abby, we really feel for you.orry that we are out of time right now, i will put this out on social media, your story, because, again, i think people are really interested in everything that you have had to endure and i'm sorry that you have gone through owl of this. dr. gaylis, thank you for all of the information. cnn's coverage continues right after this. >>> very good tuesday morning to you, i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm poppy harlow. let's begin this hour with the breaking news. one day after the first covid-19 vaccinations in the u.s. began a new chapter in our fight against the virus, deliveries of the pfizer vaccine are set to ramp up in a big way. hundreds of sites across the country will receive thousands of doses for front line health care workers. cnn will be there live as those shipments arrive and we will bring you the latest. >>> also just moments ago big news from the fda, releasing its analysis of drug maker rn

. >> nine-year-old abby's mom sent us a know saying abby, like most has struggled but that watching thettle brother are doing okay. i think a big part of that is due to the fact that she gets so many of her questions answered by watching the news. knowledge empowers her to dismiss many of her fears. >> we asked her mom if we could give abby a call. >> this is norah o'donnell. i wanted to call and say thank you for watching the news. i love at nine years old, you already love journalism. >> how is your family doing? >> abby's doctor, dr. hucker treats covid patients at massachusetts general hospital. what we didn't know is that her dad was listening. >> okay. he's on the phone right now too. >> hi, doctor. >> one reason she watches is to learn all she can about the pandemic. she heard protective gear was in short supply, she offered her tooth fairy money to the hospital. she sometimes goes weeks without hugging him as he quarantines to keep the family safe. abby's dad is her hero. >> how is it going? >> busy. i was just in the er. it's like a zoo down there. >> i'm from a family of docto

>> good. >> o'donnell: abby's dad, dr.hucker, treats covid patients at massachusetts general hospital. tell your dad that we are so proud of the work he does. what we didn't know is abby's dad is listening. >> okay. he's on the phone now. >> o'donnell: hey, doctor, how are you? >> i'm good. thank you so much. >> o'donnell: one reason abby watches us every night is to learn all about the pandemic. when she heard protective gear was in short supply, she offered her tooth fairy money to her dad's hospital. she sometimes goes weeks without hugging him as he quarantines to keep the family safe. >> hi, guys! >> o'donnell: abby's dad is her hero. how's it going? >> it's busy. >> o'donnell: yeah. >> exploding, i would say. i was in the e.r., it's like a zoo down there. >> o'donnell: i'm from a family of doctors so i admire so much what you do and the care that you provide people. >> i really appreciate that. i would say what you do matters a ton, too. so thank you for what you do and how you do it and how you portray this crisis.

abby, you and harper have a perfect relationship.t everyone to know that. i want to marry her. i'm going to ask her dad for his blessing. way to stick it to the patriarchy! kristen stewart and mackenzie davis play a happy couple whose relationship is tested when they go home for the holidays. the venue is the affluent family home of harper, played by davis. the snag is that harper hasn't come out to her parents, despite having told her girlfriend that she already did. so abby is introduced as harper's flatmate, with a promise that all will be revealed in due course. naturally, nothing goes smoothly in this film from clea duvall, who delivers a consistently funny comedy with an excellent cast. stewart has never been better. and supporting standouts include mary steenburgen as the controlling, oblivious mother and schitt‘s creek star daniel levy as abby‘s fiercely feminist friend. yes, iamjohn, abby's heterosexual ex—boyfriend. and i have come to get her back. isee. well, it would have been nice to have known you were coming, but since

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a lot to talk about starting with correspondent abby phillip and john dean. john, does the ruling mean that the president trump's efforts overturning the election are completely over? >> i would think so. there are a couple of court cases not likely they'll get to the supreme court again. i think this is the last of the court cases. >> abby, as we pointed out earlier, trump says before the election, he thought it would end up to the supreme court and it is important to have sign justices seated, that's why he rushed amy coney barrett through. what happens now? >> he does not get his wish. i think as john just said is pretty much over. even if some of these lower court cases somehow make their way to higher courts, the problem for the president is that he lost so many states that he's behind by so electoral votes that no one state is going to reverse what we are seeing here and the entire country will see on monday when the electoral college meets. this is over, the president does not get to have this supreme court weigh in on this because the court knows that

