justice system manifold was accused of witness tampering and star and was convicted of lying to congress republican senator ben sasse cold that pardoning rotten to the cole. they make up a fraction of the $26.00 total pardons the president issued on wednesday and with less than a month left in office more pardons are anticipating from the outgoing president. christmas holiday celebrations in much of africa has been dampened by the crown of virus pandemic many countries are saying kovac 19 infections rise forcing governments to impose restrictions on gatherings flourished were reports from lagos nigeria where the economic fallout of the pandemic has made things even worse. christmas is in the lagos is always packed with all kinds of parties festivals and events but this is going to be more quiet than usual because of the recent spike in $1000.00 infections the government has introduced strict shows patsy's can evolve and music shows are now banned throughout the state of another major highlights of christmas shows here in nigeria is the our missing food fortunately nigeria is going through an econom

we have a group of newly elected congress people from the republican party that feel very much of the same. we are antisocialist. we are pro-business. we are pro-police. we are pro-life. and so we will fight that and fight those ideas of the squad to the end. so, if we're called the force, whatever we are called, we are just a group of newly elected republican in congress men and women that are diametrically opposed to what the squad wants to do to this country. the squad wants to fundamentally change this country. we love this country. we wants to make it better but

grasping at taken issue with comments made on twitter criticizing the policy positions of republicans in congress. honestly, the hypocrisy is astounding. if republicans are concerned about criticism on twitter, the complaint are better directed at president trump who has made a hobby out of denigrating republican senators on twitter. i fully expect to see some crocodile tears spilled on the other side of the aisle over president elect cabinet nominees. but it will be very tough to take those crocodile tears seriously. our republican colleagues are on the record supporting some of the least qualified most unethical and downright federal nominees in recent memory. many defend the context of omb director previous omb director russell allowed foreign aid to be held up for political reasons resulting in the president's impeachment. rightng now republicans in congress are looking the other way while president trump pardons a man who pled guilty to the fbi. so again it will be impossible to take these overblown complaints over president-elect widens nominees very seriously. given the urgent need to addr

justice system manifold was accused of witness tampering and starr and was convicted of lying to congress republican senator ben sasse cole that pardoning rotten to the cole. ok make up a fraction of the $26.00 targeted pardons the president issued on wednesday and with less than a month left in office more pardons aren't supported from the outgoing president. or for christians around the world it's christmas eve and in germany as in many countries one of the most popular traditions is decorating a tree millions of young pines i cut down every year to adorn living rooms up and down the land while there's growing criticism over the damaging environmental impact so some entrepreneurs are creating war sustainable alternatives. a tree is cut down. and another. every year we cut down millions of trees just so that we can have one for christmas in germany alone around $30000000.00 trees are sold over the festive season. benedict bruiser is selling christmas trees with a difference to make a difference well the idea of the regions of christmas trees is that we develop a system where we only cut the top off

situation room special report. >>> warning about more and more republicans who appear ready to do president trump's bidding when congress meets next week to satisfy the election results. at least a handful of gop senators and at least 140 house republicans are now expected to object to the electoral vote count that confirms president-elect joe biden's victory, and joining me is the former cia director, john brennan, author of "undaunted, my fight against america's enemies at home and abroad." director brennan, thanks for joining us. you tweeted that you're awarding senator josh hawley the clear winner of the most craven unprincipled and corrupt senator award. you write that he had some tough competition. why does that effort specifically earn him that number one spot, do you think? >> well, jim, i find what josh hawley has done particularly odious because he is a well educated individual, trained in the law. he knows better. but he is pandering to this base of donald trump for very selfish, politically expedient reasons. he's now fueling, i think, this widespread perception among trump's base that trump won the election

justice system manifold was accused of witness tampering and star and was convicted of lying to congress republican senator ben sasse cole that pardoning rotten to the cole. ok make up a fraction of the $26.00 total pardons the president issued on wednesday and with less than a month left in office pardons are intice appended from the outgoing president. germany a president of france has delivered a message of hope in his annual christmas day address to germany emphasizing the challenges brought on by the pandemic but also how it has brought germans together let's take a listen to our present time i have to say these are going on good. for us. and vince it is very it was a visit from the ones of them laden on that i'm going out playing the do is call it's on time it's a good. we must know of feelers for. foosball them study on kino on consult the eyes in the fire. on feelings under the mia dependent me on the in the file let's leave the mentions invade said that he does is. anomalous leave in. a bad 1st under verse having via. the stark isn't. the envy of a number of the more and. that was presiden

