversations both sides. sometimes that forces a solution and sometimes it forces anger, this case more anger than a solution. senator sanders is doing the right thing by advocating for the $2,000. it's needed around the country. senator cornyn just made a statement that some of the checks would go to those earning perhaps $300,000. it's not a perfect solution, but if you try to design allegelation that goes only to certain people, not to others,

it can't be done. most economists would say it's best to get the money out, gets the economy going and gets people back to work and then figure out where we are from there. >> eric: we're looking at bernie sanders right now. he's a passionate advocate for the $2,000. as a veteran of these negotiations, for so many years, senator, how do you think this will play out? do you expect there's some agreement? >> well, i do think that the ndaa, the national defense authorization bill will pass. senator sanders will relinquish his objection and it will pass or a cloture vote and that vote will sometime be friday or monday. that will pass. the question comes down to the $2,000. senator mcconnell's attempt -- he's the leader after all, joining the three issues together, the check, the $2,000 plus allegation of fraud to the commission, add to that section 230, if he adds those together,

it will make it difficult to pass the senate. it will not pass the house. that's probably the end of it unless somebody has a good solution. >> eric: we'll see how it goes a few more days. thanks. i'm eric shawn in for bill hemmer. >> georgia governor brian kemp ripping all of the distractions with the senate run-off elections now six days away. he says the stakes are too high. president trump calls on the governor to resign. we're going to be speaking to georgia's lieutenant governor, jeff dunkin' about that in moments. this is sandra smith in for neil cavuto and this is "your world." we have peter doocy in augusta on president trump and president-elect biden and both heading to georgia to get their supporters rallying. we begin with