lots to talk about with cnn's abby phillip. also, john dean. john, does the ruling mean president trump's efforts to overturn the election in the courts are completely over? >> i would think so. while, there are a couple lower-court cases, it's not likely they could ever get to the -- up to the supreme court, again. so, i think this is the last of the court cases. >> abby, as we point out earlier, trump said before the election he thought it would end up in the supreme court. he thought it was important to have nine justices seated. it was one of the justifications, of course, for rushing the amy coney barrett confirmation through. >> as john said, it's pretty much over. and even if some of these lower-court cases may, somehow, make their way to higher courts. the problem for the president is that he's lost so many states, he's behind by so many electoral votes, that no one state is going to reverse what we are seeing here. and what the entire country, frankly, will see on monday when the electoral college meets. so, this is over. the president

jim acosta, abby philip, kaitlan collins and jeremy diamond.im, as our chief white house correspondent you were there for the obama years, and the trump years. trump's anti-media rhetoric, his words were disturbing and it bled moo actions. he tried to take away funding from pbs, moved against amazon, making moves suspected against jeff bezos because he owns "the washington post." he took action, his doj took action against at&t when at&t was moving to buy cnn and the rest of time warner. it goes on and on. lawsuits against tv stations, et cetera. these were not just words. they were actions. what stood out to you the most? >> i mean, i think all of those are perfect examples of what president trump was trying to do, trying to accomplish during his four years in office. i think what he was trying to accomplish is move the united states in the direction of what i describe as state supported media. we see this happen in other parts of the world where you see countries like russia and so on drift away from having some semblance of a free and indepe

abby phillip is back with us.ackerackerman, served as sl prosecutor for watergate and evan perez, senior justice correspondent. evan, first to you. what statement is the president making tonight with this? >> the president is saying repeatedly that essentially special counsel robert mueller's investigation over reached. he called it a hoax which is a word he's used to describe this investigation since the beginning, kate. one of the things when you step back and look, especially at the two russia investigation figures here, paul manafort and roger stone, the president is essentially rewarding these two men for refusing to cooperate with prosecutors. in the case of paul manafort, according to the mueller report, he spoke to another witness, rick gates, and said he had conversations with the president's lawyers and had been told that they were going to be taken care of. in the end, that's one of the reasons why prosecutors said that, even though he signed a plea agreement, he ended up not providing full cooperation

joining us now, cnn political correspondent, abby phillip, and cnn political analyst, david gregory. abby, pardons seem to be where his mind is, not the 3,600 new deaths reported overnight. >> reporter: that's right. and in addition to pardons, of course, the election. but, i think, the thing about pardons is that president trump, for years, has viewed the pardon power as one of the things that he relishes the most about the job. and you can see why. he's the only person who has the ability to do it. and there's nothing anybody else can do about it. he can really wield it however he wants. and i think that we can expect that he will do that. there have been some pardons of people, you know, in the vein of, you know, alice johnson, a grandmother who was jailed for a nonviolent crime years ago, and who has become kind of the face of criminal justice reform. and i think we may -- we may see some more of those, but underlying those, i think you'll see a lot of political allies of the president's, conservatives and others who the president believes for whatever reason had been wronged by

. >> abby's dad is a doctor who treats coronavirus patients.eks as he quarantines to keep the family safe. abby watches the news every night so she can learn what her dad is going through in other people as well. her mom sent a note to cbs news saying that abby has struggled this year but the news keeps her going so nora called her to thank her and her dad. >> okay. he is on the phone right now. >> hey, doctor, how are you? >> i'm good. i'm good. thank you so much. >> knowledge and power is -- to dismiss anymore of her fears. >> when abby heard protective gear was in short supply she offered her tooth fairy money to her dad's hospital. shernell dad is her hero. >> her dad is a hero but you know what? i think abby is too. that's so great. very cool. >>> no kidding. time now is 5:55. not playing by the rules. >> in the next half hour on, the debate over fine increases in the east bay and why some say it's the obvious way to get businesses in line. >> she gave up her tooth fairy money. that's the sweetest thing. we need positive stories like that