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i'm going to do everything i can to make sure that it doesn't happen and the congress republicans and democrats need to find a way send a message to europe that they can count on us as things stand debbie dingell trump is leaving you to pick up the pieces from a pandemic that he failed disastrously to control thousands more may die before the vaccine gets to work one in 3 adults say their families are hungry one in 4 small businesses can't stay open. a united party would struggle to get any kind of how long the situation a divided one like yours will struggle even more won't it look nobody thinks of me as this i'm not as debbie downer ok let's just because i say it as it is i don't try to be down code it's a very serious problem and we have failed to have a leader that stent we had my hat or had any kind of national plan but i think that people are tired and fatigued and they're dying and they're scared and they're ready to have a leader. you're going to see joe biden come in could together a national plan put people in charge it's not going to happen overnight all of us around the wo

i'm going to do everything i can to make sure that it doesn't happen and the congress republicans and democrats need to find a way send a message to you know they can count on us as things stand debbie dingell trump is leaving you to pick up the pieces from a pandemic that he failed disastrously to control thousands more may die before the vaccine gets to work one in 3 adults say their families are hungry one in 4 small businesses can't stay open. a united party would struggle to get any kind of handle on the situation a divided one like yours will struggle even more won't it look nobody thinks of me as this i'm not as debbie downer ok let's just because i say it as it is i don't try to be down code it's a very serious problem and we have failed to have a leader that stent we had my hat or had any kind of national plan but i think that people are tired and fatigued and they're dying and they're scared and they're ready to have a leader leave your you see joe biden come in could together a national plan put people in charge it's not going to happen overnight all of us around the world

i'm going to do everything i can to make sure that it doesn't happen and the congress republicans and democrats need to find a way to send a message to you know that they can count 'd on us as things stand debbie dingell trumbo is leaving you to pick up the pieces from a pandemic that he failed disastrously to control thousands more may die before the vaccine gets to work one in 3 adults say their families are hungry one in 4 small businesses can't stay open. a united party would struggle to get any kind of handle on the situation a divided one like yours will struggle even more won't look nobody thinks of me as this i'm known as debbie downer ok let's just because i say it as it is i don't try to be down compensate very serious problem we have failed to have a leader that stent we might get or had any kind of national plan but i think that people are tired and fatigued and they're dying and they're scared and they're ready to have a leader leave your you see joe biden come in could together a national plan put people in charge it's not going to happen overnight all of us around the w

republican colleagues? >> i think fear drives it, no question. i think there's some in congress on the republican side it's more than fear. they seem to have -- it's an ideology of this guy it's disturbing. at least on the republican side in the senate, i think it's fear. i hope that no one else would join senator hawley in this big fraud. but there's a lot of fear. and that's -- there's no question about it. they have to choose here. it's real simple, two choices, you choose democracy and the

more than 100 c0 ng resses backed by more than 100 congresses “— backed by more than 100 congresses —— republicans many attorney general but the supreme court looked at this and said no. they do not believe that texas has the legal standing to make this case. it was interesting, james, because although it was a 7—to ruling with thomas and allito dissenting, it was really 9—0 because the two have a procedural view where they say they should wait for the next step and then they will throw it out but basically, this is a blow for donald trump because he was hoping for the supreme court to back him. is that it then, for the president's legal challenges? politically, it is not the end of it but legally, very much though because the supreme court was the big one, at a party at the white house on chanukah, he had said that he had hoped that the supreme court would back him and tonight it is the christmas party in the white house so it will be a very different atmosphere and i'm sure he will continue to dispute the election results but it is hard to see where he goes from here. courts do not want to be in

paul manafort was convicted of witness tampering and stone was convicted of lying to congress. republicanator and ss -- ben sasse called the pardonings rotten to the core. with less than a month in office, more pardons are anticipated from the outgoing president. phil: let's explore this further with richard paynter, professor of law at the university of minnesota. he worked as a chief ethics lawyer in the george w. bush administration and is also vice chair of the group citizens for ethics and responsibility in washington and left the party and 2018. welcome. are these pardons rotten to the core, as senator sasse claims? >> yes. certainly the pardons connected with robert mueller investigation into russian interference in the election. several people who were material witnesses in the investigation, including michael flynn, george papadopoulos, roger stone and paul manafort, four who were pardoned and it appears they were pardoned for keeping their mouth shut. none turned over significant evidence to robert mueller. they did not cooperate with the investigation, even though michael flynn

