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more than 3300 people died on wednesday alone and right now more than 125,000 people, a record number, are hospitalized with the virus. as the pace of vaccinations lag, a fast moving variant has been identified in two states. california and connecticut. earlier dr. anthony fauci addressed the slow distribution of the vaccine. >> when you have a very large operation such as trying to vaccinate an entire country with a new vaccine, there will always be bumped in the road and hiccups about that. we hope that is what this is a reflection of. we hope that we will catch up quickly with that $20 million dose projection. >> right now president trump is back at the white house returning from florida a day earlier than anticipated with no explanation why. the president's schedule change

when they said they will not vote on the biden presidential win. a sign that the pandemic is continuing to take a toll on americans all across the country. there are still ten million jobs yet to be recovered. we begin this hour on capitol hill where the nsenate is debating the veto to the military overhaul act. it was despite support from democrats, independents, some republicans, and the president. >> we heard some say that senate must send more cash to high earning households that have not seen any earning disruption. socialism for rich people is not

a way to help american families that are looking for help. >> what is the prop? you could vote no. joining me now is peter baker. republican strategist and senior advisor to the lincoln project susan del persio. is there any chance at this point that mcconnell could possibly change his mind and say okay, fine, we'll have a number down vote on this or will american vs. to wait until a new congress is sworn in to see if there is any chance of additional stimulus checks. >> it's highly unlikely that mitch mcconnell will change his mind. he has been digging into this position. he rejected the house passed

cash act. it includes the votes of 44 republicans, and there is no indication that he will allow that bill to come up. he faces conflicting pressures from president trump that wants the $2,000 checks to become law. but other members of the senate republican conference is strongly opposed to the idea of higher direct payments. many opposed the $600 payments in the latest round and there is an election coming up in georgia that seems to have forced mcconnell's hand somewhat where david purdue and kelly loeffler, one of them at least has to win. they have package it'd with two unrelated items that makes the bill guaranteed to fail. it likes highly unlikely that those $2,000 checks will be coming any time soap.

>> some democrats are saying they will delay the vote unless they hold a clean vote to raise the stimulus checks. the president keeps tweeting to pass the bigger check. between all of that you have people. american voters. mcconnell's subsequents. they are struggling right now. i know that mcconnell has said this will basically be a gift to a lot of people that did not need it. that it would go to people who are not wealthy and it raises the debt. what is mcconnell's goal here? it seems like this is just a big mess and politically it is hard to see what the benefit is for mcconnell. >> it is a big mess. we're doing the final hours of the congress, and the newly elected congress comes in to force at that point. anything done, not finished by then, has to start all over. look senator mcconnell obviously is taking the heat for the

position that a lot of republicans have. they don't think they should go to $2,000 stimulus checks. these are not necessarily targeted for people hurting the most they signed after holding it has damage it includes increased payments for unemployment. the checks are of a different category. they do not depend on whether or not you suffered anything as a result of the pandemic. what senator mcconnell is doing it taking the heat. they don't want to look like they're being ungenerous but they also have problems with the policy of it. the president of the united states made it complicated to begin with. he could have said in in the negotiations. he didn't bother to offer a view of this whatsoever until after his own administration signed off on the covid relief bill that has now been signed with the $600 checks.

after that he says hey, this has to be more. you're right as a matter of politics a lot of positioning and posturing. i don't know if it will add up for actual americans beyond the covid bill that was already signed. >> he did introduce a bill tieing the $2,000 checks to repealing liability platforms and the creation of a commission to study election issues. senator lindsey graham was on fox news this morning encouraging mcconnell to reverse course and bring up the bills separately. thereon what he said and we'll talk about it half. >> after january 3rd on all three measures and i would predict if you have a stand alone vote, it is better than 5050 that it would pass.

>>. >> i often hear senator graham talking back in the election where he felt like he had to make a choice. the phrase that he used was like asking if you want firing squad or the electric chair. i'm curious if you think it is surprising to see senator graham publicly contradicting him like this. >> there has been no bigger sycophant than lindsey graham. mitch mcconnell was angry that trump decided to blow up the deal and he said okay, you want these things, here they are, i'm

giving you all three knowing it would not get to 60 votes. no doubt. and so the president is probably saying lindsey make it happen. it's not going to happen. full stop. as peter said there will be a full restart come january 1st. and they will try to do it in the house and it will go nowhere in the senate. there is a lot riding on that? georgia. it is georgia and that is not likely but many are hoping for it. >> let's talk about the other big thing said today. they are going to object to senate votes on wednesday and it is probably not going to change anything, but it could delay things by a lot.

what does this mean moving forward and explain to us kind of what this is and what it will look like. >> yeah, it will be a messy day because holly joins a group of house republicans that will object. and they have to consider the issue. as you pointed tout is extremely unlikely to succeed. it is guaranteed to fail. in part because mitch mcconnell, the senate republican leader, they have urged fellow republicans not to go down this road. it forces a very very vote. it is their duty to accept the results of a legitimate election. it is not just from democrats, but from ben sasse.

who called this is a loaded gunpointed at the heart of legitimate self government. those are very strong words. but it shows the gravity of this issue if politicians see a political advantage to trying to overthrow the result of an lex. that could have a very significant impact down the road. >> all right, thank you to my guests. we appreciate your time. >> joining me now is democratic whip dick durbin. he is a member of the appropriations committee. thank you so much for joins us today. top republicans, like senator lindsey graham, they're calling for a separate vote and the president supports that. are you surprised that leader mcconnell will not allow an unor down vote solely on these?