. >>> we have ron brownstein and any phillip joining us to discuss abby, today i'm learning that the president and mike pence met yesterday for an hour, not long after trump wrote that pence should do more to fight for him. what do you make of this dynamic between the president and vice president? >> i think this is the toughest spot mike pence has been put in yet in the trump presidency. he's worked really hard over the last four years to avoid

abby. >> thank you so much tom. i had to throw on my ugly christmas sweater. because i hadn't seen tom for about seven months and in he rolls and is ugly christmas sweater, his quarantine hair and we were able to bond over ugly christmas sweaters. this is so cute. >> thank you. a lot of hot glue is on the sweater. >> it's perfect but it's battery-operated. if it doesn't rain, hopefully will be good. >> that's in the next segment. speaking of things sparkly and fabulous, how about this year's fox nation christmas tree, the red, white and blue. it pays homage to the all-american theme. abby, you also have a special come of the history of the christmas tree. >> i do. thank you so much. we try to time this out perfectly. i was kind of thinking what we would all go out and buy our christmas tree as soon thanks giving is over. why do we do not? when we put up a christmas tree in our house, i actually went to christmas tree farm in colorado. take a look. >> so then what kind of tree is a christmas tree? offer, and evergreen? in colorado it's the colorado blue spruce

abby phillip, cnn, washington. >> 2020 really overdelivered in terms of news.can take a break next year. >> one month of 2020 overdelivered. >> when you look at all of that stuff that abby packed into that piece, it is astonishing to look back and think of all the things we reported on this year. >> it's incredible. three days ago. >> that's right. and "new day" continues right now. >>> the house of representatives voting to increase stimulus checks. >> every senate democrat is for it, but unfortunately we don't have the republicans on board. >> i've just been waiting for congress to make some decisions that would be in the best interest of so many americans like myself. >>> they've encountered road blocks. >> we have enemies in america. they know we're vulnerable in these transitions. >> he's effectively scraped off that top layer of leadership. that is the layer that has been corrupted. >> announcer: this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >>> good morning, everyone, welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is

>> is that a good comparison, abby? >> well, i mean, for starters, you know, there's been so much misinformation on the republican side about why the russia investigation began in the first place, but let's remember that it was the conclusion of the united states intelligence community that russia interfered in the 2016 election and there were concerns within the fbi about what kind of connections might have existed between the trump campaign and that effort. now, the issue at hand was something of -- i think most people would agree -- urgent national security matters. i mean, it wasn't about targeting a specific individual and their tax activities, but rather looking into something that had implications for the entire country. i think that is the biggest difference. the issues with hunter biden and his taxes, that may or may not bear out into anything, but there's no reason to believe at the moment that this investigation which apparently has been ongoing for quite some time, would not continue to be ongoing. and beyon

and we talked to ken melissa ordway about what it is like to play abby newman. >> i was a huge fan of the show. to the point where i think as a kid, i was part of the added family. my mom wants to show every single day. to get to be a part of the legacy really is a dream come true. i would play barbie and marbury dolls will be victor and nikki. to get to work with these legends is really an incredible thing. >> the young and the restless first aired back in 1973. you can watch it weekdays at 11:00 right here on kpix 5. >>> coming up next, the top streaming music of 2020 according to spotify. and, we are working to bring you the positive stories during this difficult time. >>> spotify is wrapping up 2020 with its list of the top music streamed by its 320 million users around the world. the most streamed artist of 2020 is bad buddy. he had more than 8.3 billion streams following him are great, you swirled in the weekend. billie eilish is spotify's most streamed female artist for the second year in a row followed by taylor swift, ariana grande, doing labor and spotify says in 2020 there