he's interested in doing is getting himself reelected president and he's depending on the republicans in congress to stand with him and that is his plan and that is why he is not signing this bill although wet to now for the republican party that is there a bit of a reckoning around identity of the posse going up. oh sure there are a lot of republicans who are becoming exasperated with president trump he still has the support of great can probably republicans all over the country so congressional republicans have to be very careful in challenging president john because he has been until now a real hero to republicans who are in the country and they've stood with him most republicans have even doubted that biden was elected clearly they believe and trump says that the election was stolen but what we're seeing is that his influence is diminishing right now in congress and it will soon diminish among rank and file republicans though he will always have a hard core constituency that will stand with him no matter what only continuing to watch all of this play out very closely indeed bill schneider the

are we seeing a playing out in congress the stimulus bill what we will see if republicans hold onto the senate? with threei started point $3 trillion down under $900 billion, still something will get done? libby: i think it is, that is a nice parallel to draw. as an aside, if pelosi had taken on the8 trillion deal table in october potentially, she probably will be taking less ultimately, but there is enough common ground around infrastructure, around drug pricing reform, maybe even immigration where you could see house andd white mcconnell-led senate come to some kind of agreement. i am optimistic you could see that scenario play out. of course, you could see more gridlock. we have been familiar with that over the last decade. state thever importance of the georgia races because they will determine the path of fiscal policy in particular. david: just over two weeks away from now. it is always a pleasure to have you with us. ahead head of public policy for pimco. we will get the view from capitol hill about the stimulus, but also about the huge cyberattack from russia. from arkansas next

then there are three crooked former members of the republican congress, all three of whom were put away by trump's own justice department. steve stockman of texas convicted on charges of fraud and money laundering. duncan hunter of california who pleaded guilty to misusing campaign funds. and chris collins of up state new york, the first trump supporter in congress who pleaded to lying to the fbi and conspiring to commit securities fraud. he was the one who as a guest at the annual congressional picnic summer of 2017 was caught on camera phoning insider stock tips to his son from the south lawn of the white house according to the feds. also on this initial pardon list four military contractors who worked for blackwater and were all convicted of killing 14 unarmed iraqi civilians in

congress. whether republicans or democrats will have control in the senate. but he's going to have to do a fair bit at the executive let me as well and that's where these players will come in. one of the picks to watch is congre congresswoman deb haaland. she's a historic pick in this respect. she's going to be the first native-american to serve in this role. the interior department, of course, governs public lands, tribal lands. so, this is going to be a very exciting pick for many democrats and a historic one as well. so, something to watch today with biden making these announcements of his climate team, his top climate and energy advisers. meantime, of course, the president-elect is set to receive the coronavirus vaccine here this coming monday. his wife jill biden will also be receiving the vaccine. this is all part of an effort to raise public awareness and public confidence in the vaccine. biden has said repeatedly that he plans to receive the vaccine as soon as possible, if the science backed it up. of course, we've seen the fda approving the pfizer va

i'm going to do everything i can to make sure that it doesn't happen and the congress republicans and democrats need to find a way to send a message to europe that they can count on us as things stand debbie dingell trumbo is leaving you to pick up the pieces from a pandemic that he failed disastrously to control thousands more may die before the vaccine gets to work one in 3 adults say their families are hungry one in 4 small businesses can't stay open. a united party would struggle to get any kind of handle on the situation a divided one like yours will struggle even more won't it look nobody thinks of me as this i'm not as debbie downer ok let's just because i say it as it is i don't try to be down compensate very serious problem we have failed to have a leader that's done we had my hat or had any kind of national plan but i think that people are tired and fatigued and they're dying and they're scared and they're ready to have a leader. you're going to see joe biden come in could together a national plan put people in charge it's not going to happen overnight all of us around the w

justice system manifold was accused of witness tampering and stone was convicted of lying to congress republican senator ben sasse called the pardoning rotten to the cole. ok make up a fraction of the $26.00 total pardons the president issued on wednesday and with less than a month left in office pardons are intice a paid and from the outgoing president. chairman a president frank has delivered a message of hope in his annual christmas day address to the nation and for sizing the challenges brought on by the pandemic but also how it has brought germans together a stimulus into what president's trying to say the evil going on burgo rust. and vincent israel's a visit from the ones of them laden on them going out playing the cards on time it's a good. we're most of. foosball them study on kino on consult their eyes in the fire. on feelings under the mia. depending me i don't stand there in the fall let's leave the mentions and there he thus is. anomalous leaving them. at 1st and of us having via. these dark fears and. then be off on and off the mall and. that was a present from voters time i was th