>> mitch mcconnell knows that he will close this vote. if the office does not have enough republicans joining us, he has to explain to two republican candidates why they are delivering for them. they're not going to get a chance to vote. >> if mcconnell does hold firm, what options do they, having a vote on this, what options do you have next? >> none. senator mcconnell controls the bills that come to the floor. he is making the decision on the $2,000 check for families to come to the floor. the people are charging him with that as well. >> senator bernie sanders said

they will object and hold up the defense bill veto override until the cash act is voted on. do you support that? do you think that is good idea? >> in 48 hours, the veto override will pass the united states senate with a strong bipartisan vote. speeches will be given between now and then, but the reality is that this president veto'd the bill, we will override his veto no matter what any senator says. >> it seems like that could be the only option that democrats have to do about the cash act. if that is the only option why is it not doing what senator sanders said he would do to try to make sure that check gets a vote? >> we don't have the time to do it. at noon on sunday a new congress

starts. any bill like the $2,000 bill with democrats and republicans in the house dies at noon on sunday. he knows he can slow it down. he is the one decision making, the rrm leader, topping this bill from american families. >> senator holly says he is going to object. senator shaheen was on earlier. do you think on corrections to certifying the vote amount to treason? >> i will say it is a serious matter as republican leaders have said as well. to think this senator from missouri is going to try to void millions of votes by americans

for a free election and they are not just a political exercise and it is a serious, serious matter. and he styles himself as constitutional lawyer, knowing that every lawsuit filed by the trump administration on this theory has failed. even the one they took all of the way to their friendly supreme court that never saw the light of day. and yet senator holly is going to try to stop the votes of millions of americans from being counted. i hope the respects will join us to defend us in the voting process. >> still ahead, georgia voters will decide which party controls the u.s. senate. we'll get a report from a state where a whopping 2.8 million

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right now the second official case of that new potentially more contagious variant of covid-19 has been identified in the united states. it comes as the state hits a sobers milestone. what do we know about the second dais? are the officials there worried about this. >> yeah, you can add this worry on top of the pile that is already drowning health officials as they continue to worry about a number of things.

this new strain, they're reporting a 38-year-old man contracted the try rus. they do say this new strain while poeskly more contagious is not necessarily stronger or more fatal, and l.a. county health officials say whether or not it is here is just the same as they would combat the original strain. there is no strain from the front line workers or the people that should be staying home. right now l.a. county is in real trouble. pam ambulances are being diverted. health officials are dealing

with an influx of patients. there is simply no room. the icu capacity has been the figure for some time now. so they are trying to get creative about treatment. they may have to ration care. they're worried about the serve and this situation could get way course. >> i want to turn now to dr. amish. let's start with this second case of the new covid variant. we heard that the cases in

colorado and california, neither of the people identified have been traveling. when you think about that you have to assume that got it from somewhere else, how widespread do you think it could be in this point in time in the united states? >> i would not be surprised if we awe multiple states. the fact that it was fived in the u.k. doesn't mean it started there. it could have. we have a lot of people that travelled the world in this pandemic. and they don't dot type of sequences that would allow you to know this is here. so they sequence a lot of viruss. we don't do so much of that. it is always a lag. there is changes all over the country. i would not be surprised if we see more and more cases as

they're really looking for this strain. >> we know that viruss mutate all of the time. there was six different kinds, is this particular variation something that is keeping you up at night? >> it's not keeping me up at night, but it is concerning. we are seeing this be correlated with an increase in cases at the united kingdom. most of data is showing it can trance milt more effect endly. we have in move faster. we have to double down on our social distancing. this vie us have going to letter it's transmission if its that came ability of spreading more efficiently. >> you mentioned that the trump

administration projected about 20 million vaccines. 20 million people at the end of 2020. dr. fauci was asked about this. listen to this and we'll talk. >> you have to have very active participation of the states and the local authority and the local public health people to get this done. you need that but it is obviously when you lead them on their own without giving them direction or the resources they need that they can't do it in is proof positive. >> do you agree with his assessment there? how worried are you by this delay? >> i totally agree. i think this is a very foreseen complication. many thought this rollout would not go out off a hitch.