abby phillip.hanks a lot. >>> next, protestors, some of them armed, outside the home of the michigan secretary of state over the weekend. yelling because michigan certified president-elect biden's victory over president trump by more than 146,000 votes because that's how many votes he won by. up next, i'll talk with jocelyn benson about what happened and what it means going forward. an. why don't you call td ameritrade for a strategy gut check? what's that? you run it by an expert, you talk about the risk and potential profit and loss. could've used that before i hired my interior decorator. get a strategy gut check from our trade desk. ♪ there's nothing like a crisp refreshing sam adams boston lager. a perfect balance of malt & hops... sorry. i was gonna buy that six-pack. ah, ten bucks. that includes mine. yep, ok. ♪ or psoriatic arthritis, little things can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis

senate. >> abby, this is upside down world. it is upside down world. i mean, the idea that this is a winning strategy for the base, yeah, if you like losing. i mean, you know, he didn't win the presidency with it and i don't know what's going to happen in georgia, but i do think it bears repeating. what these lawyers, these pro-trump lawyers, sydney powell and lynn wood are telling people because if you think the president sounds unhinged and delusional, wait until you hear what they said yesterday at their rally. >> i think i would encourage all georgians to make it known that you will not vote at all until your vote is secure. >> they have not earned your vote. don't you give it to them. why would you go back and vote in another rigged election? for god sakes. >> okay. what's the winning strategy there? >> well, it's a good question. why would their supporters go back and vote in an election that is supposed to be rigged? it just highlights how much this does not make any sense, just from the get-go. i mean, there are all kinds of other races in whic

and abby lowell was his lawyer. lobbyist, you have eliot brody helping to coordinate all of these and from court documents. like i said there is so many questions raised because what is unclear is the scheme is laid out and the people we spoken to. it is unclear who was doing the communicating and what this specific communications were. there are still a lot of unanswered questions and we'll keep digging. >> i think you misspoke on the name of the person in california. it is sandford diller. >> it is barry. >> sorry, my bad. >> thank you for that correction. >> pamela. thank you very much. >> appreciate it. >>> we somehhowed you how gop i protecting the senate majority, kyung la looks at this. >> reporter: 60 miles west of atlanta sits harrison, georgia. here lunch is served at a size of disbelieves. >> reporter: who do you think won in nevaovember? >> i honestly think trump did. >> reporter: for some, supporters of the president is impossible to think of the upcoming january's senate run offs with continued misinfo

abby, biden wouldn't get pinned down on whether he'll name a person of color as the defense secretary or attorney general but promised that when all the cabinet announcements are made he'll have the most diverse cabinet in american history. he is certainly facing a lot of pressure on this front isn't he? >> yes, absolutely. it is partly because this is a president who more than perhaps any other owes the support of, you know, groups like black voters and women and latino voters for his coming into office. but one of the things about joe biden is that he, over the summer, had actually already committed to naming a woman as vice president and i had heard from friends of his that there is a little bit of hand wringing about him boxing himself in in that way so early on in the process. now it ultimately i think many democrats would agree it ended up the way they liked for it to have ended up. at the same time you're seeing biden being more hesitant to being boxed in wanting to keep his options open as much as possible so he can have the flexibility to move the puzzle pieces around. this i

john harwood, you have years of economic reporting, john harwood and abby phillip back with us.a large stimulus package that's for when he gets into office. we are starting to hear some democrats more willing to pass something in a lame duck if that's still even possible. >> well, john, i think the consensus among economists in both parties is that some sort of relief bill is urgently needed now because millions of americans are seeing their unemployment benefits, special unemployment benefits enacted under the federal action this year expire, they are at risk of mass evictions given the eviction protections which are also expiring, state and local governments are broke because the curtailment of economic activity has cut back their revenues and so just as schools are struggling to figure out how to stay open, much less try to close some of the gaps in education created by the closures this year, so many students have fallen behind and states and local governments don't have money to pay for those things. so some action now is highly urgent. that doesn't mean that it's necessari