justice system manifold was accused of witness tampering and star and was convicted of lying to congress republican senator ben sasse called the pardoning rotten to the cole. ok make up a fraction of the $26.00 total pardons the president issued on wednesday and with less than a month left in office more pardons are anticipating from the outgoing president. well let's explore this further with richard painter who is a professor of law at the university of minnesota he worked as the chief ethics lawyer in the george w. bush administration is also vice chair of the group of citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington and left the republican party in 2018 welcome to day w. are these pardons rotten to the core senator sas claims. yes certainly the pardons in connection with the robert muller investigation are russian and in fairness and the election we have several people who were material witnesses in that investigation including michael fay and george george papadopoulos roger stone and now with force have modified or for all been barking and it appears that their pardon for keeping their mo

forcing the congress to discount the election results from last month and declare that he has won the electoral vote they cannot do that they will not do that he needs serious and republicans in congress because when congress meets on january 6th to count the electoral vote he wants republicans to object to the electoral votes counted they were can't prejudge obeid but if they do that they'll sacrifice their own careers because it will outrage american voters the president thinks he's right and he thinks the election was stolen from him and he's waiting for republicans to stand with him. still to come on al-jazeera u.s. investigators searched the home of a suspect phone in friday's explosion and nashville. we're living like any most human and he well knew like a mentor not just. reports on the price of sizes of refugees and migrants struggling in the freezing cold in bosnia-herzegovina without shelter. hello there we've got some snow you weather the forecast for a couple of parts of here in particular particularly down towards the balkans big massive cloud here a little area of low pressure brings a very stormy weather across the southern parts of italy but the other side

words today he finally acknowledge what's been apparent for more than a month slowly more republicans in congress are accepting the fact that joe biden will be the next us president many republicans have used the time since election day to contest the results they have failed however every time speaking last night president elect biden slammed president trump and his supporters denouncing their attempt to overturn the election in the supreme court this legal maneuver was an effort by elected officials and one group of states to try to get the supreme court to wipe out the votes of more than 20000000 americans in other states it's a position so large tree we've never seen it before a position that refused to respect the will of the people refuse respect the rule of law and refuse to honor our constitution president elect joe biden there let's bring in our washington bureau chief now in his poll good evening to you we've got mitch mcconnell saying and nothing's enough we've got vladimir putin the russian president today congratulating joe biden yet president trump he remains that one voice that ref

words today he finally acknowledge what's been apparent for more than a month slowly more republicans in congress are accepting the fact that joe biden will be the next us president many republicans have used the time since election day to contest the results they have failed however every time speaking last night president elect biden slammed president trump and his supporters denouncing their attempt to overturn the election in the supreme court this legal maneuver was an effort by elected officials and one group of states to try to get the supreme court to wipe out the votes more than 20000000 americans in other states it's a position so large tree we've never seen it before it was ition they refused to respect the will of the people refuse to respect the rule of law and refuse to honor our constitution president elect joe biden there let's bring in our washington bureau chief now in his toll good evening to you we've got mitch mcconnell saying another is enough we've got vladimir putin the russian president today congratulating joe biden yet president trump he remains that one voice that refu

justice system manifold was accused of witness tampering and star and was convicted of lying to congress republican senator ben sasse called the pardoning rotten to the cole. ok make up a fraction of the $26.00 total pardons the president issued on wednesday and with less than a month left in office pardons are intice a paid and from the outgoing president. it's christmas eve here in germany and one of the festivals most popular traditions is buying and decorating a christmas tree millions of young pines a cut down every year to adorn living rooms around the country but there's growing criticism over the damaging environmental impact so some entrepreneurs are creating more sustainable alternatives. a tree is cut down. and another. every year we cut down millions of trees just so that we can have one for christmas in germany alone around $30000000.00 trees are sold over the festive season i benedict bruiser is selling christmas trees with a difference to make a difference well the idea of the regions of christmas trees is that we develop a system where we only cut the top off the tree and then have