you're thinking about the biggest public health endeavor in this country if is not done by just states. they are being asked to set up programs and it's very hard to do that. they're chronically under resources and that is what we have been saying for months and months. so to me it is not surprising. i knee there would be hick check up -- hiccups. when you wed yourself to that type of time frame you're likely to fail. we see what a disaster testing is. >> we know that these vaccines, they don't last forever. they have expirations, is there

any sort of possibility when you look at the rate of vaccinations right now that if this does not pick up dramatically could we loose some of the vaccines? >> i think the bigger danger is to do so with the moderna vaccine. we have to be careble about the self life. we cannot continue at this pace. >> thank you so much for your time. >> with a stimulus increase in limbo and millions of americans at risk, we'll go to one food bank struggling to meet the demand. first we go to georgia where

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right now the final day of early voting is under way in jazz's two senate runoffs. so far voter turnout is record breaking. more than 2.8 million georgians have already cast their votes. i want to go to priscilla

thompson. i also want to bring in shawn in a thomas. what are you hearing on the ground from voter there is and what do the lines look like? >> what i'm hearing from voters today is they recognize the importance of this election and they're determined to make sure their votes are cast today even if it means staying in this long line behind me. and i should point out that it started raining here in the past couple hours but folks are prepares with umbrellas. they're bringing anything they can to be comfortable and pass the time. i asked one woom about why she

waited until today. listen to what she said. >> it was definitely fortunate for me to go ahead and make my voice heard by voting early. i looked at the day and i had this planned out as antivity first thing this morning. i didn't think there would be very many people in line. >> this election already set a new record for turnout in a run off here in georgia including kamala harris, joe biden. and they will all be here rallying supporters. >> it is crazy, we watched your live shots earlier and that line has not moved. it is kind of bitter quite. you want people to be voting but

those lines are unbelievably long. it is something to see. let me ask you what do you make of the numbers that we're seeing in terms of early voting turn out? >> i was comparing the vote counts. the total vote was 370,000 votes. those are both counties that went reliably to joe biden. right now those counties, 76% of that vote showed up in early voting. and 78% fulton county. that shows that democrats are showing up early. and in counties that are larger

counti counties, they're at about 65% of the vote that showed up. the republicans are lagging behind. it seems reliably democratic. will republicans show up on election day to take purdue and loeffler over the edge. some of that will depend on what president-elect joe biden does. they will say the senate hanks in the balance. you may need to give him a few democratic seats. he might say don't trust the system. he is still railing in georgia. so will he inspire the

republican base to turn out or will he inspire them to be mad about the system. >> when you look at the back and forth, you have governor kemp saying this is a distraction. do you think they want the president to come down there. is there a fear that this could be a distraction? >> well i think there is probably some people that are a little weary of the president depressing voter turnout, but i have to think that david purdue, kelly loe if, ffler, they have e that a lot of state houses

flipped. so the president does carry with him a level of energy. the question is how does he direct that energy? does he get the people that love him to show up? pushing aside his complaints? or does he just focus in on himself and history has shown us in the last four or five years he tends to focus in on himself. i think they will gravitate and be happy that he could be rallying the troops and get more cameras there. >> thank you both. appreciate your reporting very much. on tuesday make sure you watch our special coverage of the runof runoffs. we will bring you the results right here on msnbc. more than 50 million americans are now food insecure. we will go to a food bank where

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today we learned that 787,000 americans filed for first time unemployment last week. and while the number of claims slightly beat expectations it is still a stark reminder of how many people are in need. nearly 200 million americans continued to collect unemployment benefits and many are turning to local 20 million, they are turning to local food banks that are struggling to keep up with the demand. he joins me live from france, and the city of san francisco announced today they're extending their stay at home order. it is not going to make things easier for those people that you're meeting and seeing in line today. what are you hearing and seeing there. >> this has been a very eye

opening day, seeing people pack the bags with all of the basics. there is potatoes, onions, broccoli, we have seen people come through grabbing a conta container of milk. to see that in a city like this, as wealthy as this needing this kind of assistance, we were speaking to the director earlier about the incredible new demand they're seeing. >> people have a great deal of pride. they worked their entire life, they find themselves in a situation it is a dilemma. to come present ourselves and

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i'm lindsey reiser in for ayman mohyeldin. it's the final day of 2020, a grueling year that's been defined by the coronavirus crisis. even as we say good-bye and frankly good riddance to 2020, the pandemic is showing no signs of slowing down. a record-breaking 125,000 americans are in the hospital with coronavirus. a dire scenario for health care workers around the country. just in the last hour, president trump returned to washington, skipping his annual new year's eve party in palm beach. it does not appear to be related to this ongoing health kriecris. the white house offered no explanation as to why the president cut his vacation short. senator josh holly said he would disrupt the certification of president-elect joe biden's victory. on that very same day thousands of the president's supporters are ex