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the democrats are going to steal this election but go out and vote and you know piggy-back on what abbying, the message from the president tonight he said he talked about the potential lost of two great senators. it is almost as if he wants to blame the republicans running the state of georgia if these senators lose. so he can say it is their faults and not mine. the stakes here are so huge. the president is not talking about that at all. control of the senate and control of the congress. joe biden if he wants to have a robust agenda. he would like a democratic senate. >> the next four years really depend on what happens in this election. it is huge. the president makes it all about h him. he can't seem to make his mind because he likes to punish republicans. both from a southern state from the republican president just lo lost. is this basically a sequel to the general election? obviously getting people to vote if it is not in the general election has always been challenging. >> yeah, it is a sequel in some sense but you hit it right on the head. run-offs are difficult to get people to

abby, the supreme court move is curious. the texas attorney general wants other battleground states to overturn their legitimate findings. and he is willing to go to the supreme court and make this last-ditch effort at doing this. and somehow, he has persuaded, or president trump has, i should say, 17 others to join with this. every legal expert we can find say that it's specious and absurd. >> and it is. i mean, just from a pure logical perspective, this case is basically arguing that any state can say, i don't like the way another state is administering their elections, even though federal elections for president and those federal offices are administered by states and have been for a very long time. and they can just go to the supreme court and say, i don't like it, and i want to throw out all of their votes and have this decided either by the state legislatures or by the house of representatives. it's a completely absurd argument. and it was really encapsulated by, you know, senator cornyn, from texas, basically saying,

josh dawsey joins us now along with cnn correspondent, abby phillip. josh, i have to say. the president attacking the republican governor of arizona. the republican governor of georgia. suggesting the doj and fbi are in on some scam to rig the election. you have done this deep dive. talked to so many people inside the white house. what have you learned? >> yeah. the president is particularly frustrated with brian kemp, the governor of georgia. he believes he made brian kemp's political career by endorsing him. as we reported in our story this weekend, he called kemp recently and for not helping him more in georgia. he is also unhappy with ducey, in arizona. what happened essentially is the president thought he was going to win these states. as election results came in election night, he becauwas wat the results and he believed he was going to win. and then, more and more ballots came in and he clearly did not win some of these states that have been certified. they've lost case after case after case, in state after state after state. and they are making a lot of these argum

but abby lowell was among the people involved because he represented hue barris.olved. there's a california billionaire who died in 2018. but there's a lot of questions that haven't been answered. we know from this case that someone reached out to the white house counsel's office making sure that the clemency request went to the right person. and there are these e-mails, but we are still waiting for more information. representatives for abby lowell, for broidy and hugh barris say they have no indication they are chin clients are under investigation or there is any wrongdoing. they spoke to doj and they gave no indication that he did anything wrong. doj released a statement saying no government official is the subject or target of this investigation. no charges have happened, and we don't even know this is an active or closed case. but there are certainly a lot of questions raised, erin, about this scheme that doj has been investigating, something that happened early on in the trump administration. this comes as there's a lot of focus on who the president will pard

>> reporter: well, abby, you mentioned the trucks. they are critical. we are outside the pfizer facility. this is the loading base. we just saw this fedex truck. fedex and ups is carrying the shipments, moving out of the bay. we know all morning fedex employees behind the scenes have been taking vials of vaccine from deep freezers, 60,000 vials in each freezer, 190 vials on a tray, putting them in a box filled with dry ice and loading them tonnon to the trucks. this is a key spot in the vaccine distribution network, and things are just going here for this massive logistical movement. trucks will likely go the airports and distribution hubs and the vaccine deliveries will go to 600 locations across the country. those are places like hospitals, pharmacies, cvs and wall greens. the deliveries will not begin until tomorrow morning. the bulk of the shipments starting on tuesday. but you can't understate how incredible this is. less than a year since we first found out about the virus and now the vaccine shipments are on the move. >> it is an absolute medical

abby phillips looks at the stories that rocked washington in 2020. >>> 2020 was a presidential election year for the history books. an unpredictable democratic primary, a pandemic, and a president refusing to concede. here are washington's most unforgettable stories of 2020. . a brazen assassination within days of the new year. >> they are promising revenge. >> the operation carried out after a president under siege. president trump had already become one of the just three u.s. presidents ever to be impeached. during his reelection fight under a cloud. >> if 67 senators, two thirds of the u.s. senate vote to convict, he will be removed from office. >> meantime, a quiet killer had already arrived on america's shores. >> the first case of the fast-spreading coronavirus confirmed in the united states. >> by late january, trump moved to establishment a white house covid-19 task force and suspend most travel to and from china. >> foreign nationals who have travels in china will be denied entry into the united states. >> meanwhile, for the democrats, a crowded primary contest was winnowing do