after months of senate republicans drag their feet. congress is voting tonight on a needed covid economic relief package. after congressional leaders reached a deal on a $900 billion package yesterday. including direct payment of $600 to americans making less than 75,000 a year. and $300 a week in unemployment insurance. rental assistance, billions for small business, college and school. and extension of the federal eviction moratorium until january. president-elect called it an important down payment. i spoke with kamala harris and asked her about all of that and about making history. >> vice president-elect harris, it is so great to talk with you. thank you so much for being here. >> it's so wonderful to be with you. and be back with you. having a conversation. >> i have to ask you to start off. have you had the opportunity to everyone take it in the history that you have now made that you will be making as the first woman, first black woman, first asian american woman to be vice president of the united states? have you taken it in. >> i have

lashing out at republican lawmakers as congress deals with the mess the president actually made. kirsten is back, alice is back, bakari. the president is calling republicans weak and tired and still trying to convince people that he won. it is bizarre. why all the arrows especially targeting mitch mcconnell and the gop? why target his own party? especially when they're in such a precarious position now with the senate? >> well, the main reason is because he's pissed that he lost, right? so he's just taking it out an everyone. and it really -- it makes no sense whatsoever. and the reality is there are certainly more important things to be worried about than the fact he is putting a new name for lame-duck presidency. look, i commend members of congress, republicans as well as the democrats for coming to an agreement with regard to the ndaa as well as covid relief and i think they should be commended. they should not be insulted. they do not have a death wish. they do not -- they're not lame. they are not cowards. they're doing the work of the american people and making sure that cov

only 24% think the average republican in congress is the better model. and there's yet more developments today in the battle for the white house.

so if congress wanted and the republicans in congress wanted to give african-americans the right to vote, they couldn't necessarily do that in south carolina or massachusetts without passing a constitutional amendment. but they could do it in washington, d.c. a group of abolitionists, led by frederick douglass met with andrew johnson trying to talk with him about getting suffrage broadly throughout the nation but also in washington, d.c. frederick douglass had thought the meeting had gone fairly well. him and the delegation left and afterward, just after they left, johnson was reported by a couple of people at the meeting to have said this about frederick douglass. those blank sons of blank thought they had me in a trap. i know that blank douglass, he's just like any other blank -- >>> we'll leave this program here to take you live to capitol hill. senator ron johnson handles the government affairs committee. this is live coverage on c-span3. >>> good morning, this hearing is called to order. i want to first thank and welcome the witnesses for your time and testimony. let me start the he

for many people if you look at the difficulty now of agreeing a stimulus package with the republicans in congress you can expect much help from them can you even in this process i'm donald trump hasn't exactly shown much empathy for the suffering in the bereavement that's taken place in such large numbers across america i think was the right leader you will you will get enough votes to be able to do what we have to do i think he views. it seems senator mcconnell recognized that people in kentucky are you can't be how you can be in any of your states that when some people that you represent and not understand how scared people are how much doubt they need but they're paying her attorney telling her they will want you to fail so they can come back in 4 years time and say hey look what a lousy job the democrats did you know i'm not a cynic like you are i actually think that there are people that want to get elected and both parties because they want to help the people they represent so there may be a few that are oh you can't let them win but i think that there are a lot of people that are seeing th

members of congress, republicans and democrats, want to make sure that small businesses that got those loans are able to deduct them from their taxes. the treasury secretary is making one last final stand opposing that we will see, we don't think it will hold anything up. there is so much support for the small businesses being able to deduct it the two other issues that are remains, private school vouchers during the pandemic, and an extension of the paid family leave program. we are hearing that thing -- people are still optimistic. let's listen to the democratic leader on the senate floor moments ago. >> there are a few issues outstanding. i am quite hopeful that we are closing in on an outcome it appears, that barring a major mishap, the senate and house will be able to vote on legislation as early as tonight. >> it is when not f an hour, several hours from now or later tonight. that is the question. members are optimistic they will get across the finish line and pass legislation the house would vote first. when they do vote, the senate would follow suit. will they finish it tonight

a discussion about republican priorities for the coming 117th congress with representatives mike johnson of louisiana and jim banks of indiana. this is 45 minutes. >> i'm very glad to have the outgoing and incoming chair mann of the republican committee here this morning to talk with us about the coming congress and their priority. republican committee as many of you know has been an influential center of conservative thinking and policies for years. scholars often work with the committee on major issues. i intensified for the committee and size them on issues concerning food security and policy and we've had our china scholars. the emerging young leadership of the conservative movement in the united states and we are very pleased to have the outgoing chairman mike johnson of louisiana and incoming chairman of indiana. mike johnson from louisiana and jim banks from indiana. i'm going to do a quick introduction of them and ask questions but we will take questions from the audience. we will put them up on the chat box although i do have a bunch of my own questions as well the chairman elec

what is your sense of the republican congress right now in terms of getting stuff done? when we think about the republican congress in the senate in particular, that's the one we're focussed on because that's where republicans actually have some power. but as usual they're drawing a bright red line in the sand, but they're doing it over the wrong issue. if they're going to try to draw attention themselves, it should have been over what josh holly said the other day saying instead of $600 relief, it should be $1,200. they are making this big deal over, it is really irrelevant. they should just allow that to go through. but if they wanted to do something positive for the country, they would have been trying to get a bigger relief package through that gets cash out into the hands of ordinary people. >> although, i would say, chris, before i come to you, michael, chris, what do you make of the total price tag right now. democrats have been going to something closer to $3 trillion. republicans closer to $1 trillion. what about that aspect of it? >> these are extraordinary tim

forcing the congress to discount the election results from last month and declare that he has won the electoral vote they cannot do that they will not do that he needs serious or republicans in congress because when congress meets on january 6th to count the electoral vote he wants republicans to object to the electoral votes counted they were can't prejudge obeid but if they do that they'll sacrifice their own careers because it will outrage american voters the president thinks he's right and he thinks the election was stolen from him and he's waiting for republicans to stand with him. federal investigators in the u.s. is searching a home as they look for clues into a christmas day explosion in nashville 3 people were hurt and around 40 buildings damaged john hendren reports now from nashville. in what could be a crucial break federal investigators searched the home of a person of interest in the nashville christmas by the role of the man identified as 63 year old anthony quinn warner is not yet clear the top prosecutor in the case has his own name for whoever is responsible for this this is ultimate scrooge on christmas morning instead of writing joined share decided to

the democrats, the republicans in congress were rolled over by his oratory. the legacy is the republican party, the party of fiscal responsibility has become the party of massive deficits. the only president in modern times who has balanced the budget was william jefferson clinton. how do you account for reagan's complete lack of control in spending? guest: it was not a complete lack of control, and bill clinton did that with the assistance of the republican congress led by newt gingrich. newt gingrich really forced balanced budgets for several years. clinton never campaigned on balanced budgets, never had an interest in balanced budgets, but wanted to win reelection so he cooperated with the republican congress. as far as reagan goes, he said after his presidency, the two greatest ribs that -- regrets in his presidency was that he did not do more about the budget and abortion. on the other hand, when he became president in 1980, the military establishment was a disaster. you had gis on food stamps. we didn't have replacement parts for many of our planes and h

so if congress, wanted and the republican congress wanted to give african americans the right to vote they could necessarily do that in south carolina, or massachusetts without passing a constitutional amendment. but they could do it in washington d.c.. and a group of abolitionists, led by frederick douglass met with andrew johnson, tried to talk to him about getting suffrage, raleigh throughout the nation, but also in washington d.c.. and frederick douglass, had thought the meeting had gone fairly well, and the delegation had left. afterward, just as just after they left, johnson is reported by a couple people at the meeting, to have said this about fredericton glass. those blank sons a blank. thought they had me in a trap. i know that blank douglas. he's just like any other blank. i would sooner cut a white man's throat than not. >> pretty explicit right. >> maybe it's just a one-off, well congress voted to give african americans the right to vote in 1866. and johnson, vetoes it. and he explains, and this is his words, johnson says entirely disregarding the wishes of the people of t

it is one of those things that gets passed by democratic congresses, republican congresses. and one reason he blew it up, he didn't want them renaming bases named after confederate generals. so the congress should be able to do something about that soon, hopefully, especially since it's christmas, but, you know, these other things are a little up in the air and time is running out because of basically the congressional session is going to run out on january 3rd. >> yeah, which raises the question, eli, like what happens next? the picture we're looking at on capitol hill is a live picture, a pro forma session gavelled in. but what do you make of the democrats' move today to vote on that $2,000 stimulus check? >> well, shawna said it was a gift the president gave to democrats where he endorsed their position where they've been all along for larger stimulus check. it makes sense they'd say let's do this. that nancy pelosi would retweet the president, his little video and say, all right, here, we'll call your bluff. let's do $2,000 checks. obviously, that's where mitch mcconnell