joining me now, cnn's abby phillip and political commentator doug hyde. welcome to you both.eautiful tree behind you, doug. start with the covid relief bill now in jeopardy. there are real life deadlines that will determine whether people can see their families or pay rent. tomorrow, unemployment runs out for more than 12 million americans. on monday, the country faces a government shutdown. abby, any idea what the president is thinking or is everyone in the dark besides his circle? >> i think everyone is in the dark what is going on with president trump and what he intends to do here. the problem with last minute demand for $2,000 checks is there's no mechanism by which that could possibly happen in a timely fashion. there's no plan. i think right now it seems the president is holding the country hostage to the idea that he wants to have influence in the process that he could have had influence in several months ago but chose not to, now is trying to do it at the last second. >> and doug, not only as abby was mentioning, not only did trump stun even his own aides and party w

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. >> i want to bring in abby phillip and paul begala and scott jennings.ome are worried about president trump's visit to georgia, tomorrow, understandably. worried about what he might say and not say. do you think the potential benefit of having him there, revving up the base, outweighs the possible negatives? >> well, you know, it's hard to say. i think that it's important for the president to be there, if they're going to have even a shot at getting the kind of turnout they need. the president's rallies are really effective turnout mek mechanisms for the trump campaign and the republican party, in general. it gets thousands and thousands of people out of their homes, which is a huge -- i think it is ea huge endeavor, in any campaign, to simply get people to get up and go and do something. the problem is that president trump is very much focused on himself, at all times, as we all know. and his fixation on his own sense of grievance about the november election could totally turn this whole thing up, on its head. if he can't get focused, this weekend, enou

john avalon is out front now, cnn political analyst and abby philip is with us and our cnn political correspondent. abby, the president says it's rigged and flawed and all of these things that he knows to be false and he sends a liaison over to get access to this sensitive information and the doj bars trump's person from coming in. it's almost like this is scripted. so now the president's what? dangling to bill barr, oh, if you go find fraud now i won't fire you in the next 40 days? what's going on? >> it seems like, first of all, this liaison is someone who has been installed over at the justice department to essentially be the eyes and ears of the white house over in that building, and this person is clearly searching for something that is first of all, confidential in nature in dealing with ongoing investigations and these are not the types of things when documents ought to be floating around with the justice department and handed over to political appointees and this idea that they can just have someone hand over justice department documents is really kind of shocking in a lot of

a closer look at the role of the prime minister because in fact only a year ago the multi lingual abby ahmed with his mixed christian muslim background was being compared to nelson mandela barack obama seen as the bright hope of a country that has long been torn by ethnic conflict so how did the nobel peace laureate come to be involved in military conflict. pictures from the 1998 tens of thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands fled in the territorial dispute between ethiopia and eritrea. is also a soldier in this war. when he became prime minister in 2018 the political scientist embarked upon an unprecedented course of reform he extended his hand to eritrea for reconciliation and return to territories. liberalize the economy removed old officials met with leaders from partially divided ethnic groups . have celebrated by his followers and internationally hailed as a beacon of hope. for the nobel peace prize for 2019 to ethiopia the prime minister offered all day to the tide turns just one year later. began a military offensive in tikrit in the northern part of the coun

abbie was credited with bringing in from democratic reforms that's led some of those conflicts to start boiling over his drive to unify ethiopia has conflicted with growing demands the various ethnic groups who are seeking more autonomy when you are. in a country you have to find ways of making. right so i mean you know. you know unity. is likely to course more. is just what. the t.p. left dominated the government for nearly 30 years before abby took over one of the triggers of the conflict into gray was the postponement of elections that would you 4 months ago because of covert now they're expected to be held amid growing tensions in 2021 malcolm web al-jazeera the united states has continued to the 4th central americans back to their home countries this fight pleas from leaders for a pause during the coronavirus pandemic this year alone more than 20000 have been sent back they found conditions there are even worse than when they left as john home and now for ports. it's been a desperate homecoming for me gil said thought he was deported from the u.s. in september after 2 years of work

abby, first to you, what is going on here in your view? >> well, first of all, this is a president who is in the last gasps of his presidency and has been in a really unpredictable mood for quite some time. but he's also facing the real prospect that republicans on capitol hill are not going to do what he wants them to do. they're not going to be successful in stopping the electoral college vote, which has already happened, from basically becoming official and making joe biden the president-elect. and i do think that he's lashing out as mitch mcconnell and at republicans on capitol hill for that. you know, what's happening here is that he's now thrown uncertainty into this -- particularly the stimulus bill negotiations by giving nancy pelosi something that she really wanted and also putting republicans in the position of objecting to $2,000 in additional money for americans. and it's not going to go through not because democrats don't want it. they've been pushing for that all along but rather because republicans will object in the house,

joining me now, abby livingston and also sonam chef. unemployment is not the only aid in danger.end of this year, millions could face eviction. so what do you think is the president's motivation for holding up this bill when there is so much at stake and a mere amendment could have been enacted to increase from $600 to $2,000 about. >> some of the congressional speculation is this may be about anger at republicans in the senate who are not validating his false claims that he won this election. but i think that this illustrates one of the problems with trying to negotiate on twitter. anyone who has seen schoolhouse rock knows how hard it is to push a bill through congress. on top of that, you have a dysfunctional congress and you have congress over the holidays and they are all scattered across the country. and so coming in after the fact on something that the democratic majority on the house side agreed with is problematic. just can't come in after the fact and expect an immediate change. >> but these $600 relief checks, they hardly a surprise. lawmakers have been negotiating thi

good one, abby.o is back for something else that i think is on a lot of kids' minds. >> elmo's friend has a question about santa claus. >> how did santa get the vaccine? and is it safe for him to go in the house? >> how can santa claus safely give out presents with covid-19 spreading everywhere? how can he do it? >> will santa still be able to visit me in coronavirus season? what if he can't go to anyone's house or near his reindeer? >> well, i have to say i took care of that for you because i was worried that you'd all be upset so what i did a little while ago, i took a trip up there to the north pole, i went there and i vaccinated santa claus myself. i measured his level of immunity and he is good to go. he can come down the chimney. he can leave the presents. he can leave and you have nothing to worry about. santa claus is good to go. >> dr. fauci, you have made so many kids around the world so happy just now. dr. fauci, look. thank you so much for being with us today. i think we speak for everybo

let's discuss, abby. hunter biden's taxes under investigation by the u.s. attorney's office in delaware. he says that he has handled his affairs legally and appropriately hunter biden says. now, obviously, you heard evan perez talking about the investigation, about money laundering and money from china, a whole number of incidents taking place, including a very expensive gem that he received. what do you make of this all and will this cast a shadow over the transition and the biden presidency? >> well, i think the first thing that really strikes out at me is one of the things that evan said which is that the justice department actually did follow its own guidance and put this on hold for several months during the election in order to not adverse adversely interfere with the police station electi political election. i think it has the origined around the time that joe biden was running for president or beginning his run for president or thinking about it, and is now starting back up at a time when joe biden is about to be inaugurated. at the same time, as ha

. >>> abby, you heard the president-elect say he would not commit to specifically picking a person of color for secretary of defense or attorney general whenned asked by our own arlette saenz. >> reporter: >> reporter: looking at attorney general and the department of defense would you nominate a person of color to those positions? >> look. it's each one of these groups, jobs, to push their leaders to make sure there is greater adversity. i can promise you is when this is all said and done, you see everyone that i've announced and who is going to be in the next several weeks, we will it all out there. you'll see significant diversity. i'm not going to tell you now what i'm -- in any department but i promise you the single most diverse cabinet based on race, color, based on gender that has ever existed in the united states of america. >> i have to say it's not a very high bar in terms of the diversity of cabinets of the past with possibly the exception of the obama administration. do you bhak make of that. >> it's a tough situation he is in.>> it's a tough situation he in.make of that.