president trump back on the golf course today, lashing out at republican lawmakers as congress deals with the mess the president actually made. so, alice, trump is resentful, stirring the pot, calling republicans weak and tired and still trying to convince people that he won. it is bizarre. why all the arrows, especially targeting mitch mcconnell and the gop? why target his own party? >> the main reason is he's pissed that he lost and he's taking it out on everyone. it makes no sense whatsoever. the reality is there are certainly more important things to be worried about than the fact he is putting a new name for a lame duck presidency. and look, i commend members of congress. republicans as well as the democrats for coming to an agreement with regard to the ndaa as well as covid relief, and i think they should be commended. they should not be insulted. they do not have a death wish. they're not lame. they are not cowards. they're doing the work of the american people and making sure that covid relief gets in the pockets of the american people. and if the president really wanted $2,00

you have got people in congress, particularly republicans in congress also not focused on this. they're happy to tweet about anything else, but when it comes to this they're awfully silent. what's sobering to me is what dr. redfield say in the clip. not only are we seeing this rate of 9/11 deaths every day but it will continue that way for the next 60 to 90 days. is there anything that can be done to stem that fact which appears to be a fact? >> i'm glad you asked that, willie. there are and it's going to be hard to hear so let me start with some good news. the good news here for all americans, especially parents of young children, we're seeing emerging evidence from places like england and korea that in fact school-based transmission does not appear to be happening. that schools should be reopening, especially elementary schools. young children are not effective at transmitting this virus relative to adults so that's a really, really good thing, willie. that's something that we can open up and open up safely and feel like that's not contributing to this outbreak. let me just gi

now so thoroughly infected the republican party that 18 attorneys general used official resources of states to endorse this cockamamy theory, and that 103 members of congress, many of whom were elected in these states, signed onto this. that's what shook me. >> it's worth pointing out there's 12 republican members whose votes they're asking to throw out that were elected by those voters on those votes. >> yeah. look, i was very public when mike kelly brought his lawsuit in pennsylvania to throw out the votes there. i questioned whether or not mike kelly should be sworn in as part of the new congress because if he doesn't think his election was legitimate and thinks it should be thrown out, i think the house administration committee should look into that prior to him being sworn in. at the time that seemed like an outlier position for one member of congress to take, but, boy, to see 103 members of congress take this position and a dozen from these states, there is something fundamentally wrong with the republican party. >> yeah. i'm really struggling to be precise in the rhetoric i use here because i -- it's so grave, i don't want to sound nuts and i don't

justice system manifold was accused of witness tampering and star and was convicted of lying to congress republican senator ben sasse called the pardoning rotten to the cole. ok make up a fraction of the $26.00 torchwood pardons the president issued on wednesday and with less than a month left in office more pardons are intice appended from the outgoing president . german a president of france has delivered a message of hope in his annual christmas day address to germany emphasizing the challenges brought on by the pandemic but also how it has brought germans together let's take a listen to our presidents time i have to say the evil going on burgo vast. and vincent israel was a visit in front of them laden on them going out playing the do is call it's on time insisted the most snow of. foosball him study on kino on comes out the highs in the fire. on fearless under the mia depending me i don't stand there in the fire let's leave the mentions invade separately thus is must be anomalous laden. under verse having via. the stark isn't when they are fine and the more and does it. that was president fran

. >> democrat eric swalwell facing a growing storm of criticism from his republican colleagues in congress over an fbi probe into an alleged chinese spy he had ties to several years ago. >> this man should not be on the intel committee. he is jeopardizing national security. >> until he comes forward and has a thorough and complete explanation for what happened, than he should not sit on the house intelligence committee and have access to classified information. >> house speaker nancy pelosi waved off the matter today, saying both democrat and republican leaders were briefed in the past, simultaneously, about this threat. >> i don't have any concern about mr. swalwell. i do think that it's unfortunate that mr. mccarthy is trying to make an issue of this when his -- we all found out at the same time. >> we still don't know who briefed congressional leadership. at the time, james comey was the director of the fbi, and a former senior staffer on the house intel committee tells fox news comey briefing would have been "standard operating procedure." >> and he threw his republican colleagues on h

justice system manifold was accused of witness tampering and star and was convicted of lying to congress republican senator ben sas code that pardoning rotten to the cole. ok make up a fraction of the $26.00 tortured pardons the president issued on wednesday and with less than a month left in office pardons aren't supposed to from the outgoing president. and every one of that top breaking story for your britain and the european union have struck a brics a trade deal at the 11th hour agreeing terms just days before the end of the 12 month transition period the precise details are still to emerge but both in your chase and sort of on the line and british prime minister virus johnson hailed the agreement as a huge victory for the u.k. parliament is set to ratify the deal on december 30th. nor changing the news up next date every business we've typed ferguson will take a closer look at the financial implications of the brics a trade agreement phil gayle will bring in the news headlines next hour if you can't wait until then as always our website d.w. dot com you can follow us on social media too at day

move forward with the policy initiatives and we publish the conservative playbook for the republican led congress, all of that is grounded in those core principles. and when we p have a new member developing these, i just got elected the vice chair of the republican conference and i'm talking with the leadership about how we want to have some seminars to help them think through what this looks like and some of them are coming in and have never been legislated before. they never had to put their philosophy into practice and so we want to help them through that. by doing that i think we are going to train a new generation of leaders in congress and it's going to be effective in the years ahead. >> representative banks, representative johnson mentioned those tenets and i'm going to ask about two of them, one is government where some of the conservatives might say president trump challenge did as a desire to the kind of national industrial policy and one of the areas that has come up is in the family policy with family leave mandates and things of that sort. another area that is happening right now,

president trump, members of congress, republicans who say they are open to this could obviously do more to press mcconnell or find a compromise. instead, they are focused on this. you can see the headlines showing more republicans joining trump's authoritarian attempt to steal an election. now tonight's news that you see here is something of a breakthrough or a new low in trump's demands for this fruit l attack on results because for the first time, tonight, i can tell you a republican senator is joining what had only been a plo plot in donald trump's mind and rogue house republicans. the idea at the last minute they would challenge the certification of biden's win on the floor of congress. senator holly is announcing he actually will be the very first senator who wants to go this far, who wants to drag this out an extra little bit and object to biden's win next wednesday. that's typically a congressional formality. i want to be clear before i go further tonight because part of this story matters but part of it is procedurely irrelevant. what is happening here will not impact the result

that's what republicans in congress were not willing to do. republicans, meanwhile, what i'm hearing is silence. i have not heard from hardly any of my republican sources all day, late last night, and that is extremely telling that they are in a very difficult position right now. senate republican leader mcconnell, he had to persuade and cajole his republican conference to even accept $600 in a stimulus check. in a closed-door lunch a couple weeks ago, he said that the reason that check is necessary is because down in georgia, senators david perdue, kelly loeffler were getting hammered over the fact that they were not discussing a stimulus check. so he got his numbers online and on board. where they go next, it is completely unclear. pelosi is going to try to hold republicans to account. she's going to try to pass a $2,000 stimulus bill tomorrow. it's going to take one republican just to object. that means a republican has to fly back or drive to d.c. to object that. that is the next action that we're going to be watching very closely. are repu

there are some in congress, republican and democrats, like elise ste panic, ilhan omar from minnesotaut the same age group as marco, decided they're waiting until constituents get it. there's governor larry hogan of maryland in his 60s that had bouts of cancer, decided to wait until elderly constituents and medical staff get it. i think he has gotten a lot of heat from posing for that picture together with a stupid tweet about how his arm needed a tan. now somehow trying to do cya and justify the fact that unlike other politicians he did skip the line, though he represents a state that has an overproportion, disproportion amount of elderly and people effected. one of the hardest-hit by covid. it is outrageous, hypocritical, and makes no sense. >> anna, great to see you. thank you for joining us. hope you had a merry christmas and happy new year to you. >> thank you. same to you. >> joining us from florida. >>> it is the top of the hour. i am brianna keilar. after months of uncertainty, days of drama, relief for millions of americans is finally on its way. last night president trump si

but various provisions ended mid to late june, and congress, republicans refused to do anything.house passed what was called the heroes act to try to keep money flowing intohe economy, but the senate -- talking again about the power -- would not bring it up. so we are now six months later into the year, the disease did not just disappear and looks like we're going to face this for months to come, and it is very apparent that we need another large amount of money. that is where the additional ofey, that $2000, would be enormous benefit. amy: also included in the bill, ,hese tax breaks to the wealthy including increased military spending for about $5 billion. and americans for tax fairness put out a report saying the collective wealth of billionaires in the u.s. has jumped by close to $1 trillion, nine hundred $31 billion, since mid-march. the report found 22 million u.s. adults reported not having enough food to eat. more than half of those adults had children in their households. nearly 62 million u.s. residents lost work between march and september and yet this massive windfall