biden. >> i'm going to turn it over to abby phillip now. >> this is abby phillip here.g history yourself today. you are the first woman, the first woman of color in your state to cast a electoral college vote for a democrat. how did that feel today? how did you get to this point? >> if you would have told me two years ago when i started this journey that i would be in this seat, i wouldn't have believed you. but to get here, it was a lot of hard work and dedication and not just me. it was me and my counterparts. we worked really hard for this vote and able to be able to secure it for joe biden and kamala harris. it wasn't just me who did this but a lot of people behind the scenes and the fact that i was nominated and elected to be able to cost that vote it was even sweeter to come out and do that and then to make history. >> you talked about how it felt. we are all getting a civics lesson. a lot of people have not seen this, have not really understood or maybe not even thought much about how an elector is elected. how did that happen? i mean, you said you worked very ha

>> dickerson: last july, barb johnson's son max had a diabetic seizure and his girlfriend, abby, calledon's behalf, says the police didn't think it was diabetes but that max had been using drugs.>> johd abby cornered, continually asking her about drugs. um, telling her that, "if you-- you know, we don't want to rip your apartment apart. where are they?" >> dickerson: were drugs involved in any way or in? >> johnson: no. this was a seizure related to hypoglycemia. >> dikcerson: as max emerged from the seizure, confused, agitated and combative, records show paramedics gave him ketamine, a bad choice after seizures, according to his mother, a nurse. >> johnson: it's un-- unacceptable to me. you know, e.m.s. doesn't always have a reliable, accurate witness to tell them what's going on. these folks did. >> dickerson: his girlfriend, abby, watched as after two doses, max lost consciousness and was rushed to hennepin healthcare, the same facility where dr. jeffrey ho launched ketamine studies. max had to be put on a ventilator for two days, but ultimately recovered. hennepin healthcare decline

good to see you, abby. thank you very much. >>> i want to turn now to the latest on the coronavirus vaccines. this an area of good news in the county right now. millions of doses distributed and now the country just hit a milestone of 1 million people getting their first shots. still, it appears the roll-out is going slower than initially hoped. for that, let me bring in cnn's elizabeth cohen has this and much more. elizabeth, what is the very latest you're hearing about the pace and plan for the vaccine rollout today? >> so kate, if we look backwards there have been a million doses a million shots into arms in the past ten days. that's really a pretty amazing feat. i don't know that that has ever been done in this country. unfortunately federal health officials have created the impression with their comments over the past couple of months that there would be 20 million shots in arms by the end of the week. so again, 1 million in the past ten days, getting 19 million in the next week. you would have to be s

>> these are the conversations we always have, abby, with each other, health providers talking about this very issue. when you're in the hospital and you're taking care of patients, you do everything you can to be safe. you're wearing n-95 masks if in covid areas or dealing with covid patients. people are really -- there is a real sense of trying to be as safe as possible. but despite that, you always worry that you could have still been exposed and that you might get sick. the vaccine will certainly help with diminishing that concern, but the other part of it, i think, you know, that's been a big part of this psychologically, is that you would then take it home. i operate every week, and every time i come home from the hospital, there's always a part of me that wonders, am i possibly bringing the virus home with me this time? i'll put all my clothes away, i'll shower, i'll do all those things, but you still can't be 100% sure. as we were talking about before, as you know, abby, the vaccine doesn't necessarily 100% make it so that you can't possibly still carry the virus and possibly

with >> iowa representative abby finkenauer is one of a handful of swing -- freshman from swing districts defeated in the 2020 elections, she won her seat by a wide margin in 2018, but lost this year to republican ashley henson. here is her farewell address. congress returns next week to -- vote on president trump's veto setting military pay programs and policy for the next year, president trump objected to a provision to remove confederate names from military installations and he wanted to eliminate social media company protections that were added to the bill. congressional leaders are still working on federal spending before the government shuts down monday night and house democrats will try to increase covid-19 stimulus checks. $600 perapproved individual, president trump called for $2000 after the bill passed and democrats will try to make that happen when congress returns next week. live house coverage here on c-span, watch the senate live on c-span2. >> monday night on the communicators, president of the telemedicine association talks about the growth of the telemedicine industry du